Solutions Expert

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a Solutions Architect. GDIT is seeking a Solutions Architect to provide technical leadership and support in the areas of growth/proposals, and solution specification/design for our State and Local Sector. You will need to possess strong knowledge of information technology and commercial solutions; and have significant experience designing and developing technical solutions in multiple disciplines, like data center, application development, cloud, and cyber security. You will also need to have a proven track record of large, complex proposal delivery, excellent communications skills, a strong customer service orientation, and experience leading solutions for growth opportunities.

HOW SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT WILL MAKE AN IMPACT:

• Lead winning solution development for growth opportunities
• Perform solution scans and designing and estimating the cost of technical solutions that satisfy the requirements of growth opportunities
• Act as technical liaison between customer technical points of contact and GDIT project staff to facilitate IT strategic planning
• Work with business area directors and other division growth solution architects to develop and grow our technical enterprise
• Support GDIT’s Innovate Everywhere strategy and develop teams to support smaller business area lead growth opportunities
• Provide thought leadership and technical support to assist business areas and programs in retaining and growing both new and current work
• Provide business area sector and leadership feedback by measuring the success of delivery and organic growth initiatives
• Coordinate “reach back” with technical subject matter experts (SME) within GDIT to obtain specific knowledge or expertise to address technical issues
• Respond to technical questions and research requests from customers and programs
• Perform business case analysis to support decision making process
• Build and maintain relationships across all GDIT business units to ensure alignment with program capture, program execution, and other line of business services
• Understand impact of internal decisions on customer and vendor relationships
• Build and maintain relationships with key vendor partners to incorporate technology and capability sector growth pipelines
• Actively identify, monitor, and incorporate industry and vend
• Balance the resource assignments of team to support volume of opportunities within the assigned sector

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree with 15+ years’ experience in Information Technology. In lieu of degree, 19+ years of experience in Information Technology.
• 5+ years’ experience creating solutions for government proposals, including all layers of the IT stack
• Strong knowledge of information technology and creating solutions for state and local government proposals, including all layers of the IT stack
• Clearance: None required
• Location:  This position can be 100% remote with the potential need for travel during proposal development activities when required
• Experience implementing or developing solutions for state and local government programs and proposals across multiple technical areas, example areas follow:
  • Agile & Lean principles & methodologies for application development
  • No code/low code iBPM and/or CRM solutions
  • ITSM Automation & Orchestration
  • Big data analytics, data warehousing, data lake
  • Machine Learning & AI
  • Large scale cloud migration (application, data, infrastructure)
  • Next-gen cyber defense capabilities (e.g. proactive threat detection & automated response)
• Strong knowledge of government procurement and proposal processes
• Experience developing lifecycle cost estimates for technical solutions

SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Ability to work independently or part of a cross functional team
• Ability to lead projects, provide technical oversight, and ensure alignment is with our strategic goals and objectives
• Maintain technical proficiency by keeping current with the latest technologies, trends, standards, and products
• Strong communication, presentation, facilitation and writing skills
• Customer service oriented

The likely salary range for this position is $152,000 - $228,000, this is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary; rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

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