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Solution Architect

Optimal Solutions Inc

Oct 10
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Senior Level Career (10+ yrs experience)
Occasional travel
Business - Support

Job Title: Solution Architect
Position Type: Full-Time
Location: This is a remote position. Prefer candidates from Northern Virginia, Washington DC or Maryland. Occasional travel as needed.
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Position Overview: We are seeking an experienced Solution Architect to join our corporate team. This role is critical in shaping technical solutions, engaging with customers, driving proposal development, and supporting business development (BD) and capture activities. The Solution Architect will work closely with capture managers, proposal teams, and technical subject matter experts (SMEs) to lead the design of innovative, compliant, and competitive solutions that align with customer requirements and corporate capabilities. The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise with strong business acumen and proven experience in Federal and Defense contracting.
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Key Responsibilities

Technical Solutioning & Architecture
• Lead the design of innovative, scalable, and cost-effective technical solutions for proposals, RFIs, and Sources Sought responses.
• Translate customer requirements into architectures that leverage corporate strengths and industry best practices.
• Ensure solutions are executable, compliant, and aligned with emerging technologies and customer mission needs.
• Collaborate with SMEs, partner companies, and program teams to integrate past performance and technical differentiators into solutions.
Proposal & Capture Support
• Serve as the lead technical writer for proposals, ensuring clarity, compliance, and compelling narratives.
• Drive solutioning sessions and contribute to win strategies, discriminators, and technical approaches.
• Participate in color team reviews (Pink, Red, Gold), providing constructive feedback to strengthen technical volumes.
• Support capture managers in developing technical strategies, solution roadmaps, and partner engagement approaches.

Business Development & Market Engagement
• Participate in Industry Days, customer forums, and other customer engagement opportunities to gather intelligence, shape requirements, and align solutions with customer needs.
• Build and maintain relationships with Large Business primes, teaming partners, and industry collaborators.
• Independently identify and qualify opportunities, bringing them into the pipeline and aligning them with corporate strategy.
• Actively support pipeline management, including opportunity qualification, gate reviews, and bid/no-bid decisions.
• Contribute to strategic growth by analyzing market trends, customer missions, and the competitive landscape.
• Develop and deliver white papers, capability statements, and thought leadership materials to showcase corporate capabilities.

Internal Collaboration & Leadership
• Partner with pricing, contracts, and delivery teams to ensure solutions are executable and cost-effective.
• Mentor SMEs and technical contributors in proposal solutioning and writing best practices.
• Promote knowledge sharing across programs and capture efforts to strengthen overall corporate technical positioning.
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Qualifications
Required:
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 8+ years of experience in solution architecture, technical capture, or related roles within the Federal contracting space.
• Demonstrated experience leading technical solutioning and writing winning proposals.
• Strong knowledge of federal acquisition processes (RFI, RFP, Sources Sought, etc.).
• Experience working with technical proposal development and review processes.
• Excellent technical writing, communication, and presentation skills.
• Proven ability to engage with customers, partners, and internal teams to drive solution strategies.
Preferred:
• Master’s degree in a related field.
• Experience with cloud architectures, cybersecurity, AI/ML, data analytics, enterprise IT modernization, or related domains.
• Familiarity with Shipley or capture/proposal methodologies.
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Optimal Solutions, Inc. (OSI) is a small, disadvantaged business and certified Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) for Development (DEV) Level 3, International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9001:2015, and ISO 27001:2013. It is a business that provides Information Technology services and solutions to the Federal Government. Established in 2009 and headquartered in Herndon, Virginia, OSI takes great pride in successfully supporting the Department of Defense – US Army; US Space Force; DISA; Departments of State, Homeland Security, and Interior. We are a pure-play Agile development firm and an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Public Sector Select Tier Partner. OSI brings extensive experience in Agile Project Management, Software and Cloud Engineering, Microservices Architecture, expertise managing containerized applications on-premises, and Cloud using Kubernetes, modernizing monolithic applications, and migrating workloads to GovCloud by implementing a successful DevSecOps pipe

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