Solutions Architect

• Analyze business, mission, operational, technical, security, compliance, and stakeholder requirements.
• Facilitate stakeholder discussions to clarify objectives, constraints, assumptions, priorities, and expected outcomes.
• Evaluate requirement completeness, feasibility, and implementation implications.
• Translate business needs into actionable solution requirements and architectural considerations.
• Assess current-state business, application, data, platform, infrastructure, and operational capabilities.
• Identify capability gaps, process deficiencies, technology limitations, organizational constraints, and modernization opportunities.
• Develop solution concepts and candidate approaches addressing business needs and capability gaps.
• Evaluate alternatives, benefits, risks, dependencies, complexity, operational impacts, and costs.
• Develop decision-ready recommendations with documented rationale.
• Support working groups, review boards, architecture governance, and executive decision forums.
• Collaborate with enterprise architects, platform architects, SMEs, engineering, operations, cybersecurity, service management, and business stakeholders.
• Promote reuse of approved enterprise capabilities, services, platforms, and architectural patterns.
• Assist project and program teams in translating approved solutions into implementation plans.
• Identify dependencies, sequencing, resource requirements, organizational impacts, and transition needs.
• Support deployment, adoption, operations, sustainment, and continuous improvement planning.
• Help reduce implementation risk through early identification of technical, organizational, and operational challenges.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Systems Engineering, Engineering, Business Information Systems, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.
• At least 10 years of experience supporting solution architecture, systems engineering, enterprise architecture, business analysis, service design, technology modernization, or related technology transformation initiatives.
• Experience analyzing business, mission, operational, technical, security, compliance, and organizational requirements and translating those requirements into actionable solution approaches.
• Demonstrated experience assessing current-state capabilities, identifying capability gaps, evaluating constraints, and developing recommendations that align business needs with technical realities.
• Experience developing conceptual, logical, and physical solution architectures spanning applications, data, infrastructure, platforms, cybersecurity, integration services, and operational capabilities.
• Experience conducting gap assessments, root cause analysis, business process analysis, capability assessments, and solution evaluations within complex enterprise environments.
• Experience evaluating solution alternatives and performing trade studies considering business value, implementation complexity, organizational readiness, supportability, risk, lifecycle costs, and long-term sustainability.
• Experience identifying opportunities to leverage existing enterprise capabilities, shared services, platforms, and reusable architectural patterns.
• Experience supporting intake, discovery, requirements elicitation, stakeholder engagement, solution assessments, and decision-support activities.
• Experience formulating recommendations supported by technical analysis, business considerations, operational impacts, implementation constraints, and strategic objectives.
• Experience working with enterprise architects, platform architects, engineers, cybersecurity teams, operations organizations, service owners, program managers, and business stakeholders.
• Experience developing architecture artifacts, capability assessments, gap analyses, solution recommendations, decision papers, implementation roadmaps, and executive-level briefings.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Preferred: experience with engineering and operations, working groups, ARBs, TRBs, governance forums, investment reviews, capability assessments, AoA, trade studies, modernization assessments, cloud migration, service delivery improvement, platform rationalization, stakeholder workshops, architecture reviews, business capability models, process flows, service blueprints, distributed or regulated enterprise environments, and relevant professional certifications.
• Experience across infrastructure, networking, cloud platforms, enterprise applications, software development, data and analytics, cybersecurity, service management, and systems integration.
• Familiarity with Agile delivery, requirements management, backlog prioritization, roadmap development, ITIL practices, two or more major cloud service providers, CI/CD, version control, automation, configuration management, release management, enterprise architecture tools, performance analysis, capacity planning, monitoring, observability, reporting, operational analytics, architecture frameworks, capability modeling, business architecture, service architecture, systems engineering, and decision-support methodologies.

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in analyzing and translating complex business, operational, and technical requirements into actionable solution architectures. Proficient in evaluating current-state capabilities, identifying gaps, and developing strategic recommendations that align with organizational objectives.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Solution Architecture
• Business Analysis
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Gap Assessment
• Technical Recommendations

Hard Skills

• Systems Engineering
• Enterprise Architecture
• Cybersecurity
• Cloud Migration
• Data Analysis
• Service Design
• Requirements Elicitation
• Capability Modeling
• Process Analysis
• Implementation Planning

Soft Skills

• Strong Communication Skills
• Collaboration
• Facilitation

Industry Keywords

• Technology Modernization
• Governance Forums
• Investment Reviews
• Business Capability Models
• Service Blueprints
• Distributed Environments
• Regulated Environments

Tools & Technologies

• Agile Delivery
• ITIL Practices
• CI/CD
• Version Control
• Architecture Frameworks
• Operational Analytics
• Monitoring
• Reporting