Cloud Solutions Architect

Responsibilities

• Serve as the principal cloud solution strategist during federal capture and proposal efforts, translating mission requirements and evaluation criteria into winning, market‐aligned architectures and technical narratives.
• Partner closely with business development, capture managers, proposal managers, and executive stakeholders to define discriminators, win themes, solution storylines, and customer‐aligned messaging for proposals and orals.
• Lead development of technical proposal artifacts—including architecture diagrams, technical volumes, briefings, compliance matrices, and oral presentation content.
• Advise internal teams on cloud strategy, modernization pathways, etc.
• Facilitate technical solution reviews to ensure proposed architectures are innovative, compliant, and aligned with evolving government mandates.

Requirements

• 15+ years of related experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Experience architecting cloud solutions, strong emphasis on solution design, technical strategy, and pre‐sales or proposal support.
• Proven expertise in cloud‐native architectures and AWS services such as Lambda, ECS/EKS, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Step Functions, EventBridge, Bedrock, SageMaker, and Amazon Q.
• Strong understanding of DevSecOps concepts, CI/CD pipelines, policy‐as‐code, and infrastructure‐as‐code tools (e.g., Terraform/CloudFormation).
• Knowledge of federal compliance frameworks (NIST 800-53, NIST 800-171, FedRAMP, DoD).
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly and persuasively to technical and non‐technical audiences.
• Strong analytical and problem‐solving skills.