Solutions Architect

Build What Matters Simply and Efficiently

Agilious leads with a singular purpose - to empower organizations to build digital solutions that truly serve people by simplifying software delivery and eliminating waste. With over 20 years of experience in strategy design engineering and data our clients count on us not just to deliver technology but to strengthen your teams with the skills training and strategy they need to create real user-focused impact at scale.

About the Role

Agilious is seeking an experienced Solution Architect to design and drive the development of cutting-edge scalable software applications translating complex business requirements into robust cloud-native technical blueprints and ensuring seamless implementation from concept to deployment. As a consultant for Agilious you will be instrumental in defining and shaping technical strategy across a range of high-priority domains including IT modernization software development data analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) programs.

The Solution Architect serves as a critical bridge between customer mission outcomes and technical execution. Your primary responsibility will be to think strategically about complex customer challenges while providing the technical depth required to design architectures that are feasible compliant and highly competitive.

Location/Remote: This position is primarily remote with select day(s) working from a location in the DC-MD-VA metro region.

Clearance: Public Trust Clearance must be obtainable

What Youll Do

As a Solution Architect you will:

• Solution Design: Analyze business needs and design comprehensive end-to-end architectural solutions (microservices event-driven etc.). Present solution concepts roadmaps staffing strategies and architectures to customer stakeholders.
• Technology Strategy: Select appropriate tech stacks platforms (AWS Azure GCP) languages C# (.Net Core Java Python low/no-code etc.) and tools.
• Guidance & Oversight: Provide technical leadership guide development teams and ensure adherence to architectural standards.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Act as the bridge between business stakeholders management and development teams communicating vision and progress.
• Modern Practices: Champion Agile DevOps and cloud-native principles throughout the lifecycle.
• Quality & Risk:Ensure solutions are scalable performant secure and cost-effective; manage technical risks.
• Prototyping & POCs:Develop proofs of concept to validate solutions.
• Mission Alignment: Ensure that all designed solutions are strategically aligned with the customers mission and agency-level goals. Engage directly with Federal and DoD customers to understand mission requirements and technical challenges.
• Business Development & Capture: Work closely with Business Development (BD) Business Analyst and Proposal Teams to shape and influence early-stage pursuits and develop tailored technical strategies.
• Staffing & Execution Planning: Develop staffing plans levels of effort (LOEs) and work breakdown structures (WBSs) to ensure solutions are executable cost-effective and compliant with solicitation requirements. Collaborate with pricing and program management teams to balance technical approach staffing and cost competitiveness.
• Proposal Development: Serve as the lead technical author/reviewer ensuring that all proposal content is compliant compelling and maximizes our Probability of Win (pWin).

Other similar professional duties may be assigned as needed

Key Skills and Qualifications:

Must have at least minimum 10 years of industry experience in this role or a similar role.

• Experience with Enterprise Architecture and creating enterprise roadmaps
• Solution Architecture particularly with software integrations COTS integrations SaaS IaaS and PaaS implementations
• Experience with hybrid-cloud solution design and implementation
• Understanding of AI-based Software Delivery and full SDLC implementation
• Understanding of Agentic AI frameworks and AI based workflow technologies
• Experience with various database technologies including NoSQL & RDBMS and knowledge of data architectures database design and interface designs
• Experience with API gateways and Zero-Trust Architectures and understanding of AI Gateways
• Experience with Container & Serverless technologies and implementation on AWS Azure of GCP
• Experience with DevSecOps practices and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Automatons
• Understanding of Machine Learning concepts and LLMs
• Adept at delivering complex digital projects breaking down barriers to the team and both planning at a higher level and getting into the details to make things happen when needed.
• Proven experience supporting Federal or DoD proposals as a Solution Architect or Technical Lead.
• Experience setting up teams for successful delivery by removing obstacles (or blockers to progress) and constantly helping the team to become more self-organizing.
• Enterprise-level experience with large and complex IT modernization efforts specifically including the successful delivery of IT software solutions
• Experience developing solutions and architectures for cloud-based hybrid and on-premises environments.
• Proven experience in architecting complex web/software applications.
• Deep understanding of software architecture design patterns and styles (microservices serverless).
• Expertise in cloud platforms (AWS Azure GCP) and cloud-native architectures.
• Proficiency in modern development practices (Agile CI/CD DevOps).
• Strong programming background (Java Python C#) and hands-on technical ability.
• Excellent communication leadership and problem-solving skills.

• Nice if you have experience with Analytical Platforms like Databricks or Snowflake

Education and Training

• A Bachelors or post-graduate degree in IT computer science software engineering or equivalent.
• Masters Degree in a related field preferred
• Certificates to demonstrate knowledge and competency.
• Knowledgeable about all phases of the software development life cycle and solution delivery for web client-server and cloud-based systems.
• Subject matter expertise in the field of work.
• Good knowledge of modern software engineering principles and best practices.

• Proven track record of work experience as an architect project manager or developer.

Why Work at Agilious

At Agilious we put our people first. As a team-focused company we foster a collaborative environment where every contractor has a voice opportunities to develop professionally and the support to thrive. If youre looking for a career where you can learn contribute and grow wed love to hear from you.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin gender sexual orientation age marital status veteran status or disability status.

At this time Agilious is unable to provide sponsorship for employment authorization for this position.

The minimum and maximum hourly rate for this role are listed below.

Hourly Rate: $72 - $79