Principal Solutions Architect with Security Clearance

Job Title: Principal Solutions Architect
Location: Ft. Belvoir, VA
Type: Direct Hire / Salaried
Work Model: Onsite Hybrid Security Clearance: Active Secret clearance Seeking a Principal Solutions Architect to shape the technical direction of a Department of Defense technology modernization program. This role will connect mission requirements with practical architecture across commercial software, cloud, data, cybersecurity, and user-facing applications.
The Principal Solutions Architect will work directly with customer leaders and engineering teams, owning technical decisions from strategy through implementation. Responsibilities

• Own the target architecture and technical roadmap for an integrated mission platform.
• Translate mission and business requirements into executable technical approaches.
• Evaluate commercial platforms and determine how they should integrate with government systems and environments.
• Lead architecture reviews and resolve cross-cutting technical decisions.
• Guide engineering teams on scalability, security, interoperability, and sustainment.
• Develop prototypes or technical validation when needed to reduce delivery risk.
• Explain complex technical decisions and tradeoffs to senior technical and nontechnical stakeholders. Minimum Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Ten or more years of experience in solutions architecture, software architecture, systems engineering, or technology modernization.
• Broad technical experience across SaaS products, cloud platforms, enterprise data, software delivery, and cybersecurity.
• Demonstrated ownership of architecture for a complex production system or platform.
• Experience working directly with engineering teams and senior customer stakeholders.
• Experience supporting a Department of Defense customer.
• Strong technical writing, briefing, and decision-making skills.
• Active Secret clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting Department of Defense organizations.
• Familiarity with DoD enterprise technology, cybersecurity, and data requirements.
• Experience supporting federal acquisition or mission-support organizations.
• Familiarity with large-scale defense modernization programs.
• Experience with AWS, Palantir Foundry, government data platforms, or comparable platforms.
• Relevant cloud, cybersecurity, architecture, or systems-engineering certification.