Senior Solutions Architect

Role overview Guide technical customer engagements from early discovery and proof of concept through longer-term delivery, while leading and developing an engineering team. The role combines customer advising and solution design with hands-on work on secure software delivery, Kubernetes-based packages, and continuous delivery pipelines. It also includes contributing to demonstrations, technical content, and improvements to how the team supports engagements.

Responsibilities - Serve as a trusted technical contact, understand customer goals and constraints, and recommend suitable solutions. - Lead and mentor engineers, support their growth, and communicate their technical strengths and contributions. - Help frame customer needs, manage proof-of-concept work, and create demonstrations and technical content. - Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines; build, deploy, test, and troubleshoot Kubernetes-related bundles and packages. - Improve team processes and collaborate across functions on research and customer engagement strategy. - Research market and technology developments to inform solution and product opportunities.

Requirements - U.S. citizenship is required; the position requires a Secret security clearance and approximately 25% travel. - 7+ years of software engineering experience, including at least one year in a management role. - At least five years in customer-facing defense engagements and four years working with full-stack development teams. - Experience leading and developing engineering teams, and mentoring or training others. - Strong solution architecture skills across cloud and on-premises environments, with the ability to translate customer needs into clear technical designs. - Experience with Kubernetes, containers, Helm, continuous delivery, and Agile practices.

Nice to have - Familiarity with the CNCF ecosystem, infrastructure or cloud-native tooling, and programming languages such as Python or JavaScript. - Full-stack development experience and comfort evaluating technical information and explaining trade-offs.

Benefits and work setup - Remote within the United States, with a stated salary range of $148,750–$201,250 USD, dependent on experience. - Benefits include health coverage, a retirement plan, stock options, a home-office budget, paid leave and holidays, parental leave, and training or conference reimbursement.