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Solution Architect

GDIT Chantilly, VA On-site senior full-time

Salary

$195,240 - $264,148 per year

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Description

We are seeking a Solution Architect to join our team at GDIT, working on a large-scale, pioneering National Intelligence program. As a Solution Architect, you will play a strategic, high-impact role at the IDIQ level, embedded within the PMO and serving as the lead architect across multiple task orders and product lines.

Responsibilities:

  • Serve as the single, trusted focal point for application portfolio rationalization across the IDIQ, driving consistency and alignment among multiple projects and teams
  • Provide architectural leadership across multiple task orders and product lines, ensuring solutions are cohesive, scalable, and aligned with enterprise priorities
  • Proactively identify opportunities to consolidate and modernize applications, reduce technical duplication, and simplify the technical environment
  • Evaluate and recommend emerging and existing technologies that improve performance, security, user experience, and mission outcomes for the customer
  • Guard against the adoption of competing or redundant technologies by driving alignment to an enterprise-wide vision and standards
  • Lead and influence the implementation of the Sponsor’s unified systems roadmap across product lines, systems, and services at the IDIQ level
  • Ensure solutions consistently comply with Sponsor standards, architectures, and long-term strategies, while balancing innovation with risk and cost
  • Help shape and execute our strategy for integrating AI-enabled tools and capabilities into the development lifecycle

Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent experience
  • TS/SCI with Poly
  • 10+ years of experience in software development, DevOps, or platform engineering roles
  • 5+ years of experience as a solutions architect
  • 3+ years of experience leading multiple teams across task orders, or similar leadership role
  • Demonstrated experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines for complex applications
  • Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools, source control and branching strategies, cloud platforms, containerization and orchestration, serverless architectures, infrastructure as Code, and DevSecOps practices
  • Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills

Benefits:

  • Medical plan options
  • Dental plan options
  • Vision plan
  • 401(k) plan with company match
  • Paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave
  • Short and long-term disability benefits
  • Life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance

Skills

Required

Nice to have

  • AWS/Azure/GCP Architect or DevOps Engineer
  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
  • DevOps or Agile certifications
  • Security certifications
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