Serve as a senior, customer-facing technical leader for federal pursuits: define solution strategy, architect multi-domain secure and scalable systems (AI, cloud, data, cyber), lead capture/proposal technical content, engage executives, orchestrate SMEs, and transition winning solutions to delivery while maturing reusable patterns and partner offerings.
Job Summary & Responsibilities
Everforth ECS is seeking a Principal Solutions Architect, Federal Growth & Strategic Solutions to work in our Fairfax, VA office.
About the role
Everforth ECS is seeking a Principal Solutions Architect to serve as a senior technology leader across our federal growth, capture, and customer solutioning efforts. This is a high-impact, customer-facing role for someone who can operate as a trusted technical advisor to federal agencies, mission leaders, capture teams, and internal delivery organizations.
The ideal candidate is more than a traditional architect. They are a strategic solutioning executive who can diagnose customer challenges, define the best technical path forward, connect technology decisions to mission and business value, and communicate complex solutions clearly in executive briefings, proposals, and orals.
This role will support strategic opportunities across our core service offerings, including AI and data, cloud, cybersecurity, software and digital engineering, enterprise platforms, managed services, DevSecOps, IT modernization, and secure mission solutions. The Principal Solutions Architect will work across business development, capture, proposal, pricing, delivery, engineering, and partner teams to design differentiated, achievable, and compelling solutions for complex federal customers.
What you’ll do
- Lead technical solution strategy for strategic federal opportunities from early qualification through capture, proposal, orals, and transition to delivery.
- Engage directly with customers to understand mission objectives, pain points, operational constraints, technical environments, acquisition priorities, and desired outcomes.
- Translate customer needs into integrated technical solutions that are secure, scalable, compliant, cost-effective, and aligned to measurable mission value.
- Partner with capture managers, account leaders, proposal teams, pricing, delivery executives, and technical SMEs to develop differentiated win strategies and solution narratives.
- Architect multi-domain solutions across AI/ML, data platforms, cloud, cyber, DevSecOps, enterprise platforms, application modernization, managed services, and mission IT.
- Lead or support technical volumes, solution artifacts, architecture diagrams, white papers, oral presentations, executive briefings, and customer workshops.
- Develop technical win themes, discriminators, value propositions, solution roadmaps, and implementation approaches that resonate with federal evaluators and mission stakeholders.
- Orchestrate SMEs across multiple technical disciplines, ensuring the final solution is coherent, feasible, compliant, and compelling.
- Assess customer current-state environments and recommend target-state architectures, modernization pathways, operating models, and transition strategies.
- Support solution reviews, color teams, gate reviews, price-to-win discussions, risk reviews, and executive approvals.
- Represent the company as a credible senior technical voice in customer conversations, industry events, partner discussions, and strategic pursuits.
- Help mature reusable solution patterns, accelerators, reference architectures, and partner-aligned offerings across AI, cloud, and cyber.
- 15+ years of experience in technology consulting, systems integration, enterprise architecture, solution architecture, or federal mission technology.
- 5+ years of experience leading solution architecture or technical strategy for federal pursuits, major programs, or complex customer transformations.
- Experience working in or with large federal systems integrators, technology consulting firms, or mission-focused government contractors.
- Demonstrated ability to shape and communicate end-to-end technical solutions in a capture, proposal, or customer advisory context.
- Strong understanding of federal technology environments, procurement cycles, RFPs, solution reviews, proposal development, and oral presentations.
- Ability to engage credibly with senior customer stakeholders, including CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, program executives, mission owners, and technical evaluators.
- Broad technical fluency across several of the following: AI/ML, data engineering, cloud platforms, cybersecurity, zero trust, DevSecOps, application modernization, enterprise platforms, managed services, IT operations, digital engineering, and secure infrastructure.
- Ability to connect technology architecture to customer value, mission outcomes, operational improvement, cost reduction, risk reduction, and delivery feasibility.
- Excellent executive communication skills, including whiteboarding, storytelling, briefing, facilitation, and oral presentation support.
- Ability to lead through influence across capture, growth, engineering, delivery, pricing, proposal, and partner teams.
- Strong judgment around solution tradeoffs, technical risk, delivery realism, compliance, staffing models, and cost-to-deliver.
Salary Range: $225,000 - $275,000
General Description of Benefits
ECS Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA Office
2310 Executive Circle, Colorado Springs, CO, United States, 80906
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