Solutions Architect Director

Job ID: 2617222
Location: Remote Work, TX, US
Date Posted: 2026-09-24
Category: Engineering and Sciences
Subcategory: Solutions Archt
Schedule: Full-Time
Shift: Day Job
Travel: Yes - 10% of the time
Minimum Clearance Required: None
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None
Potential for Remote Work: ORA_REMOTE
Description
SAIC's Civilian Business Group is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Chief Engineer to drive customer mission success, solutions maturity, and integration of numerous technologies across multiple State and Local customer accounts and a diverse group of federal civilian customers and agencies.
Roles and Responsibilities
The candidate will:

• Architect and recommend detailed, innovative solutions approaches that implement a technical "vision" to ensure customer mission success
• Partner with Accounts and customer stakeholders to identify opportunities, mature opportunity definition, and capture solution objectives
• Lead development of concepts of operations, requirements definition, analysis and engineering, system architecture, system analysis and design, interfaces, data architectures, verification and validation, system integration, system and operational performance analysis, and life cycle cost and estimation procedures.
• Support technical review and assessment of readiness of technical solutions in formal and informal reviews
• Perform detailed technical analysis to identify risks, issues, requirements, and opportunities with solution implementation, including tradeoff analyses and analysis of alternatives to solve complex technical problems
• Integrate security and compliance of solutions through the development life cycle
• Coordinate activities of engineering leads, solution architects and/or SMEs to develop and deliver solutions in proposal phase and in contract execution
• Ensure the logical and systematic conversion of requirements into total systems solutions that address technical, schedule, cost, and customer organizational constraints

Qualifications
Required Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Information Security or equivalent and eighteen (18) years or more of related experience; Masters and sixteen (16) years or more experience; may accept additional experience in lieu of degree.
• Minimum ten (10) years of solutions development and implementation required
• Minimum five (5) years of technical team leadership of high-performance teams required
• Must have successful experience bidding and winning work with Civilian Government agencies or the equivalent
• Advanced knowledge of software engineering principles, methods, and techniques to include Agile/Scrum, SAFe/Agile, DevSecOps, and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) methods
• Hands-on experience in solution development in capture and proposal environments and implementing solutions in ongoing programs, including delivery of the final product
• Must have experience architecting in one or more technical domains, to include, but not limited to IT infrastructure, System/Application Development and management, IT Service Delivery, cybersecurity, cloud management, data science, & digital/business transformation.
• Must have excellent communication and writing skills with the ability to produce finished content for delivery to customers, and meet with them regarding SAIC's capabilities, services and solutions. This also includes proposal development, writing, and reviewing skills and working effectively with account management.
• Must have a track record of working in a team-based environment through effective collaboration with multiple (pre-sales or pre-award) disciplines including, but not limited to; account management, business development, capture, proposal, pricing, competitive intelligence, contracts, subcontracting/vendor management, program management, recruiting, solution & product development, and other team members involved in optimizing our proposed solutions.
• Must be able to multi-task across several concurrent efforts.
• Must be able to identify technical staff skills to support pre-award activities.
• Must be able to lead and coordinate work assignments of the account, proposal, technical, and support team members throughout the pre-award process.
• Must have experience with the Federal Government procurement processes; desired experience includes the newer and more "commercial" derivatives of the process (e.g. OTAs, PTAG, agile contracting, etc.)
• Must have ability to empower and grow subordinates as well as communicate effectively to senior and executive management

Required Clearance

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Target salary range: $240,001 - $280,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
SAIC is a premier technology integrator providing full life cycle services and solutions in the technical, engineering, intelligence, and enterprise information technology markets. SAIC is Redefining Ingenuity through its deep customer and domain knowledge to enable the delivery of systems engineering and integration offerings for large, complex projects. SAIC's approximately 15,000 employees are driven by integrity and mission focus to serve customers in the U.S. federal government. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $4.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see .