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SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT

REI Systems
Dulles, VA Full Time
POSTED ON 1/17/2025 CLOSED ON 4/15/2025

What are the responsibilities and job description for the SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT position at REI Systems?

Overview :

REI Systems mission is to deliver innovative technology solutions for Federal Clients. The foundation of our success is an unwavering determination to surpass our clients expectations. We offer this same commitment to our employees by providing professional development, projects that are impactful and meaningful, and the flexibility to spend time with family and friends. We believe our employees are at their best when they are fulfilled in both their professional careers and their lives outside of work. Learn more at REIsystems.com.?

Employees voted REI Systems a Washington Post Top Workplace in 2015, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024!

If you are solution oriented and thrive in a fast paced, agile environment then come work for a company that was named a Washington Post Best Place to Work for 5 out of the last 6 years.

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

Responsibilities :

Key Result Areas and Activities :

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
  • Lead competitive proposals (contributing, writing, reviewing)
  • Support organic 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 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 either business applications, content management or analytics
  • 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 : 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
  • 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
  • Education : Bachelors degree in relevant field. A masters degree in business, public administration, public policy, or relevant field (preferred).

    Clearance : US Citizenship required.

    Location : Hybrid- Sterling, VA HQ

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