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Solutions Architect

Category Business Acquisition Job Type Full time Job Id R2101499 Posted Date 02/25/2025
  • Chantilly, Virginia
  • Colorado Springs, Colorado
  • El Segundo, California
  • Dayton, Ohio
  • King of Prussia, Pennsylvania
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JOB DESCRIPTION

Title:

Solutions Architect

KBR’s National Security Solutions team provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the country’s most critical role – protecting our national security.

Why Join Us?

  • Innovative Projects: KBR’s work is at the forefront of engineering, logistics, operations, science, program management, mission IT and cybersecurity solutions.
  • Collaborative Environment: Be part of a dynamic team that thrives on collaboration and innovation, fostering a supportive and intellectually stimulating workplace.
  • Impactful Work: Your contributions will be pivotal in designing and optimizing defense systems that ensure national security and shape the future of space defense.

The National Security Solutions (NSS) Business Unit is seeking a dynamic and experienced Solution Architect with a strong background in creating innovative and customer focused solutions to join our Solution Architect team. US citizenship and an active Secret clearance are required.

This role is pivotal in driving the technical strategy and solution design for business opportunities, ensuring alignment with customer requirements and organizational goals.  The ideal candidate will have a proven track record working in Government, Defense, and Intelligence communities, providing support to capture efforts, proposal writing, and oral presentations. 

This is an exciting opportunity to bring your experience to deliver innovative solutions that help our customers transform, modernize, and accelerate delivery of new capabilities.  If you thrive at the intersection of technology and business development, this is the role for you.

Key Responsibilities:

Responsibilities include engaging in customer shaping efforts, requirements gathering, and proposal support activities, leveraging understanding of industry trends and KBR capabilities to design, develop, and deliver winning proposals.

  • Collaborate with Business Development, Capture, and Proposal teams to craft compelling, technically sound solutions that align with customer needs and win strategies.
  • Act as a subject matter expert in the translation of solution requirements into proposal artifacts.
  • Lead the development of technical volumes for proposals, including writing, reviewing, and editing content to ensure compliance with RFP requirements.
  • Translate customer objectives into innovative technical solutions that address mission challenges while adhering to budget and schedule constraints.
  • Conduct market research, identify discriminators, and articulate value propositions that differentiate our solutions from competitors.
  • Develop comprehensive artifacts such as system designs, technical roadmaps, and implementation plans to support proposal efforts.
  • Participate in reviews to refine proposal content and ensure alignment with win themes.
  • Research emerging technologies and incorporate them into solution designs to enhance competitiveness.
  • Lead and write technical proposals, whitepapers and develop other collaterals in support of technical solutions.
  • Provide responses to request for information (RFI) and government market surveys or sources sought notice.
  • Provide basis of estimates (BOEs) for technical solutions.

Required Qualifications:

  • Requires a bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline with 12-15 years prior experience; or a master’s degree in a technical discipline with 10-13 years of prior relevant experience.
  • Experience leading technical solutioning in partnership with business development and capture management teams; Technical solutioning experience will be in the defense and intelligence community markets for technology-centric business units providing both services and products to US Government customers.
  • The candidate should possess strong team building and leadership capabilities that will engage key internal and external sources to develop clear, concise solutions to difficult problem sets across the DoD and IC. 
  • Proven ability to successfully derive customer solutions based on understanding of customer problems that meet technical objectives within cost and schedule. From this in-depth understanding, the ideal candidate will be able to interact with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), Key Stakeholders (internal to KBR and external), Technical Experts, and other key roles to develop a compelling Solution for strategic growth markets and opportunities aligned with the NSS growth strategy
  • Understanding of Systems, Software, and Agile Engineering current and emerging processes in use across Defense and Intelligence Customer communities such as Digital Engineering, Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), DevSecOps, and Cloud Architectures. 
  • US Citizenship and an active Secret clearance, with ability to obtain TS/SCI

Work Environment:

  • Location: Remote/Hybrid
  • Travel Requirements: Minimal 0-20%
  • Working Hours: Standard

Basic Compensation:

*Compensation for Colorado only: The salary for this position ranges from approximately $154,000 to $231,000.

*Compensation for California only: The salary for this position ranges from approximately $168,000 to $253,000.

*The offered rate will be based on the selected candidate’s knowledge, skills, abilities and/or experience and in consideration of internal parity.

Ready to Make a Difference?

If you’re excited about making a significant impact in the field of space defense and working on projects that matter, we encourage you to apply and join our team at KBR. Let's shape the future together.

KBR Benefits

KBR offers a selection of competitive lifestyle benefits which could include 401K plan with company match, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, AD&D, flexible spending account, disability, paid time off, or flexible work schedule. We support career advancement through professional training and development.

Belong, Connect and Grow at KBR

At KBR, we are passionate about our people and our Zero Harm culture.  These inform all that we do and are at the heart of our commitment to, and ongoing journey toward being a People First company.  That commitment is central to our team of team’s philosophy and fosters an environment where everyone can Belong, Connect and Grow. We Deliver – Together. 

KBR is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

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