3 months ago
Chantilly, VA, USASenior
Base Salary
$190k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect end-to-end technical, management, and transition solutions aligned with customer requirements, mission objectives, feasibility, cost, risk, and delivery considerations.
- Develop technical volumes, solution strategies, architecture diagrams, presentations, proposal narratives, demonstrations, prototypes, and proof-of-concepts.
- Lead early opportunity shaping, solution workshops, technical exchanges, capability gap analysis, customer engagements, and capture activities.
- Partner with Capture, Business Development, Proposal, Pricing, Program, engineering, and technical teams to develop win themes, staffing models, labor estimates, ROMs, BOEs, BOMs, and other solution inputs.
- Present and defend technical solutions to technical, executive, and customer audiences and communicate business and mission value.
- Develop, mature, and operationalize reusable technical capabilities, reference architectures, accelerators, frameworks, demonstrations, and technical collateral.
- Lead technical SMEs, developers, engineers, and operational experts while mentoring junior architects and capture resources.
- Research and integrate emerging technologies relevant to federal and Intelligence Community missions and recommend capability investments, partnerships, or build/buy decisions.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Systems Engineering, Cybersecurity, or another STEM-related discipline, or equivalent directly related work experience in lieu of a degree.
- At least 5 years of experience in solution architecture, technical pre-sales, systems engineering, or delivery focused on federal or Intelligence Community missions.
- Active Top Secret clearance with polygraph.
- Experience supporting Intelligence Community customers and developing technical solutions for federal government or IC environments.
- Experience with technical pre-sales, sales engineering, solutions engineering, solution architecture, systems engineering, or another comparable customer-facing technical role.
- Experience contributing to proposal development and producing innovative, compliant, and executable technical solutions and artifacts.
- Ability to translate mission requirements into high-level architectures, communicate complex technical concepts, write compelling technical narratives, and present to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience developing technical estimates, staffing models, ROMs, BOEs, BOMs, labor estimates, or other technical pricing inputs.
- Preferred qualifications include experience with high-value capture efforts, federal or IC solution positioning, customer stakeholder engagement, laboratory demonstrations, prototypes, capability productization, reusable technical assets, and iterative proposal leadership.
- Required or equivalent certifications include PMP, ITIL, CISSP, or advanced cloud certifications.
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision insurance.
- Paid time off and holidays.
- Retirement benefits including 401(k) matching.
- Educational reimbursement.
- Parental leave.
- Employee stock purchase plan.
- Tax-saving options.
- Disability and life insurance.
- Pet insurance.
- Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM schedule, with occasional after-hours or weekend work and possible on-call responsibilities.
- Position posted August 12, 2026, and expected to remain open until filled.
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About Amentum
Amentum provides engineering, operations and maintenance, logistics, and mission support services to U.S. federal agencies and allied governments, including defense and energy programs. Its business centers on large, long-term government contracts spanning defense, space, nuclear cleanup, and infrastructure, with program management and technical services at the core. Headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia, it was formed in 2020 from the spinoff of AECOM’s Management Services division.