Vice President of Solutions Engineering and Technology

At Goldschmitt and Associates LLC (G&A), we’re not just another company—we’re a catalyst for innovation and impact, and we’re inviting passionate, forward-thinking individuals to join us on this journey. Recognized multiple times on the Inc 5000 list of the fastest-growing companies, G&A is a leader in tech transformation and system modernization for some of the nation’s most important federal agencies.
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Summary:

Goldschmitt and Associates is seeking a Vice President of Solutions Engineering and Technology to provide senior technical leadership across our federal programs, customer initiatives, and commercial software products.
This role leads the development of technology solutions for complex business, operational, and mission challenges. The Vice President works directly with customers, program leaders, product teams, technical architects, engineers, cybersecurity personnel, and business stakeholders to understand requirements, evaluate existing environments, design future-state solutions, and guide initiatives from concept through implementation.
The position combines executive-level technical leadership with hands-on solution engineering. The successful candidate must be able to move comfortably between customer conversations, business processes, system workflows, application and integration design, cloud architecture, security considerations, and implementation planning.
This is broader than a traditional cloud architecture or DevOps role. The Vice President will evaluate how people, processes, applications, data, infrastructure, security requirements, and external systems work together and develop practical solutions that can be successfully implemented and operated in complex enterprise and federal environments.
The position supports both Goldschmitt technology initiatives and billable customer engagements, including modernization efforts, external-facing portals, secure-system integrations, workflow design, cloud solutions, enterprise integrations, technical discovery, and complex cross-system initiatives.
This position is part-time and remote, and the anticipated hourly rate is $125.00 per hour. 

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead solution engineering for complex customer, product, and enterprise technology initiatives
• Translate business, mission, and operational challenges into practical technical solutions and implementation approaches
• Provide senior technical leadership from initial discovery and concept development through design, implementation, deployment, and operational transition
• Evaluate existing systems, processes, architectures, workflows, and technical constraints and develop appropriate future-state solutions
• Develop and communicate solution concepts that span applications, cloud infrastructure, data, APIs, cybersecurity, integrations, workflows, and user experience
• Evaluate technical alternatives and make recommendations based on security, scalability, maintainability, performance, reliability, cost, usability, and operational requirements
• Identify technical risks, dependencies, constraints, and integration challenges early and develop approaches to address them
• Provide technical leadership during complex implementations and help resolve issues that cross organizational, system, or technology boundaries
• Establish and promote effective solution engineering practices, reusable approaches, and technical standards
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to engineers, architects, developers, DevOps personnel, and other technical team members

• Serve as a senior customer-facing technical leader and trusted consultant for Goldschmitt customers and partners
• Lead technical discovery sessions, design workshops, solution-development sessions, architecture discussions, and technical reviews
• Work with customer stakeholders to understand mission objectives, operational processes, user needs, system limitations, security requirements, and future-state goals
• Translate customer needs into technical requirements, solution designs, workflows, integration strategies, and implementation plans
• Facilitate discussions among business users, government stakeholders, system owners, cybersecurity teams, architects, developers, infrastructure teams, and other technical participants
• Develop and present architecture diagrams, workflows, solution concepts, technical roadmaps, integration approaches, and implementation recommendations
• Help customers identify opportunities for modernization, automation, improved workflow, system integration, and operational efficiency
• Communicate complex technical concepts and tradeoffs clearly to both technical and nontechnical audiences
• Support customer presentations, demonstrations, proposals, statements of work, technical estimates, and solution development for new and existing programs

• Analyze complex operational processes and design future-state business and system workflows
• Design solutions that connect users, applications, processes, data, and systems across organizational and technical boundaries
• Lead solution design for external-facing portals and applications that interact with secure or restricted enterprise environments
• Define secure approaches for exchanging information between externally accessible applications and protected internal systems
• Design system boundaries, data flows, integration points, authentication approaches, authorization models, APIs, interfaces, and supporting workflows
• Develop solutions for integrating modern applications with legacy, externally managed, or highly controlled systems
• Identify opportunities to replace manual processes with secure automation while accounting for operational and security requirements
• Collaborate with system owners and cybersecurity teams to develop practical approaches for moving data and transactions across security boundaries
• Design technical approaches that account for both system functionality and the real-world workflow of the people using the solution

• Provide senior technical consulting and solution engineering support to Goldschmitt federal customers, including the Federal Bureau of Prisons
• Support the design and evolution of external portals and applications that interface with systems operating within secure federal environments
• Lead discovery and workflow-design activities with customer stakeholders to understand operational processes and translate them into effective technical solutions
• Define integration approaches between external-facing systems and internal applications, services, databases, APIs, and data exchanges
• Support modernization, automation, and workflow-improvement initiatives involving existing federal systems
• Facilitate technical working sessions involving customer stakeholders, program personnel, system owners, cybersecurity personnel, architects, engineers, and developers
• Develop technical documentation and solution artifacts needed to support customer decision-making, security review, development, implementation, and operations
• Provide senior technical problem-solving support for complex issues involving multiple applications, environments, organizations, or technical disciplines

