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As a Solution Architect supporting a mission-critical Financial Systems Modernization program for a state agency, you will create a technical vision for resolving critical business problems. You will provide business and technical architectural guidance to development teams, business groups, and customers for existing and new products and services.

A typical day includes

• Identifying technologies based on business and technical criteria, and recommending proposed solution
• Analyzing alternatives based on project timeline, project budget, and scope of work
• Developing proof-of-concept to validate proposed solution
• Prepareing and presenting technical solution to program stakeholders and GDIT management
• Documenting, designing, debuging, and conducting performance analysis of proof-of-concept or the proposed solution
• Technical leadership across different technology domains throughout the project lifecycle
• Acting as a liaison between business team and technical team mapping business objectives to the technical solution
• Proactively communicating with GDIT management on benefits of new technologies to make key program decision
• Research on current and emerging technologies and process methodologies and proposes changes and tailoring where needed
• Assessesing the system and technical architectures currently in place and works with staff to recommend improvements
• Working with technical teams to deliver efficient and effective technical solutions to support business goals and objectives
• Identifying customer requirements, analyzes alternatives, and conducts product recommendations related to software, platform, and network configurations
• Providing updates to GDIT stakeholders on project cost, schedule, and quality in comparison to stakeholder objectives
• Mentoring and coaching junior team member. May serve as a team or task lead

WHAT YOU'LL NEED:

Required:

• BA/BS in technology (Computer, Electrical, Electronics), or equivalent
• 10+ years of experience in core computing disciplines (e.g., Compute, Network, Storage, Security, Database Architecture, Programming)
• Experience in presenting solutions to the executive management
• 7+ years' experience in designing and implementing enterprise applications
• 3+ years' experience in designing technical solution on major cloud services (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Supervisory or project management experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with major cloud platforms such as Amazon and Microsoft
• Experience configuring highly available infrastructure environments including security, application services, data services and interfaces
• Configuring Workflows and Business rules using low code platforms
• Integration using Representational State Transfer (REST) Application Programming Interfaces
• Prior experience with containerization and associated toolsets
• Prior experience with relational databases, preferably Oracle and/or DB2
• Prior experience in agile development environments

Outstanding Candidates

• Handle demanding situations with clarity, focus and professionalism, and to respond quickly to quick turnaround taskers.
• Resolve issues with little oversight; ability to gather and analyze information skillfully and develop alternative solutions
• Exercise excellent oral and written communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to communicate complex topics to management and other stakeholders
• Have strong interpersonal skills to collaborate with customers and internal cross-functional teams
• Work independently as well as interact regularly with government and non-government stakeholders at multiple levels of authority
• Use excellent analytical skills, including the ability to integrate information from multiple sources
• Are self-motivated, well-organized, and strict attention to detail
• Identify and resolve problems in a timely manner; gather and analyze information skillfully; develop alternative solutions; Critical thinking and creative problem solving
• Ability to understand and manage customer expectations and software implementation methodology
• Ability to prioritize and work on multiple projects at the same time, including the ability to plan, prioritize, and execute multiple initiatives/deadlines autonomously and shift priorities as necessary.

WHAT GDIT CAN OFFER YOU:

• Full-flex work week
• 401K with company match
• Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career
• Collaborative teams of highly motivated critical thinkers and innovators
• Ability to make a real impact on the world around you