Job Description
Description
Senior Solutions Architect
The Senior Solution Architect reports directly to SAIC’s State
& Local Government West (SLW) Chief Architect. The Senior Solution
Architect will be based in Orange County and will support SAIC’s current
customers in California by conceptualizing and designing IT infrastructure and cloud-based
solutions for SAIC’s government clients within the western United States.
Primary Responsibilities:
You
will act as a senior solutions architect supporting multiple SAIC programs,
including several within Orange County. You will understand the customer’s
requirements and lead the evaluation and high-level design for solutions
spanning the technologies of data center, network, security, end-user,
applications and cloud. Responsibilities
include performing evaluations of technologies, tools, products, and solutions
in consideration of our customers’ requirements.
You
will be responsible for identifying explicit and implicit business needs and for
evaluating the solutions in order to identify those which best meet the needs
by working closely with both business and technology stakeholders to help make
rational, innovative, and transformative design decisions that will best
achieve business value. You will also work
with SAIC engineers to propose and/or validate recommendations to refresh or
upgrade the customer’s current IT infrastructure and applications.
You
will help drive proof of concept activities and be responsible for the
production of roadmaps and overseeing the production of design documents and
other technical project related artifacts.
A
broad understanding of the various components of IT infrastructure,
applications and cloud computing is required for this position, as is the ability
to communicate effectively. Your assignments are in the form of objectives and
you must be skilled at working with others to establish and achieve goals that
will meet those objectives.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- Experience
working as a Solutions Architect
- Proven
ability to quickly build collaborative working relationships with internal
and external stakeholders
- Broad
information technology background across multiple IT disciplines
- Strong written and verbal communication skills--able to
document and present solutions, and to communicate with team members,
management personnel, and end users throughout the organization.
- Bachelors
and fourteen (14) years or more experience or Master’s and twelve (12) years
or more of related experience
Desired Qualifications
Desired Qualifications
- Hands-on
experience with hybrid cloud architectures, public cloud deployment and
operations, technical and security architecture, virtualization, workload
assessments, technical solution architecture, Amazon AWS GovCloud and Microsoft
Azure Government Cloud
- Working
knowledge of cloud management platforms
- Familiarity
with service design and pricing in the context of cloud-based solutions
- Working
knowledge of hyper-converged infrastructure (e.g., Cisco HX, Dell EMC
VXRail), virtualization (e.g., VMware) and storage/backup technologies
(e.g., HP 3PAR/Nimble, Dell EMC Data Domain, Rubrik)
- Experience
with migrating application or infrastructure services to AWS or Azure
Cloud environments
- Professional
cloud solutions architect certification
- ITIL v3
Foundation certification or experience with best practices in an IT
managed services environment
- Cisco CCNP
certification and/or LAN/WAN network architect experience
- Experience
with cloud-based application programming interfaces or disaster recovery
- Experience
with the implementation or operation of Azure Active Directory or
Microsoft Identity Manager
- Experience
with monitoring of data center or cloud-based infrastructure
- Experience working in state and/or local government
business settings
- Experience writing technical proposals
- Experience developing cost estimates for infrastructure
implementation initiatives
- Experience developing the plan for the data center or
cloud-based infrastructure to support a new application
- Experience leading the evaluation of alternatives to
replace an existing application
Overview
SAIC is a premier technology integrator solving our nation's most complex modernization and readiness challenges. Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, civilian, and intelligence markets includes high-end solutions in engineering, IT, and mission solutions. Using our expertise in existing and emerging technologies, we integrate the best components from our own portfolio and our partner ecosystem to deliver innovative, effective, and efficient solutions. We are 23,000 strong; driven by mission, united by purpose, and inspired by opportunities. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has pro forma annual revenues of nearly $6.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For ongoing news, please visit our newsroom. For SAIC benefits information, see Working at SAIC. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability
