Principal Solutions Architect

The Principal Solutions Architect is a highly experienced technical leader and recognized authority responsible for defining and driving enterprise-wide architecture strategies across cloud, application modernization, and secure distributed systems. This role operates at a senior leadership level, influencing technology direction, advising executive stakeholders, and ensuring alignment between enterprise architecture, business objectives, and federal or regulated requirements. The Principal Solutions Architect leads highly complex initiatives involving cloud transformation, Azure-based solutions, systems integration, and secure application development, while mentoring technical teams and establishing architectural standards across the organization. Responsibilities Define and lead enterprise architecture strategy across cloud, applications, and infrastructure

• Develop multi-year technology roadmaps aligned with organizational and client objectives

• Establish architecture standards, reference models, and governance frameworks

• Advise executive leadership on emerging technologies, risks, and investment priorities

• Architect and oversee complex Microsoft Azure solutions, including hybrid and multi-cloud environments

• Lead enterprise cloud adoption, migration, and modernization strategies

• Design solutions leveraging Azure services including AKS, App Services, Functions, networking, security, and Data/AI services

• Ensure optimization for performance, scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency

• Lead large-scale application modernization initiatives

• Establish best practices for microservices, API-first, and event-driven architectures

• Guide development teams in full-stack and cloud-native development

• Ensure security-by-design principles

• Oversee alignment with federal frameworks (e.g., NIST, Zero Trust)

• Partner with cybersecurity teams

• Lead cross-functional teams

• Drive DevSecOps and automation

• Serve as trusted advisor

• Redesign data structures to support modern, scalable, and efficient data architectures

• Plan and execute comprehensive data mapping activities across systems, ensuring data integrity, traceability, and alignment with enterprise standards

• Develop end-to-end solution designs that align business requirements with system capabilities, ensuring seamless integration and data flow

• Leverage AI tools and technologies to enhance architectural design, productivity, and decision-making

• Demonstrate hands-on experience implementing AI-driven solutions that improve business processes, efficiency, and insights

• Communicate effectively across all levels of the organization, including technical teams, senior leadership, executives, and external customers

• Serve as the primary technical interface to customers, ensuring clear, consistent, and professional communication of solutions and outcomes

• Translate complex technical concepts, architectures, and trade-offs into concise, business-friendly language

• Present solution options with clear pros/cons, risks, and trade-offs to support informed decision-making

• Develop and communicate reasonable level-of-effort estimates, timelines, and solution assumptions
• Demonstrated experience leading enterprise-scale transformation initiatives
• Experience in federal, regulated, or large-scale enterprise environments strongly preferred
• Preferred certifications in Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert and Microsoft Azure Developer Associate
• One or more of the following certifications is preferred: CISSP, CCSP, CISM, TOGA, * US Citizenship Required
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field (Master’s preferred)
• 12-15 years of progressive experience in solutions architecture, cloud engineering and platform design and enterprise application development and modernization
• 5+ years of experience in cloud architecture, application modernization, cloud development, and migrations
• 5+ years of experience in full stack application development
• 3+ years designing and implementing solutions in Microsoft Azure environments

The below listed pay range for this position is not a guarantee of compensation or salary. The final offered salary will be influenced by a host of factors including, but not limited to, geographic location, Federal Government contract labor categories and contract wage rates, relevant prior work experience, specific skills and competencies, education, and certifications. Our employees value the flexibility at Pyramid Systems that allows them to balance quality work and their personal lives. We offer competitive compensation, benefits, to include our Employee Stock Ownership Program, FlexPTO, and learning and development opportunities. Pyramid Min USD $130,158.00/Yr. Pyramid Max USD $180,000.00/Yr. Why Pyramid? Pyramid Systems, Inc. is an award-winning, technology leader, driving digital transformation across federal agencies. We empower forward-thinking innovations, accelerate production-ready software, and deliver secure solutions so federal agencies can meet their mission goals. Voted a Top Workplace, both regionally (Washington, DC) and Nationally (USA) the past 2 years (2023 and 2024) based on the feedback from our employees, we are headquartered in Fairfax, VA. and have a growing national footprint. We value and promote our Flexible Workplace approach because of the positive impacts it has on work-life integration. We remain committed to ensuring every employee’s voice is heard, performance and results are recognized and rewarded, development and advancement is a focus, and diversity, equity and inclusion is a company priority. We offer competitive compensation and benefits (including a recently launched Employee Stock Ownership Plan - ESOP), a robust performance-based rewards program, and we know how to have fun! Our people and culture have endured and delivered for our clients for nearly three decades. EEO Statement