• Provide senior-level leadership for cloud strategy and AWS solution design supporting enterprise and SaaS applications
• Design secure, scalable, resilient, highly available, and cost-effective cloud solutions
• Support AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud environments
• Guide cloud architecture decisions involving networking, compute, containers, storage, databases, application services, identity, monitoring, and security
• Design and support containerized application environments and modern cloud deployment architectures
• Develop and maintain AWS Infrastructure as Code
• Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment processes
• Support production, staging, development, testing, demonstration, and other application environments
• Design approaches for multi-environment, multi-customer, and tenant-based SaaS deployments
• Design and implement automated environment and tenant provisioning capabilities
• Review significant infrastructure and application changes for scalability, security, reliability, operational impact, and architectural fit
• Monitor cloud environments for availability, performance, security, capacity, reliability, and cost
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, networking, deployment, integration, configuration, and availability issues when senior technical support is required

• Collaborate closely with Goldschmitt's Director of Technical Architecture, product leadership, and development teams on application and platform initiatives
• Translate customer and product requirements into solution-level designs that can be implemented by application development teams
• Participate in application design decisions involving APIs, integrations, authentication, authorization, data flows, workflow, infrastructure, and external services
• Work with technical architecture and development leadership to ensure solution designs are practical, maintainable, secure, and aligned with established product architecture
• Support integration between Goldschmitt applications and customer, partner, commercial, legacy, and federal systems
• Provide solution-level guidance while partnering with technical architecture and development leadership responsible for detailed application architecture and backend implementation
• Help bridge the gap between customer requirements, product strategy, solution architecture, cloud infrastructure, and software engineering

• Incorporate cybersecurity and compliance requirements into solution design from the beginning of an initiative
• Design and oversee application authentication, authorization, identity-management, and access-control approaches
• Implement and manage AWS identity, roles, policies, permissions, and access controls following least-privilege principles
• Work with cybersecurity and compliance teams to identify application, cloud, and integration changes necessary to meet applicable federal security requirements
• Support FedRAMP, ATO, NIST 800-53, FISMA, and other applicable federal cybersecurity and compliance initiatives
• Support security architecture, system-boundary definition, logging, monitoring, auditability, and security-control implementation
• Evaluate solution designs for security risks and recommend practical mitigation approaches
• Implement and maintain cloud and application monitoring, logging, metrics, alerting, and operational dashboards
• Support backup, recovery, resiliency, continuity, and disaster recovery planning

• Significant experience in senior technical leadership, engineering leadership, enterprise technology, architecture, or technical consulting roles
• Demonstrated experience leading complex technical initiatives involving multiple systems, applications, technical disciplines, and stakeholder groups
• Strong experience translating business and operational requirements into technical strategies, workflows, solution architectures, and implementation approaches
• Experience leading customer-facing technical discovery, solution design, design workshops, or architecture reviews
• Strong experience designing, implementing, or supporting production AWS environments
• Experience supporting cloud-hosted enterprise and/or SaaS applications
• Experience designing secure, scalable, highly available, resilient enterprise solutions
• Experience with system integration, APIs, authentication and authorization, data exchange, and distributed application architectures
• Experience with containerized application environments and cloud deployment architectures
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, automated deployment, and modern DevOps practices
• Experience implementing cloud security, identity and access management, monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational controls
• Experience supporting systems subject to cybersecurity, regulatory, or federal compliance requirements
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate complex technical alternatives and make clear recommendations to customers and senior stakeholders
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively with executives, customers, business users, architects, engineers, and developers

Minimum Qualifications:

• 15+ years of professional experience across technology, software engineering, systems architecture, cloud engineering, infrastructure, DevOps, enterprise technology, solutions engineering, or technology consulting
• Possess the ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance. Requirements include possessing sole United States citizenship, no criminal offenses (felony or misdemeanor) within the past 7 years, and possessing no negative federal debt above $7,500 or federal debt in default
• Possess professional experience with the following technologies:
  • Solution Engineering and Architecture
    • Enterprise solution design
    • Application and system integration
    • API and integration architecture
    • Business and system workflow design
    • Secure-system interfaces
    • Cloud and SaaS architectures
    • High-availability and resiliency design
    • Authentication and authorization
    • Technical discovery and requirements analysis
  • AWS Technologies
    • ECS
    • Application Load Balancers
    • Lambda
    • AWS CDK
    • IAM
    • Secrets Manager
    • CloudWatch
    • RDS
    • Simple Notification Service (SNS)
    • CloudFront
  • Platforms and Infrastructure
    • AWS
    • Docker containers
    • Infrastructure as Code
    • CI/CD
    • Git
  • Application and Integration Technologies
    • API Management
    • REST APIs
    • Swagger/OpenAPI
    • Modern web application architectures
    • Enterprise system integration
  • Databases
    • MySQL
    • NoSQL

Preferred Qualifications:

• Possess prior experience with the following:
  • AWS and Cloud
    • AWS GovCloud
    • CloudFormation
    • Cognito
    • API Gateway
    • Simple Email Service (SES)
    • Security Hub
    • GuardDuty
    • AWS Step Functions
    • AWS Organizations
    • Multi-account AWS architectures
  • Programming and Application Technologies
    • Node.js
    • Microservices
    • Event-driven architectures
    • Redis
    • DynamoDB
    • JUnit or comparable automated testing tools
  • Observability
    • Distributed tracing
    • AWS X-Ray
    • OpenTelemetry
  • Federal Security and Compliance
    • FedRAMP
    • Federal ATO processes
    • NIST 800-53
    • FISMA
    • Experience designing systems that interface across federal security boundaries