DOD Solutions Architect

Overview

At REI Systems, our work makes a difference in the lives of millions of people every day. Do you want the opportunity to contribute, grow and learn every day? We're looking to hire individuals who are enthusiastic and eager to contribute to driving results that matter whether you are developing code for a public-facing website, or ensuring that our latest deployment is bug-free.
Do you enjoy working with amazing people? If you are solution oriented, thrive in a fast paced, agile environment then come work for a company that was ranked 7th in the 2016 Washington Post Top Workplaces.
You can be an Architect anywhere, but at REI your experience contributes to a mission. Influence the solution!

"REI Systems is an Equal Opportunity Employer (Minority/Female/Disability/Vet)"

Responsibilities

Develop Persuasive and Competitive Solutions for REI's Growth (Capture/Proposals)

• Support decision-making for lead identification and qualification
• Support captures across REI's offerings
• Develop competitive solutions as part of approved captures (proposition, plans, people, products, past performance, pricing)
• Convey REI's UVP and USP for the capture/opportunity to internal advocates/partner/customer
• Support competitive proposals (contributing, writing, reviewing)
• Support team challenges as needed
• Work within the constraints of RFPs
• Represent REI's complete suite of offerings and competencies in the market

Identify and Exploit New Technologies for New and Existing Clients (Technology, Process, Tools, Platforms, Standards)

• Understand, contribute to, and maintain technology radars in relevant context (market, accounts, portfolios)
• Experience in aligning strategy and technology to meet organizational business objectives.
• Presents proposals to senior government officials or technical governance board in a clear and compelling way
• Recommend pragmatic adoption strategies
• Contribute to REI's Process Asset Library
• Expertise in Application standardization, rationalization, and strategy decomposition.
• Analyze available technologies and makes recommendations of technologies to use and how best to use them
• Present advice inside and outside REI
• Provide robust recommendations for engagements while identifying critical dependencies and gaps

Technical Leadership in Enterprise Agile Environment (Delivery/Value Creation)

• Provide technical thought leadership for Agile development teams, ensuring successful software development projects and use case implementations
• Champion the adoption of development best practices and identify. Adapt to different priorities and communication styles while maintaining high level of productivity
• Strong execution skill to take ideas from inception to implementation, overseeing all stages of project lifecycle. Highlight the challenges, form alliance to overcome issue and achieve positive results
• Spearhead proof-of-concept (POC) initiatives in various areas, driving innovation and identifying viable solutions
• Foster a culture of excellence by actively directing and mentoring development teams, maximizing their potential
• Experience in multi-vendor environment, presenting solutions with authority and accountability to large audience. Understand other vendors' strengths and weaknesses
• Architect and design robust AWS deployment architectures, infrastructure selection, benchmarking, cost estimates ensuring scalability and efficiency
• Deliver a comprehensive multi-year roadmap that outlines a clear path for continuous value creation
• Collaborate with internal REI teams, customer teams and other vendor POCs

Develop Capacity and Build Talent for REI (People, CoPs, CoEs)

• Support recruiting and retention of relevant talent
• Run and/or participate in a COP or COE to share lessons learned/best practices
• Coach, mentor, and develop talent including challenge teams
• Build a network of key people carrying core and emerging competencies in the company
• Provide expertise to customers/teams without becoming a key resource

Support Business Strategy for the Organization (Innovation, Priorities)

• Develop solutions for jobs to be done
• Incubate new competencies
• Drive innovation backlog
• Contribute to REI's strategy
• Strengthen partnerships
• Deliver to the approved budget for competencies

Work and Technical Experience:

• Technical delivery experience within the Department of Defense in software development or analytic platform teams
• Leadership experience in software development or analytic teams
• Experience in end-to-end solution development lifecycle and agile methodologies
• Expertise in one or more modern technologies to include cloud, mobile, platforms (BPM, Low-Code, or CRM), and databases
• Experience in one or more technologies including Open Source, .NET, Java, Appian, JavaScript, AngularJS, Node JS
• 8+ years' experience in one or more architecture domains (e.g. business architecture, solutions architecture, application architecture, security architecture, data architecture)
• Extensive experience in using major cloud platforms (AWS preferred) to build, design, architect, deploy cloud native applications.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field (Master's degree is a plus)
• Demonstrated continued learning through one or more technical certifications or related methods
• 12+ years of comprehensive experience in architecting sustainable enterprise scale architectures, cloud applications and solutions, enterprise systems modernization, cloud-native architectures, microservices architecture and containerized applications
• 5+ years experience within the Department of Defense
• Self-motivated and focused on delivering outcomes
• Able to meet proposal deadlines for the team
• Able to write and present persuasively
• Able to communicate with different stakeholders (both technical and business)
• Able to work in a self-organized and cross-functional team
• Able to iterate based on new information, peer reviews, and feedback
• Effectively resolve conflict between team members and ensure everyone is aligned on the program goal
• Secret Security Clearance preferred.

Education: Bachelor's degree in relevant field. A master's degree in business, public administration, public policy, or relevant field (preferred).

Clearance: US Citizenship required.

Location: Hybrid- Sterling, VA HQ