[Hiring] Senior IT Solutions Architect @SAIC

Role Description

SAIC is searching for a Senior IT Architect with a strong desire to build excellence in the Growth organization by improving the performance of both capture teams and individual members. The Senior IT Architect will:

• Lead/participate in Deal Assessments.
• Provide specific deal recommendations to maximize win probability.
• Perform mentoring and coaching of Capture Managers, Business Development, and Solution Architects.
• Engage on opportunities to improve deal quality and make our approach meaningful to the customer.
• Support tens of pursuits simultaneously with experience and ability to flex across multiple customer domains and technologies.

The successful candidate will:

• Demonstrate experience in multiple customer domains (Civilian, Space, Intelligence, and/or Defense).
• Have successfully performed in at least two roles in the business development and program execution lifecycle (e.g., capture, business development, line management, solutioning, and/or technical or program management execution).
• Exhibit excellent critical thinking, win-strategy development, problem solving, business acumen, and interpersonal skills.
• Show competent and confident leadership with the ability to assess and contribute to deal quality improvement ideas.
• Lead/participate in workshops to mature and improve quality of business development, capture, and solution artifacts.
• Work effectively in a fast-paced, time-sensitive, and often multi-tasking environment.
• Apply industry best practices (Agile, ITIL, DevSecOps, MLOps, etc.).

Other duties and responsibilities include:

• Effective collaboration with Capture Managers, BD leads, subject and technical matter experts, lead estimators, functional leads, Program and Proposal Managers.
• Assess customer requirements by leveraging knowledge of FAR and non-traditional acquisitions.
• Assess competition, evaluating strengths and threats to differentiate SAIC against competitors.
• Assess win strategy; identify approaches to test and validate solutions with customers.
• Participate in internal gate reviews, execution risk reviews, and capture reviews; document lessons learned.
• Build and work within high-performance teams in a matrix-management environment.
• Participate in proposal color reviews as section lead, horizontal reviewer, or volume/section contributor.
• Execute Corporate BD CONOPS and implement SAIC growth culture.
• Identify gaps and develop strategies to overcome weaknesses and mitigate risks.
• Apply AI to increase productivity and quality.
• Communicate clearly with senior and executive management within the company.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science degree in computer science, IT, engineering, mathematics, or other science plus twenty (20) years or more of related experience.
• Demonstrated ability and reputation for leading or contributing to winning complex, product, and service contract awards for government with values reaching over $100M single-award deals.
• Experience utilizing various contract vehicles.
• Experience in at least one more function: line management, business development, capture, and/or solution architecture for large programs valued at more than $100M.
• Demonstrable understanding of federal procurement acquisition process, contract types, and payment types is expected.
• Experienced and confident working with senior and executive management within the company and with senior level Government customers.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizen with or able to obtain a Secret clearance.
• Up to 25% travel.

Benefits

• SAIC is a premier mission integrator focused on advancing the power of technology and innovation to serve and protect our world.
• Robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, intelligence, and civilian markets.
• Secure high-end solutions in mission IT, enterprise IT, engineering services, and professional services.
• Integration of emerging technology into mission critical operations.
• Approximately 23,000 strong; driven by mission, united by purpose, and inspired by opportunities.
• SAIC is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
• Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with annual revenues of approximately $7.3 billion.