Cloud Solutions Architect at General Dynamics in Any Location

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Type of Requisition: Regular Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: None Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None Public Trust/Other Required: None Job Family: Technical Solutions Job Qualifications: Skills: Solution Architecture, Strategic Planning, Technical Solutions Certifications: None Experience: 15 + years of related experience US Citizenship Required: No Job Description: Own the opportunity as a Cloud Solutions Architect and help ensure the mission is never interrupted. At GDIT, we deliver clarity with our cloud-native solutions that accelerate digital transformation and enhance mission readiness. Your work will be central to helping our clients modernize, automate and secure different environments using advanced cloud-native capabilities and AI solutions. At GDIT, people are our differentiators. The Cloud Solutions Architect serves as a strategic technical leader responsible for shaping winning cloud solution architectures for federal opportunities. This role operates at the intersection of technology strategy, business development, and government proposals — crafting compelling, compliant, and innovative solutions aligned with agency mission needs. The position requires a charismatic, customer‑oriented technical communicator who can influence capture teams, collaborate across engineering and leadership, and articulate complex cloud concepts in clear, value‑driven terms. HOW A CLOUD SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT WILL MAKE AN IMPACT ● Serve as the principal cloud solution strategist during federal capture and proposal efforts, translating mission requirements and evaluation criteria into winning, market‑aligned architectures and technical narratives. ● Partner closely with business development, capture managers, proposal managers, and executive stakeholders to define discriminators, win themes, solution storylines, and customer‑aligned messaging for proposals and orals. ● Lead development of technical proposal artifacts—including architecture diagrams, technical volumes, briefings, compliance matrices, and oral presentation content—tailored to specific agency acquisition strategies. ● Ability to lead all solution aspects of a task area, workstream or functional program area for pursuits. This includes collaborating with cross-functional teams across the organization as well as vendors to deliver compliant, comprehensive, persuasive, and innovative ● solutions. ● Advise internal teams on cloud strategy, modernization pathways, mission resilience, security posture, and cost‑optimized solution approaches that resonate with government evaluators. ● Act as a persuasive and charismatic technical advocate, able to clearly communicate complex cloud capabilities to executive, technical, and non‑technical audiences during capture engagements and proposal reviews. ● Collaborate with engineering, product, and governance teams to validate technical feasibility, cost structures, deployment models, and compliance alignment (including NIST 800‑53, NIST 800‑171, FedRAMP, and DoD frameworks). ● Guide internal teams on AWS best practices, AI/ML opportunity areas, and differentiating technologies that should be emphasized in competitive proposals. ● Facilitate technical solution reviews to ensure proposed architectures are innovative, compliant, accurate, and aligned with evolving government mandates, cloud strategies, and evaluation trends. ● Continuously evaluate emerging technologies—such as generative AI, container security, edge computing, and automated governance—and translate them into proposal‑ready value propositions and forward‑leaning discriminators. TECHNICAL CAPABILITY REQUIREMENTS ● Strong understanding of cloud‑native architectures using AWS services including Lambda, ECS/EKS, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Step Functions, EventBridge, and modern serverless/container patterns. ● Working knowledge of AWS AI/ML capabilities such as Amazon Bedrock, SageMaker, and Amazon Q, with the ability to position them effectively in government‑focused