Red Arch Solutions empowers mission-driven organizations by delivering innovative, scalable, and secure technical solutions. Our team thrives on collaboration, technical excellence, and accelerating our customers' growth goals.
Position Overview
We’re seeking a visionary Solutions Architect who will serve as both a strategic and technical leader to lead the design, development, and implementation of cloud-native and data-centric solutions. The ideal candidate will guide program management and stakeholders with a strategic architectural vision, solve complex cloud challenges, and spearhead efforts to align technical infrastructure with mission goals.
Key Responsibilities
Solution Design and Implementation
- Craft comprehensive solution designs that balance business needs and technical constraints
- Establish architectural frameworks and reusable design patterns
- Select appropriate technologies and platforms for specific use cases
- Develop prototypes and proof-of-concept solutions to drive innovation
- Oversee solution implementation to ensure fidelity to business objectives
- Lead data warehouse architecture, development, and analysis across cloud platforms
- Design and build large-scale data holdings including data lakes and warehouses
- Develop and implement ETL pipelines based on client requirements
- Build databases in the AWS cloud using relational and object-oriented models
- Project long-range needs for database design and administration to meet enterprise architecture goals
- Ensure integration of Identity Management solutions for secure data access
- Lead design of critical features, integrations, and platform optimizations
- Mentor development teams and provide expert technical guidance
- Champion process improvements and engineering best practices
- Collaborate with customers and internal teams to gather and refine requirements
- Align architectural vision with stakeholder goals and expectations
- Communicate complex technical concepts clearly across diverse audiences
- Translating business strategies into technical solutions
- Evaluate financial and operational impacts of architectural decisions
- Advocate for mission alignment and scalable enterprise growth
- 15+ years of experience in solutions architecture or related roles (Bachelors degree can be substituted in lieu of 4 years of experience; Masters degree can be substituted in lieu of 6 years of experience)
- TS/SCI clearance with CI Polygraph
- Certified Cloud Practitioner, Certified Solutions Architect Associate, and Certified Developer Associate
- Expertise in Agile, DevOps, and software development methodologies
- Excellent presentation and communication skills, including experience briefing senior executives (SES level and higher)
- Deep understanding of DIA enterprise services: AAC, ESS, container service mesh
- Experience with DIA’s CI/CD tools: AIDE/DPAAS, ACAS, STIG standards, RMF+, and ATO acquisition processes
- Demonstrated success in designing and implementing cloud infrastructure, data warehouses, and secure, complaint-enterprise systems
- Operational knowledge of DIA’s microservice architecture and Object Based Production (e.g., Object Management Service)
- Proven success managing Agile Release Trains and applying the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
Top Skills
What We Do
Red Arch Solutions is a premier U.S. small business providing its customers with state-of-the-art tactical and strategic intelligence, systems, and software engineering solutions, solving some of the most pressing and unique intelligence community challenges related to National Security.
Our employees are exceptionally skilled professionals; individuals who are dedicated to collecting, analyzing, creating and engineering the best solutions in support of critical missions. Red Arch Solutions takes pride in the success of our customers. The depth of our engineers’ experience combined with our breadth of exposure across the intelligence community enables us to provide value added, synergistic analytical and engineering support.
Unique to Red Arch Solutions is the focus on its employees. Our guiding principle is “People First.” We offer employees career mobility and stability, work-life balance flexibility, and individualized career paths. The loyalty of highly trained, skilled professionals is our key corporate asset.
Red Arch Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Affirmative Action Employer.
