Rise8 builds custom, secure software for government organizations, measuring success by impact: lives saved, time returned, and missions advanced.
We think big, start small, and scale fast with elite teams across product, design, and engineering to drive continuous delivery for critical missions.
We believe customer experience starts with employee experience, so we take care of our employees. Rise8 is where you’ll do the best work of your career—supported by a culture you won’t find anywhere else. We offer competitive pay and benefits, but what sets us apart is our commitment to autonomy, growth, and a culture rooted in kindness, candor, and continuous learning.
Certified as a Great Place to Work®, with 100% of employees saying they love working here, Rise8 is where bold ideas become real capabilities. Where mission meets meaning. And where fewer bad things happen because of bad software.
- You want to make tomorrow better than today.
- You have a passion for high-speed security and you care about risk management over compliance.
- You believe the biggest vulnerability in any system is time. You live to securely reduce cycle time.
- You enjoy daily decision making and real product delivery.
- You help ensure project success and client satisfaction.
- You enjoy collaborative teams, pairing with team members, and inviting your clients to participate.
- You like to work alongside, and learn from, lean and agile leaders.
- You are a creative problem solver who is comfortable with uncertainty.
- You’re a curious and keen learner who thrives on enhancing your (and our) practices and knowledge.
At Rise8, the Solutions Architect plays a critical role in our mission to deliver transformative outcomes and drive growth through technical excellence. In this dynamic role, you will shape the vision and architecture for complex software and platform solutions that meet government mission needs while enabling speed, security, and scale. You’ll bridge the gap between engineering execution and customer strategy—owning the technical aspects of pre-capture, proposal, and delivery solutioning. Your work will span leading discovery sessions, designing architectures, creating technical narratives, and supporting orals and prototype demonstrations. Collaboration across Growth, Product, and Engineering teams is essential to craft holistic solutions that deliver mission outcomes. We are looking for technical leaders who thrive on learning, influencing, and building trust through clarity and competence. This is a demanding yet rewarding position that offers the opportunity to make meaningful contributions to our objectives and directly shape the future of government technology.
As a Solutions Architect at Rise8, you will:Own the end-to-end technical solutioning process that brings Rise8’s value to life for our customers. You’ll blend deep engineering expertise with storytelling and strategy, connecting the dots between customer needs, technical feasibility, and mission outcomes. You will lead pre-capture and proposal solutioning efforts, support business growth through technical credibility, and guide delivery teams toward successful execution of architectures you help define.
- Lead technical solutioning sessions with customers to translate mission needs into actionable architectures and delivery strategies.
- Scope engagements and frame delivery approaches that align with Rise8’s agile software delivery model.
- Conduct technical assessments and deep dives across applications, platforms, and data environments.
- Facilitate workshops or design sprints to uncover requirements, align stakeholders, and define solution boundaries.
- Write and review technical sections of proposals, including architectures, implementation plans, and engineering strategies.
- Develop prototypes, demos, or code samples to validate ideas and demonstrate technical feasibility.
- Participate in orals presentations, coding challenges, and customer discussions, demonstrating technical credibility and thought leadership.
- Advise clients on architectures, cloud platforms, and product strategies that enable scalability, resilience, and security.
- Collaborate with Growth Managers and Proposal Specialists to craft winning solution narratives and technical differentiators.
- Support technical hiring and mentorship, helping shape Rise8’s technical excellence across teams.
- Maintain awareness of emerging technologies and government modernization initiatives, applying them to solution design.
- 10+ years of experience in software development, cloud engineering, or platform operations.
- Experience in pre-sales, technical consulting, or client-facing solution architecture roles, ideally within the government sector.
- Proven ability to design and communicate highly available, scalable, and compliant software architectures (APIs, load balancers, messaging systems, UIs, and databases).
- Proficient in one or more programming languages such as Java, Kotlin, or TypeScript.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into plain English.
- Hands-on experience with agile methodologies, TDD, CI/CD, and modern DevSecOps practices.
- Demonstrated ability to work across engineering and growth functions, bridging business outcomes and technical depth.
- Experience with AI/ML applications or developing internal tools that leverage AI to accelerate delivery.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, and leading cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Understanding of DoD Impact Levels (IL2–IL7) and security frameworks such as NIST and RMF.
- Experience working with federal government clients (DoD, Civilian, or Intelligence).
- Strong record of contributing to technical capture strategies, white papers, RFIs, and RFPs.
- Background in platform, data, or application modernization efforts within the DoD or enterprise-scale systems.
- Ability to zoom in and build solutions hands-on, but also zoom out to architect and articulate the big picture.
- Deeply technical background combined with a passion for writing, teaching, and continuous learning.
- Proven ability to lead and collaborate across multiple disciplines and organizational boundaries.
- Track record of successful captures driven by technical storytelling and practitioner credibility.
The annual salary range for this role as it is posted is $168,993 to $211,241 regardless of final candidate location within the United States. The final job level and annual salary will be determined based on the education, qualification, knowledge, skills, ability, and experience of the final candidate(s), and calibrated against relevant market data and internal team equity.
Benefits- Flexible schedule in a 100% distributed workforce
- Premium Insurance: We cover up to 100% of the employee premium and up to 80% of the combined dependent premium on our base health plan, depending on pay band. We also cover 100% of the premium for employee and dependent Dental and Vision as well as employee premiums for Life and Disability coverage.
- Retirement: 401k match at 10% gross pay.
- Paid time off (PTO): 4 weeks combined accrued vacation and sick leave, 11 Federal holidays, your birthday, jury duty, and bereavement.
- Education & Training: Accrued budget of up to $3,500 per year for classes, travel, events, and materials.
- Home Office and Merch: We offer $750 per year for home office technology and equipment as well as $100 per year for Rise8 merch from our Swag Store.
- Wellness Budget: To encourage and support a well-rounded healthy lifestyle, we cover 100% reimbursement on a variety of wellness activities and products, up to $500 per calendar year.
- Rise8 is part of the Life Time Corporate Partner program. In lieu of your $500 annual wellness benefit, you can instead get a $75 monthly credit towards a Life Time membership ($900 annual benefit).
- Equipment: We offer a MacBook Pro
All of Rise8’s work in this area is with Federal Government customers that require our employees involved with their projects be U.S. citizens. As such, this role requires U.S. citizenship. If hired, you would also be required to go through a background investigation.
Rise8 is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that will consider you for this role regardless of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, gender identity or expression, national origin, genetics, age, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
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We are a full-stack digital transformation firm continuously delivering a tomorrow where fewer bad things happen because of bad software. We pair with customers in high compliance organizations to design, build, deploy and run the apps, platforms, and pipelines needed to continuously provide user-centered solutions to our customers.
