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# Solution Architect

- **Company:** 22nd Century Technologies, Inc.
- **Location:** Bethesda, MD, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Cyber Security, Information Engineering, Information Technology Operations, Zero Trust Network Access, Google Cloud, Togaf, Data Management, Devsecops
- **Published:** October 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.disabledperson.com/jobs/75858070-solution-architect

## About the Role

* 3+ years of experience leading solution architecture or technical strategy for federal pursuits, major programs, or complex customer transformations
 * Experience working in or with US Federal contractors
 * Demonstrated ability to shape and communicate end-to-end technical solutions in a capture, proposal, or customer advisory context
 * Understanding of federal technology environments, procurement cycles, RFPs, solution reviews, proposal development, and oral presentations
 * Technical fluency across several of the following: AI/ML, data engineering, cloud platforms, cybersecurity, zero trust, DevSecOps, application modernization, enterprise platforms, managed services, IT operations, digital engineering, and secure infrastructure
 * Excellent communication skills, including whiteboarding, storytelling, briefing, facilitation, and oral presentation support
 * Ability to lead through influence across capture, growth, engineering, delivery, pricing, proposal, and partner teams
 * Experience with federal civilian, defense, intelligence, homeland security, health, or law enforcement customers

Desired Skills:

 * Active Secret, Top Secret, TS/SCI, or agency-specific clearance
 * Certifications or strong working knowledge in AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, cybersecurity, zero trust, SAFe, ITIL, TOGAF, CISSP, PMP, or relevant AI/data platforms

## Description

* 22nd Century is seeking Solution Architects to serve as senior technology leaders in support of our growth, capture, and customer solutioning initiatives.
 * This is a high-impact, customer and internal facing role in direct support of our Account Executives and their growth strategies.
 * The ideal candidate is a strategic level thinker with an action-oriented approach who can diagnose customer challenges, define the best solutions, and communicate complex solutions clearly in briefings, proposals, demonstrations, and orals.
 * This role will support strategic opportunities across our strategic and target account areas in support of AI and data, cloud, cybersecurity, software and digital engineering, enterprise platforms, managed services, DevSecOps, IT modernization, and secure mission-oriented solutions.

Responsibilities include:

 * Lead solution strategy for strategic federal opportunities from early qualification through capture, proposal, orals, and transition to delivery
 * Engage directly with customers to understand mission objectives, pain points, operational constraints, technical environments, acquisition priorities, and desired outcomes
 * Translate customer needs into integrated mission-oriented solutions that are secure, scalable, compliant, cost-effective, and aligned to measurable business outcomes
 * Partner with Account Executives, capture managers, proposal teams, pricing, delivery executives, and other technical SMEs to develop differentiated solution narratives
 * Leverage and further enhance 22nd Century developed products, solutions, and best practices
 * Architect multi-domain solutions across AI/ML, data platforms, cloud, cyber, DevSecOps, enterprise platforms, application modernization, managed services, and mission IT
 * Lead or support technical volumes, solution artifacts, architecture diagrams, white papers, oral presentations, executive briefings, and customer workshops
 * Develop win themes, discriminators, value propositions, solution roadmaps, and implementation approaches aligned to with federal evaluators and customer stakeholders
 * Orchestrate SMEs across multiple technical disciplines, ensuring the final solution is coherent, feasible, compliant, and compelling
 * Assess customer current-state environments and recommend target-state architectures, modernization pathways, operating models, and transition strategies
 * Represent the company as a credible senior technical voice in customer conversations, industry events, partner discussions, and strategic pursuits