Solution Architect (MS)

Primary responsibilities: 


•    Collaborate with product/solution owners, business teams, and analysts to help translate business strategies and requirements into solution architectures and application roadmaps.


•    Define and document target architectures and patterns for enterprise applications.


•    Support end to end solution design for major initiatives, ensuring consistency with enterprise architecture principles, security policies, and infrastructure standards.


•    Work closely with system engineers and infrastructure/support teams to design resilient, observable, and performant cloud hosting, networking, and integration models.


•    Support the development and maintenance of cloud adoption roadmaps, migration strategies, and reference architectures for key business capabilities and platforms.


•    Provide technical leadership and guidance to engineering and DevOps teams on architecture best practices, automation, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code.


•    Partner with security and compliance teams to ensure solutions meet regulatory, data protection, and identity/access management requirements.


•    Review solution designs, integration approaches, and implementation plans produced by delivery teams, providing feedback and approvals.


•    Support the creation and maintenance of clear architecture artifacts, including diagrams, standards, and decision records for cross team consumption.


•    Lead the implementation of approved solution designs.


•    Work with technical staff to help document the “as-is” environment.


Job Requirements:


•    8+ years overall IT experience, 


•    5+ years’ experience in software, systems, or cloud engineering, including 2+ years as a Solution/Cloud Architect in enterprise environments.


•    Proven experience designing and implementing solutions in Azure; multi cloud experience desired.


•    Strong understanding of cloud architecture concepts: virtual networking, security, identity, storage, data protection, high availability, and disaster recovery.


•    Hands on knowledge of modern application architectures (APIs, microservices, containers, serverless, event driven patterns) and integration approaches.


•    Familiarity with infrastructure as code and automation tools (such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, or similar).


•    Experience working with or within enterprise architecture, collaborating with multiple domains (applications, data, infrastructure, security).


•    Knowledge of Agile, DevSecOps, or ITIL environments.


•    Experience running workshops or interviews with technical staff to gather content.


•    Ability to operate in ambiguous environments, perform discovery, and propose a structured plan to get from “unknown current state” to a well-documented capability.


•    Strong communication skills capable of communicating technical concepts to senior leadership and customer stakeholders.


•    Ability to work independently and collaboratively with cross functional teams.


Education and Certifications


Required: Active Secret Clearance

Desired: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, or a related field

Desired: Cloud+

Desired: Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals

Desired: Microsoft Certified: Azure Admin Associate

Desired: Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert

Desired: CISSP-ISSAP



All work to be performed in Hampton Roads area. Hybrid work from home, at customer site in Suffolk, corporate offices in Virginia Beach and Chesapeake, VA. 


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