Solutions Architect

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🦀 Maryland – Remote

🦀 Maryland – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

💻 Solutions Engineer

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SES Corporation

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51 - 200 employees

💼 Consulting

🎖️ Defense

🏥 Healthcare

Consulting • Defense • Healthcare

SES Corporation is an IT consulting services firm specializing in systems engineering solutions. With a focus on collaboration and problem-solving, SES is trusted by leadership and personnel across both government and commercial sectors to handle complex enterprise challenges. The company offers a wide range of services, including IT modernization, integrated security, managed services, and process optimization. SES prides itself on being home to top engineering experts and offers ongoing professional development and advanced training to its employees.

📋 Description

• Analyze business, mission, operational, technical, security, compliance, and stakeholder requirements. • Facilitate discussions with stakeholders to clarify objectives, constraints, assumptions, priorities, and expected outcomes. • Evaluate completeness, feasibility, and implementation implications of proposed requirements. • Translate business needs into actionable solution requirements and architectural considerations. • Assess current-state business, application, data, platform, infrastructure, and operational capabilities. • Identify capability gaps, process deficiencies, technology limitations, organizational constraints, and modernization opportunities. • Determine whether existing enterprise capabilities can satisfy stakeholder requirements. • Document findings and develop recommendations for addressing identified gaps and deficiencies. • Develop solution concepts and candidate approaches addressing business needs and capability gaps. • Evaluate alternatives and analyze benefits, risks, dependencies, implementation complexity, operational impacts, and costs. • Facilitate analysis of alternatives, trade studies, and decision-support activities. • Recommend approaches balancing mission value, technical feasibility, organizational readiness, and sustainability. • Develop decision-ready recommendations with objective analysis and documented rationale. • Communicate benefits, tradeoffs, constraints, risks, assumptions, and implementation considerations. • Support working groups, review boards, architecture governance processes, and executive decision forums. • Assist leadership in understanding competing solution approaches before resource commitments. • Assist project and program teams in translating approved solutions into implementation plans. • Identify dependencies, sequencing considerations, resource requirements, organizational impacts, and transition needs. • Support deployment, adoption, operations, sustainment, and continuous improvement planning. • Reduce implementation risk by identifying technical, organizational, and operational challenges early. • Serve as a bridge among requirements analysis, enterprise architecture, platform architecture, engineering organizations, and business stakeholders.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Systems Engineering, Engineering, Business Information Systems, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience. • At least 12 years of experience supporting solution architecture, systems engineering, enterprise architecture, business analysis, service design, technology modernization, or related technology transformation initiatives. • Experience analyzing business, mission, operational, technical, security, compliance, and organizational requirements and translating those requirements into actionable solution approaches. • Demonstrated experience assessing current-state capabilities, identifying capability gaps, evaluating constraints, and developing recommendations that align business needs with technical realities. • Experience developing conceptual, logical, and physical solution architectures spanning applications, data, infrastructure, platforms, cybersecurity, integration services, and operational capabilities. • Experience conducting gap assessments, root cause analysis, business process analysis, capability assessments, and solution evaluations within complex enterprise environments. • Experience evaluating solution alternatives and performing trade studies that consider business value, implementation complexity, organizational readiness, supportability, risk, lifecycle costs, and long-term sustainability. • Experience identifying opportunities to leverage existing enterprise capabilities, shared services, platforms, and reusable architectural patterns to satisfy stakeholder requirements. • Experience supporting intake, discovery, requirements elicitation, stakeholder engagement, solution assessments, and decision-support activities across multiple business and technology domains. • Experience formulating recommendations supported by technical analysis, business considerations, operational impacts, implementation constraints, and strategic objectives. • Experience working closely with enterprise architects, platform architects, engineers, cybersecurity teams, operations organizations, service owners, program managers, and business stakeholders. • Experience developing architecture artifacts, capability assessments, gap analyses, solution recommendations, decision papers, implementation roadmaps, and executive-level briefings. • Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain complex concepts, alternatives, risks, dependencies, and recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences. • Preferred: Experience supporting engineering and operations, working groups, platform teams, Architecture Review Boards, Technology Review Boards, governance forums, investment reviews, or comparable decision-making bodies. • Preferred: Experience conducting capability assessments, gap analyses, Analysis of Alternatives, trade studies, modernization assessments, technology evaluations, and business case development. • Preferred: Experience supporting enterprise modernization, digital transformation, cloud migration, service delivery improvement, platform rationalization, or technology lifecycle management initiatives. • Preferred: Experience facilitating stakeholder workshops, requirements sessions, architecture reviews, operational assessments, and executive decision-support activities. • Preferred: Experience developing business capability models, process flows, service blueprints, solution roadmaps, transition plans, implementation strategies, or modernization plans. • Preferred: Experience supporting large-scale, geographically distributed, mission-critical, highly available, or regulated enterprise environments. • Preferred: Experience identifying opportunities to improve interoperability, reduce redundancy, strengthen service delivery, and optimize technology investments. • Preferred: Professional certifications in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, business analysis, systems engineering, project management, IT service management, cloud architecture, or related disciplines. • Experience working across infrastructure, networking, cloud platforms, enterprise applications, software development, data and analytics, cybersecurity, service management, and systems integration. • Familiarity with Agile delivery methodologies, requirements management, backlog prioritization, roadmap development, and iterative solution delivery. • Familiarity with one or more major cloud service providers and associated enterprise services, including commercial and government cloud environments. • Familiarity with CI/CD, version control, automation, configuration management, and release management practices. • Familiarity with enterprise architecture, modeling, and visualization tools such as Sparx Enterprise Architect, Visio, ArchiMate, or comparable platforms. • Familiarity with performance analysis, capacity planning, monitoring, observability, reporting, and operational analytics capabilities. • Familiarity with architecture frameworks, capability modeling, business architecture, service architecture, systems engineering, and decision-support methodologies.

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical • Dental • Vision • AD&D • STD • LTD • Company paid Life Insurance • 401k with employer contribution • Paid Time Off • Pet Insurance