Cloud Solutions Architect

Cloud Solutions Architect

Own the opportunity as a Cloud Solutions Architect and help ensure the mission is never interrupted. At GDIT, we deliver clarity with our cloud-native solutions that accelerate digital transformation and enhance mission readiness. Your work will be central to helping our clients modernize, automate and secure different environments using advanced cloud-native capabilities and AI solutions. At GDIT, people are our differentiators. The Cloud Solutions Architect serves as a strategic technical leader responsible for shaping winning cloud solution architectures for federal opportunities. This role operates at the intersection of technology strategy, business development, and government proposals-crafting compelling, compliant, and innovative solutions aligned with agency mission needs. The position requires a charismatic, customer-oriented technical communicator who can influence capture teams, collaborate across engineering and leadership, and articulate complex cloud concepts in clear, value-driven terms.

How a Cloud Solutions Architect will make an impact:

• Serve as the principal cloud solution strategist during federal capture and proposal efforts, translating mission requirements and evaluation criteria into winning, market-aligned architectures and technical narratives
• Partner closely with business development, capture managers, proposal managers, and executive stakeholders to define discriminators, win themes, solution storylines, and customer-aligned messaging for proposals and orals
• Lead development of technical proposal artifacts-including architecture diagrams, technical volumes, briefings, compliance matrices, and oral presentation content-tailored to specific agency acquisition strategies
• Ability to lead all solution aspects of a task area, workstream or functional program area for pursuits. This includes collaborating with cross-functional teams across the organization as well as vendors to deliver compliant, comprehensive, persuasive, and innovative solutions
• Advise internal teams on cloud strategy, modernization pathways, mission resilience, security posture, and cost-optimized solution approaches that resonate with government evaluators
• Act as a persuasive and charismatic technical advocate, able to clearly communicate complex cloud capabilities to executive, technical, and non-technical audiences during capture engagements and proposal reviews
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and governance teams to validate technical feasibility, cost structures, deployment models, and compliance alignment (including NIST 800-53, NIST 800-171, FedRAMP, and DoD frameworks)
• Guide internal teams on AWS best practices, AI/ML opportunity areas, and differentiating technologies that should be emphasized in competitive proposals
• Facilitate technical solution reviews to ensure proposed architectures are innovative, compliant, accurate, and aligned with evolving government mandates, cloud strategies, and evaluation trends
• Continuously evaluate emerging technologies-such as generative AI, container security, edge computing, and automated governance-and translate them into proposal -ready value propositions and forward-leaning discriminators

Technical capability requirements:

• Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures using AWS services including Lambda, ECS/EKS, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Step Functions, EventBridge, and modern serverless/container patterns
• Working knowledge of AWS AI/ML capabilities such as Amazon Bedrock, SageMaker, and Amazon Q, with the ability to position them effectively in government-focused solution offerings
• Familiarity with DevSecOps design principles-CI/CD, policy-as-code, and IaC tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation-to ensure proposed solutions are automatable, scalable, and operationally sound
• Practical understanding of Zero Trust architecture, AWS Well-Architected Framework, and secure multi-account designs relevant to federal missions
• Knowledge of government compliance standards including NIST 800-53, NIST 800-171, FedRAMP, and DoD Cloud SRG to ensure proposals are audit-ready and aligned with agency expectations

What you'll need to succeed:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, or equivalent experience
• 15+ years of total experience, with 8+ years of experience architecting cloud solutions, with a strong emphasis on solution design, technical strategy, and pre-sales or proposal support
• Demonstrated expertise in cloud-native architectures and AWS services such as Lambda, ECS/EKS, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Step Functions, EventBridge, Bedrock, SageMaker, and Amazon Q
• Proven experience contributing to federal, state, or local government proposals -including authoring technical volumes, shaping solution narratives, producing architecture diagrams, and supporting orals
• Strong understanding of DevSecOps concepts, CI/CD pipelines, policy-as-code, and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform/CloudFormation) to ensure proposed architectures are feasible and automatable
• Working knowledge of federal compliance frameworks (NIST 800-53, NIST 800-171, FedRAMP, DoD Cloud SRG) and the ability to integrate compliance requirements into cloud solution designs
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly and persuasively to technical and non-technical audiences, including executives, capture teams, and proposal evaluators
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, collaborative proposal environment as well as independently with minimal supervision
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a proactive approach to identifying risks, shaping differentiators, and strengthening overall solution competitiveness

Certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate required (Professional strongly preferred) Security Clearance: Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret clearance Location: Remote, but must be able to travel up to 25% for customer and proposal support US Citizenship Required GDIT IS YOUR PLACE At GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do.

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• Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off
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