Everforth ECS is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to work in our Fairfax, VA office.
Everforth ECS is looking for a senior-level Solutions Architect to support a variety of highly complex technical initiatives, including Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning, ISR, Big Data/Cloud, secure infrastructure, and enterprise systems integration. This role serves as a recognized technical expert within the Business Unit – Intel team, providing technical leadership across multiple programs, customers, and mission environments.
This is not a project management role; however, it requires significant technical leadership, broad architectural expertise, and the ability to solve unusually complex technical problems across multiple disciplines. The Solutions Architect will work closely with program leadership, government stakeholders, technical teams, and project managers to define technical strategies, develop architectures and roadmaps, and rapidly deliver secure, mission-critical solutions. The ideal candidate fosters a culture of customer service, innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence while helping shape emerging technical capabilities and new business opportunities.
Key Responsibilities
- Enterprise Hardware Strategy: Serve as the definitive Principal Subject Matter Expert (SME) for hardware and form factors, architecting and governing global deployment strategies across all enterprise locations and customer portfolios.
- Asset Governance & Lifecycle Management: Establish and oversee comprehensive asset management frameworks, ensuring 100% accountability, tracking, and compliance for all deployed equipment and critical site contact networks.
- Quality Assurance & Installation Excellence: Define and enforce rigorous testing, integration, and validation standards to guarantee zero-defect delivery and flawless post-installation performance.
- Vulnerability & Compliance Oversight: Direct the tracking, mitigation, and reporting of systems patching to guarantee continuous alignment with strict information assurance (IA) and cybersecurity frameworks.
- Executive Stakeholder Communication: Act as the primary technical liaison for executive stakeholders and clients, delivering strategic updates on system performance, troubleshooting initiatives, and incident resolutions.
- Deployment & Timeline Management: Own and manage high-level customer expectations, SLA compliance, and strategic delivery timelines for multi-site enterprise deployments.
- Product & Business Unit Alignment: Drive ECS product development roadmaps and deployment strategies across the Business Unit, aligning technical capabilities with broader corporate objectives.
- Workforce Development & Training Standards: Champion the creation, institutionalization, and enforcement of technical training standards to elevate team capabilities and maintain a high-performing technical workforce.
- Strategic Growth & Enterprise Scaling: Spearhead growth initiatives and capture support within the Business Unit, scaling capabilities to advance the broader ECS Enterprise mission.
- Knowledge Management & Mentorship: Cultivate a culture of continuous learning by designing institutional knowledge-transfer frameworks for team members and client personnel.
Salary: 220,000-240,000
Preferred Qualifications- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field with 12+ years of related experience, or a Master’s degree with 10+ years of related experience; equivalent combinations of education and experience may be considered.
- Active TS/SCI security clearance with ability to pass/maintain CI Polygraph requirements.
- Extensive experience supporting complex technical programs within the Intelligence Community and/or Department of Defense.
- Demonstrated experience architecting, designing, integrating, deploying, and sustaining enterprise-level technical solutions.
- Demonstrated technical leadership across multidisciplinary engineering teams and complex mission environments.
- Strong experience with enterprise architecture, systems integration, secure infrastructure, cloud technologies, and containerized environments.
- Experience with OpenShift, Kubernetes, Docker, virtualization, and enterprise Linux/Windows environments.
- Experience developing technical architectures, solution designs, implementation strategies, technical roadmaps, and architecture/data-flow diagrams.
- Experience translating complex mission and business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
- Demonstrated ability to evaluate emerging technologies and apply them to complex customer requirements.
- Experience working directly with senior government customers, program leadership, technical stakeholders, and third-party technology partners.
- Strong understanding of cybersecurity, information assurance, and security requirements within classified DoD/IC environments.
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical efforts from initial requirements and solution development through implementation, deployment, and operational sustainment.
- Excellent communication, technical writing, presentation, and technical briefing skills.
- Ability to travel frequently, primarily within CONUS, with occasional OCONUS support as required.
- Self-motivated with strong technical judgment and a proactive, solution-oriented mindset.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field with 12+ years of related experience; equivalent combinations may be considered.
- Master's degree with 10+ years of related experience may qualify.
- Active TS/SCI security clearance with ability to pass and maintain CI polygraph requirements.
- Extensive experience supporting complex technical programs within the Intelligence Community and/or Department of Defense.
- Experience architecting, designing, integrating, deploying, and sustaining enterprise-level technical solutions.
- Technical leadership experience across multidisciplinary engineering teams and complex mission environments.
- Experience with enterprise architecture, systems integration, secure infrastructure, cloud technologies, and containerized environments.
- Experience with OpenShift, Kubernetes, Docker, virtualization, and enterprise Linux/Windows environments.
- Experience developing technical architectures, solution designs, implementation strategies, technical roadmaps, and architecture/data-flow diagrams.
- Experience translating complex mission and business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
- Ability to evaluate emerging technologies and apply them to complex customer requirements.
- Experience working directly with senior government customers, program leadership, technical stakeholders, and third-party technology partners.
- Strong understanding of cybersecurity, information assurance, and security requirements within classified DoD/IC environments.
- Ability to lead technical efforts from initial requirements and solution development through implementation, deployment, and operational sustainment.
- Excellent communication, technical writing, presentation, and technical briefing skills.
- Ability to travel frequently, primarily within CONUS, with occasional OCONUS support as required.
- Self-motivated with strong technical judgment and a proactive, solution-oriented mindset.
ECS Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about ECS and has not been reviewed or approved by ECS.
-
Healthcare Strength — ECS advertises multiple national-network medical plan options with HSA eligibility alongside dental and vision coverage. Coverage generally begins quickly and is paired with company-paid short- and long-term disability, adding stability to the health package.
-
Retirement Support — A 401(k) with Safe Harbor and immediate vesting on employer contributions is emphasized, with an employer match available. Access to an employee stock purchase plan via the parent company provides an additional savings avenue.
-
Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave up to 30 days, adoption assistance, and other family-oriented leaves are highlighted. Feedback suggests these offerings add meaningful value beyond base pay for many roles.
ECS Insights
What We Do
ECS, a segment of ASGN (NYSE: ASGN), delivers advanced solutions and services in cloud, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), application and IT modernization, and science and engineering. The company solves critical, complex challenges for customers across the U.S. public sector, defense, intelligence and commercial industries. ECS maintains partnerships with leading cloud, cybersecurity, and AI/ML providers and holds specialized certifications in their technologies. Headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, ECS has more than 3,400 employees throughout the U.S. and has been recognized as a Top Workplace by The Washington Post for the last five years.
