Required Qualifications:
Active Secret clearance or higher
12+ years of professional experience with five years or more of Architect experience
Bachelor's degree or higher in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a closely related technical field. Four years of professional experience may be substituted for a Bachelor's degree.
Strong customer and stakeholder engagement skills including demonstrated success in facilitating solution architecture design and planning.
Experience partnering directly with PMO/Program Leadership to integrate architecture into budget planning, contract strategy, and vendor management approaches.
Experience conducting prototype or pilot efforts to validate solution approaches prior to enterprise rollout.
Demonstrated ability to architect solutions that account for sustainment, O&M cost optimization, and lifecycle cost estimation.
Demonstrated success resolving architectural disputes across diverse stakeholder groups using structured decision frameworks (e.g., trade studies).
Strong written and oral communication and leadership skills with demonstrated success in leading technical leadership and teams.
Experience collaborating with non-technical customers, senior leadership, and cross-functional teams including UX Design, Product Management, and other Engineering and Operations functions to design and deliver high-quality solutions.
Experience mentoring engineering teams on architectural patterns, emerging technologies, and solution engineering best practices.
Understanding and hands-on experience supporting federal government IT requirements including cybersecurity risk management processes and controls.
Experience in leading development of common technical architecture documentation artifacts.
Strong engineering background, including expertise in 3 or more of the areas below Software Design and Development
Software Delivery and Operations
System Engineering
Cybersecurity Engineering and Assurance
Infrastructure services and operations
Cloud infrastructure and services
#TechModernization.
Preferred Qualifications:
Deep understanding of Azure cloud services and related low-code solutions
Experience designing and migrating to cloud-native system architectures
Experience in ServiceNow platform application development and integration
Ability to design architectures supporting advanced analytics, ML/Ops readiness, and enterprise‐scale data ingestion pipelines
Experience integrating architectural practices with agile development methodologies
Experience with designing solutions for classified environments, including secure data integration and bidirectional transfers across different security domains
Knowledge of DevSecOps principles and practices for secure development
Experience with formal Enterprise and System Architecture methodologies and modeling frameworks such as UAF, TOGAF, Arcadia, ArchiMate, and SysMLv2
Experience leading projects applying formal System Engineering practices
Experience designing distributed systems, APIs, integrations, and cloud-native applications
Experience supporting system verification activities
Experience designing and operationalizing Generative AI–enabled capabilities within enterprise environments, including integrating LLM‐based services into production workflows, establishing governance and safety controls, and aligning AI-driven solution patterns with enterprise architecture standards
Relevant certifications such as Azure Professional Certifications, such as Azure Solutions Architect Expert
Enterprise Architect or Systems Engineering certifications
SAFe® certifications
ServiceNow certifications such as Certified Technical Architect or Certified Master Architect preferred
JOB TITLE: Secret Cleared End-to-End Solution Architect
JOB LOCATION: DC Metro Area
WAGE RANGE*: $115-120/hr.
JOB NUMBER: 26-00939
JOB DESCRIPTION: Our client is seeking an End-to-End Solution Architect with a strong engineering background, customer-facing communication skills, and a history of experience supporting large-scale systems design and implementations. This role serves as the architectural leader for a large-scale system modernization effort for one of our Federal Civilian customers and will involve guiding the effort to develop, maintain, and implement a future-state solution architecture and roadmap to meet customer mission and operational objectives and needs.
Key Responsibilities:
Coordinate with customers, stakeholders, program functions, and technical teams on architecture design and implementation
Understand needs and capability gaps and develop associated architectural vision and solution strategies.
Develop and maintain the target architecture and technology roadmap.
Align multiple efforts and functions to effectively integrate systems, processes, and plans to meet evolving needs.
Design and own end-to-end solution architecture that meets customer mission and operational objectives, needs, and requirements.
Identify secure, robust, flexible, and efficient solutions.
Define a concept of operations and the procedures and tools required to enable delivery of associated products and services.
Integrate system architecture considerations and support activities across system lifecycle.
Define system boundaries, interfaces, dependencies, and data flows.
Guide and validate architecture decisions.
Lead identification and evaluation of solution options through structured analysis of alternatives methods.
Provide input to program risk management activities.
Incorporate human factors, human-system-integration, and organizational change considerations into target architecture implementation planning.
Govern architecture compliance across the project and change management processes
Define architecture frameworks, guidance, and best practices to be used.
Establish and maintain an architecture governance framework, including an architecture review process.
Provide architectural review of engineering deliverables and packages.
Create and maintain authoritative architecture deliverables that clearly communicate architectures and implementations plans for various audiences and levels of abstraction.
Present solutions and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders to foster shared understanding and obtain buy-in.
Develop technical documentation and briefing materials to support engineering, operations, and other needs
Ensure all documentation is accurate, current, and accessible to engineering and operations teams
Equal opportunity employer as to all protected groups, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities
* While an hourly range is posted for this position, an eventual hourly rate is determined by a comprehensive salary analysis which considers multiple factors including but not limited to: job-related knowledge, skills and qualifications, education and experience as compared to others in the organization doing substantially similar work, if applicable, and market and business considerations. Benefits offered include medical, dental and vision benefits; dependent care flexible spending account; 401(k) plan; voluntary life/short term disability/whole life/term life/accident and critical illness coverage; employee assistance program; sick leave in accordance with regulation. Benefits may be subject to generally applicable eligibility, waiting period, contribution, and other requirements and conditions. Benefits offered are in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws and subject to change at TCM's discretion.