Solutions Engineer (100% Remote)

Company Description

Citizant is a leading provider of professional IT services to the U.S. government. We seek to address some of our country’s most pressing challenges in the areas of Agile application development, Enterprise Data Management, Enterprise Architecture, and Program Management support services – focusing on the U.S. Departments of Homeland Security and Treasury. We strive to hire only ethical, talented, passionate, and committed “A Players” who already align with the company’s core values: Drive, Excellence, Reputation, Responsibility, and a Better Future. No matter how large we grow, Citizant will retain its collaborative, supportive, small-company culture, where successful team effort to address external and internal customer challenges is valued above all individual contributions.

Job Description

• Conduct business and technical discovery with customers.
• Provide robust recommendations for engagements while also identifying critical dependencies & gaps.
• Problem solve novel solutions, architectures and use cases to help customers meet their objectives.
• Balance of business and technology acumen, including ability to articulate high level technical solutions to business problems and to tie your solutions to program success criteria.
• Experience working in a top-tier technical consulting or software development.
• Strong drive to solve customer problems and drive projects end to end from ideation to deployment.
• Create information artifacts and reports from EA data repositories.
• Support updates and maintenance of the Technical Reference Model
• Capable of independently applying a wide set of engineering disciplines for
  planning, design, analysis, coding, testing, roll-out and support of information
  systems architectures.

Qualifications

• 7 years experience in design, analysis, and implementation of information systems architecture. (Must include extensive experience with enterprise architecture and development best practices.)
• Ability to evaluate current state and recommend the adoption of new technologies, while providing detailed specifications and expected outcomes of proposed recommendations.
• Ability to provide guidance on balancing competing aspects such as security, cost, performance, and functionality.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• The ability to communicate architectural decisions to a varied audience including business and technology stakeholder.
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills, including ability to create clear observations, analysis and conclusions based on customer interviews and data.
• Must feel comfortable communicating with both technical resources and senior management / executives.
• Team player who can collaborate with multiple stakeholders to arrive at the best solution.

 Nice to Have's:

• Certified Solution Architect (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Cyber Security certification
• Agile Development

Education:

• Must have a Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field

Clearance Requirement:

• Must be a US Citizen
• Must be able to obtain a Public Trust Security Clearance

Additional Information

Citizant strives to be an employer of choice in the Washington metropolitan area. Citizant associates accept challenging and rewarding work and in return receive excellent compensation and benefits, as well as the opportunity for personal and professional development.
Citizant is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.