Solution Architect

🕒 September 3

⚔️ Virginia – Remote

⚔️ Virginia – Remote

💵 $150k - $215k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

💻 Solutions Engineer

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Systems Planning & Analysis

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1001 - 5000 employees

📦 Logistics

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

Logistics • Healthcare • Consulting

Systems Planning & Analysis is dedicated to enhancing national security through innovative data-driven analysis and technical engineering services. With a rich history of over 50 years, SPA addresses complex challenges faced by government clients, particularly in defense intelligence and homeland security. The company excels in areas such as AI/ML and decision analytics, systems engineering, and modeling and simulation, providing vital support for national security programs across multiple domains.

📋 Description

• Define scalable solution architectures for a modern federal health data platform spanning cloud, on-premises, and government-hosted environments • Translate mission, business, data, security, and operational requirements into technical designs and implementation strategies • Develop current-state and target-state architectures for incremental modernization of legacy data systems and capabilities • Design integration approaches across disparate defense and federal systems, including APIs, pipelines, shared services, and reusable data products • Establish reference architectures, integration patterns, technical standards, and architectural guardrails • Evaluate architectural options based on security, scalability, performance, reliability, maintainability, cost, and delivery risk • Guide effective use of Databricks and cloud services across AWS, Azure, Oracle Cloud, and hybrid infrastructure • Account for data quality, governance, metadata, lineage, access, and lifecycle requirements in platform and solution designs • Lead technical discovery and architecture discussions with engineers, technical leaders, customers, and mission stakeholders • Produce and maintain architecture diagrams, interface definitions, design documentation, decision records, and technical roadmaps • Partner with Data Engineers and Technical Leads to review solution designs and resolve complex technical challenges • Identify architectural dependencies, constraints, and risks and drive them toward resolution • Communicate architectural decisions, tradeoffs, and recommendations to technical and nontechnical audiences • Promote reusable patterns, lessons learned, and technical guidance across teams to grow the shared data platform ecosystem

🎯 Requirements

• Active Secret clearance • Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or a related field • 10+ years of experience in solutions architecture, data architecture, software architecture, platform engineering, data engineering, or a related technical field • Experience designing complex enterprise data platforms or distributed solutions spanning multiple systems, applications, data sources, and organizational boundaries • Strong understanding of modern data platform concepts, including data ingestion, integration, transformation, storage, access, APIs, and data products • Experience designing hybrid solutions spanning public cloud, on-premises infrastructure, and government data centers • Experience architecting platforms supporting very large or highly complex datasets • Experience integrating modern platforms with legacy systems and developing incremental modernization strategies • Strong understanding of API design, system integration patterns, and data exchange approaches • Experience architecting solutions on AWS, with familiarity with Microsoft Azure or Oracle Cloud • Working knowledge of data modeling, metadata, lineage, data quality, and data governance principles • Ability to incorporate security, availability, performance, scalability, reliability, maintainability, and operational support requirements into technical designs • Experience evaluating technology options and documenting architecture diagrams, reference architectures, interface designs, technical roadmaps, and key technical decisions • Experience guiding engineering teams through implementation of complex technical designs • Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices, development lifecycles, and Git-based workflows • Strong client-facing communication and facilitation skills • Ability to translate mission and business needs into actionable technical direction • Ability to independently navigate ambiguity, identify cross-cutting technical risks, and drive complex architectural decisions toward resolution • Desired: Experience with Databricks, Apache Spark, or similar modern data platforms • Desired: Experience with Palantir Foundry, Advana, or similar DoW data environments • Desired: Experience supporting federal health or other regulated and sensitive data environments • Desired: Experience with DoW or other federal systems and government security, compliance, authorization, and data-handling requirements • Desired: Experience with federal health, financial, or other regulated and sensitive data • Desired: Experience designing AI/ML-enabled components, evaluating build-versus-buy and cost tradeoffs, and accounting for applicable federal AI guidance

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive base pay • Variable compensation opportunities • Health insurance • Flexible spending accounts • Health savings accounts • Retirement savings plans • Life insurance • Disability insurance • Paid time away from work • Unpaid time away from work