Cloud Solutions Architect

Type of Requisition:

Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

None

Public Trust/Other Required:

NACI (T1)

Job Family:

Technical Solutions

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

AWS Development, Client Facing, Cloud-Native Architecture, Responsive UI, RESTful API Design

Certifications:

None

Experience:

15 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

No

Job Description:

We are seeking a seasoned Cloud Solutions Architect with a strong engineering background, customer-facing communication skills, and a proven history of growing from hands-on development into architectural leadership. The ideal candidate has extensive experience across the full software development lifecycle, can operate in complex multi-cloud environments (with AWS as the primary cloud), and excels at guiding both customers and engineering teams toward scalable, secure, and modern technical solutions. This role requires continuous learning, adaptability, and the ability to unlearn outdated patterns as technologies evolve.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and own end-to-end architecture for enterprise-grade applications, APIs, and distributed systems.
• Engage directly with customers to understand business needs, shape architectural vision, and present solution strategies.
• Provide technical leadership across multiple teams; mentor and grow engineers in best practices and career development.
• Drive architectural modernization efforts including microservices, cloud-native patterns, and DevOps practices.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define roadmaps, integration strategies, and long-term platform evolution.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and guide adoption through prototypes, patterns, and reusable frameworks.
• Ensure application scalability, reliability, performance, and security across the stack.
• Lead design reviews, architecture boards, and technical governance processes.
• Work across AWS services (ECS/EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, CloudFront, RDS, IAM) and advise on multi-cloud patterns (Azure/GCP as a bonus).
• Experience with AI-assisted development workflows (Q Developer, Kiro, GitHub Copilot).

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 15+ years of related technical experience as outlined below:
• Software Development: Strong foundation as a hands-on developer (any modern language such as Python, Java, TypeScript, Go).
• Architecture: Experience designing distributed systems, APIs, integrations, and cloud-native applications.
• APIs: Deep expertise in RESTful API design, system decomposition, idempotency, versioning, and integration patterns.
• Cloud: Hands-on experience with AWS services including compute, storage, network, orchestration, and security. Multi-cloud familiarity is a plus.
• Leadership: Demonstrated experience mentoring, leading, and scaling engineering teams.
• Security: Understanding of authentication/authorization (OAuth2/OIDC, JWT, RBAC) and cloud security principles.
• DevOps: Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker), orchestration (EKS/ECS), and infrastructure-as-code concepts.
• Testing: Understanding of unit, integration, and performance testing for large-scale systems.
• Experience presenting to executives, clients, or technical stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with microservices patterns, event-driven design, and message brokers.
• Exposure to Terraform and/or CloudFormation, AWS CDK.
• Understanding of frontend frameworks (React/Angular) for solution integration, not for day-to-day development.

Certifications:

AWS Solutions Architect – Professional (Required)

Location:

Remote (candidates in the DMV area will have the opportunity to work onsite 2x per month)

Clearance: Ability to pass a CMS background check and meet the residency requirement for having resided in the US at least (3) three out of the last (5) five years in order to obtain a Public Trust.

GDIT is your place:

• 401K with company match

• Comprehensive health and wellness packages

• Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career

• Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications

• Cutting-edge technology you can learn from

• Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holiday

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The likely salary range for this position is $169,150 - $228,850. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Travel Required:

Less than 10%

Telecommuting Options:

Remote

Work Location:

Any Location / Remote

Additional Work Locations:

Total Rewards at GDIT:

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers consulting, technology and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 30,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50 countries worldwide, offering leading capabilities in digital modernization, AI/ML, Cloud, Cyber and application development. Together with our clients, we strive to create a safer, smarter world by harnessing the power of deep expertise and advanced technology.

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