Solutions Architect

Job Description

Description

SAIC is looking for a Solution Architect responsible for supporting one or more solution delivery areas and/or core capabilities within a large government organization. This is a hybrid position supporting our CBP customer. Onsite requirements for this role can fluctuate, but a minimum of 2-4 days per month onsite is anticipated.

The Solution Architect will collaborate across multiple teams and branches to align strategies and to create roadmaps, architectural documents, process documents, and governance documents that define the strategy. As needed, the Solution Architect will review projects to adjust and align them with architectural governance policies. The Solution Architect may also contribute to hands-on development, peer reviews, and support development strategies. They may also research, analyze, and document various tools, technology, framework, and other architectural related topics, as needed.

Responsibilities:

• Lead strategic planning activities and business case development within government agency and across internal organizations.

• Work with architects, technical leads, project managers, and stakeholders to develop and review roadmaps in support of solution delivery domain and core capabilities.

• Previous experience as a full-stack developer is desired. Capable of hands-on contributions that range from client development of markup and styling to Operating System (OS) level services, and server-side containers and database technologies.

• Lend support in the design and development of .NET applications including OS level services, ASP.NET web services, and server-side hosted services.

• Provides technical oversight for technical estimates created with standards tools, portfolio Work Breakdown Structures, statements of work, and industry standard estimating techniques.

• Support one or more solution delivery areas, engaging in team organization and project meetings, including Agile SCRUM and SAFe practices such as team's daily stand-ups and Program Increment Planning, as well as customer demonstrations and discussions.

• Help present roadmap and project requirements to stakeholders, technical lead, and project management. Also provide support in the program increment planning of objectives and epics; and in the creation of stories and tasks for backlog grooming and sprint planning, ensuring the projects are aligned in roadmap objectives.

• Architect's complete solutions using appropriate government agency offerings with design elements that allow integration into client environment.

• Refine and optimize architectures at varying stages. Review architecture work produced by junior architects.

• Provide solution delivery teams project oversight and act as a subject matter expert, acting as proxy for government stakeholder to ensure accuracy and quality of delivered processes, products, product configuration, solution integration, implementation methodologies, resource requirements, and implementation timelines.

• Interfaces to all levels of the client's organization on solution implementation progress, technical issues, proper practices, and technical requirements.

• Collaborates with architect peers to efficiently resolve design issues, improve design quality, and