Solutions Architecture, SME

Job description

Responsibilities We are seeking a highly skilled and innovative Solution Architect SME to join our team in the greater DMV area, supporting the Army National Guard. Responsibilities: - Provide enterprise technical authority for design and governance of secure, scalable data analytics and application architectures supporting mission requirements. - Establish baseline and target solution architectures, define IT standards, and ensure alignment across business, systems, and information domains. - Review and adjudicate architectural designs for data warehousing, ETL/ELT pipelines, big‑data platforms (Spark/Hadoop), and analytics platforms to ensure technical maturity and compliance. - Advise leadership on solution strategy, modernization planning, performance optimization, and cloud/hosting tradeoffs across multi‑environment ecosystems (AWS/Azure/GCP). - Ensure architectures incorporate DoDM 8140.03/DCWF role 651 responsibilities, ITIL 4 service management practices, COOP/COG continuity, and operational sustainment considerations. - Guide automation strategy, scripting, and workflow optimization to improve operational efficiency and reliability. - Validate scalability, resiliency, secu...