Solution Architect (MS)

• Collaborate with product/solution owners, business teams, and analysts to help translate business strategies and requirements into solution architectures and application roadmaps.

• Define and document target architectures and patterns for enterprise applications.

• Support end to end solution design for major initiatives, ensuring consistency with enterprise architecture principles, security policies, and infrastructure standards.

• Work closely with system engineers and infrastructure/support teams to design resilient, observable, and performant cloud hosting, networking, and integration models.

• Support the development and maintenance of cloud adoption roadmaps, migration strategies, and reference architectures for key business capabilities and platforms.

• Provide technical leadership and guidance to engineering and DevOps teams on architecture best practices, automation, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code.

• Partner with security and compliance teams to ensure solutions meet regulatory, data protection, and identity/access management requirements.

• Review solution designs, integration approaches, and implementation plans produced by delivery teams, providing feedback and approvals.

• Support the creation and maintenance of clear architecture artifacts, including diagrams, standards, and decision records for cross team consumption.

• Lead the implementation of approved solution designs.

• Work with technical staff to help document the "as-is" environment.

• 8+ years overall IT experience,

• 5+ years' experience in software, systems, or cloud engineering, including 2+ years as a Solution/Cloud Architect in enterprise environments.

• Proven experience designing and implementing solutions in Azure; multi cloud experience desired.

• Strong understanding of cloud architecture concepts: virtual networking, security, identity, storage, data protection, high availability, and disaster recovery.

• Hands on knowledge of modern application architectures (APIs, microservices, containers, serverless, event driven patterns) and integration approaches.

• Familiarity with infrastructure as code and automation tools (such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, or similar).

• Experience working with or within enterprise architecture, collaborating with multiple domains (applications, data, infrastructure, security).

• Knowledge of Agile, DevSecOps, or ITIL environments.

• Experience running workshops or interviews with technical staff to gather content.

• Ability to operate in ambiguous environments, perform discovery, and propose a structured plan to get from "unknown current state" to a well-documented capability.

• Strong communication skills capable of communicating technical concepts to senior leadership and customer stakeholders.

• Ability to work independently and collaboratively with cross functional teams.

Education and Certifications

Required: Active Secret Clearance

Desired: Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, or a related field

Desired: Cloud+

Desired: Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals

All work to be performed in Hampton Roads area. Hybrid work from home, at customer site in Suffolk, corporate offices in Virginia Beach and Chesapeake, VA. We use E-Verify to confirm the identity and employment eligibility of all new hires.