IT Principal Solutions Architect

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.

Solution Strategy & Innovation

• Lead solution design and strategy for high-priority government pursuits

• Define technical win themes and differentiators for competitive proposals

• Incorporate capabilities from Maximus Accelerators and reusable components

• Drive innovation through emerging technologies and industry best practices

• Conduct competitive analysis and develop strategies to address market trends

• Lead solution reviews with executives and subject matter experts

Technical Leadership & Business Alignment

• Design scalable, extensible solutions leveraging cutting-edge technologies

• Lead RFI, RFP, and RFQ response development including whitepaper creation

• Develop estimation models and solution pricing strategies

• Collaborate with capture managers to shape opportunities pre-RFP

• Mentor junior architects and provide technical guidance across teams

• Ens...