IT Principal Architect - Solution Architect

Description & Requirements

Maximus is seeking a Director, Solution Architect.

The candidate will be a Lead for solution architecture and estimation with a focus on business process and technical services domain.

The candidate is expected to work across the opportunity lifecycle and own the top-down estimate as a component of prize to win and competitive solutioning efforts including supporting Blackhat reviews.

The candidate should have experience with USS (US State) and Federal proposal processes including competitive reviews, estimation, pricing, and compliance.

The candidate must have a can-do attitude and be a go-getter when it comes to innovative approaches to solution and estimation.

This is a remote position.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Design and develop specific solutions leveraging technologies and design practices that enable a scalable, extensible and flexible solution.
- Develop and provide presentations and demonstrations of technology solutions to both internal and external stakeholders as needed.
- Extend and partner with internal/external resources to identify and contribute to continuous improvements of open source projects across multiple open source technologies/projects.

- Engage with internal teams to understand and architect technical solutions, facilitate solutions design and manage implementations.

- Collaborate with delivery teams to ensure solutions can be effectively implemented by operations teams.
- Mentor Solution Architects and integrate contributions across the team.

Provide guidance, coaching, and training to technical employees across the company.
- Interface with pricing and delivery teams to ensure solution viability and cost realism.
- Lead major solution components or technical volumes as part of a capture team.
- Translate client requirements into viable solution elements and architecture views.
- Lead large complex initiatives of strategic importance to the organization, which involve large cross-functional teams.

- Work closely with business leaders, customers, or other stakeholders to understand priorities and constraints.

Facilitate collaboration across organizations and act as a bridge between technical teams and non-technical stakeholders.

- Work directly with customers to understand their needs and design tailored solutions.

Build trust and credibility through consistent delivery and transparency.

- Help guide teams through technology transitions.

Support training and adoption efforts to ensure successful implementation.

- Review, guide and support RFIs, RFPs and RFQs, response development including writing of whitepapers and concept development.
- Provide technical solution support during proposal process, to include technology stack, solution architecture, and implementation methodology.

Responsible for technology solution bid competitive analysis as it relates to how industry competitors approach technical solution pricing, trends in awards (best value vs LPTA), supportin...