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Senior Solutions Architect

Overview

The Air Education and Training Command (AETC) recruits, trains, and educates Airmen to deliver 21stcentury airpower. To support this mission, AETC operates AWAKENan enterprisemanaged, accredited wireless and network service spanning training facilities, flight lines, classrooms, auditoriums, dorms, and administrative areas across the United States.

As a Senior Solutions Architect, you will serve as the technical lead for a major Air Force network modernization program. You will shape the evolution of the AWAKEN Enterprise architecture, delivering secure, scalable, highperformance solutions that directly enhance the training mission of the U.S. Air Force.

This role contributes to a nationwide effort to modernize connectivity, deploy nextgeneration capabilities, and ensure reliable, missioncritical network performance for those who serve.

Your Impact

In this role, you will:

• Lead enterprise architecture design and technical improvements for the AWAKEN network.
• Guide the modernization of AETCs commercial network infrastructure, including 5G integration, terrestrial connectivity, network resilience, and optimized performance.
• Serve as the technical authority for solution design, feasibility, implementation, and longterm architectural direction.
• Work closely with government stakeholders to align technology solutions with mission needs, security requirements, and emerging operational demands.
• Support endtoend testing, troubleshooting, and engineering validation to ensure reliable connectivity for mission systems and users.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for a largescale Air Force network modernization and operations program.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend missionaligned solutions.
• Architect endtoend enterprise solutions that support cloudnative, softwaredefined, and zerotrust frameworks.
• Guide implementation teams to ensure accurate and effective technical execution.
• Lead complex troubleshooting efforts to resolve enterprise connectivity and performance challenges.
• Develop technical options, costbenefit analyses, and futurestate architectural roadmaps.
• Collaborate with business analysts, engineers, testers, and program leadership to align priorities and deliver mission value.
• Engage with government partners as a trusted technical advisor, communicating effectively across varying technical backgrounds.
• Maintain regular coordination with the Program Manager, providing updates, recommendations, and technical insight.
• Support ModelBased Systems Engineering (MBSE), lab testing, and predeployment validation activities.
• Apply critical thinking and professional judgment to address issues impacting performance, security, and mission delivery.

Location: CONUS (with periodic travel as required)

Clearance: Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret clearance
Customer: Air Education and Training Command (AETC), United States Air Force

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Network Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 20+ years of experience in enterprise IT architecture, systems engineering, or network modernization.
• 4+ years leading technical teams or efforts on large programs.
• 2+ years of handson experience in solution architecture.
• Expertise in scalable, cloudintegrated, and modern network designs.
• Experience with Agile and Lean methodologies.
• Strong criticalthinking, analytical, and problemsolving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to brief senior business and government stakeholders.
• Technical skills: Experience Architecting large scale software systems, Modular Open Systems Approaches, Full stack software development experience, experience writing DoW proposals/whitepapers, Agile DevSecOps with automated CI/CD, Some Experience with AI Assisted DevSecOps, Cloud Architecture, and Infrastructure as Code
• Participate in PMRs and CCBs; maintain enterprise baseline and CM Plan; provide artifacts (topologies, inventories, rack elevations, ports/protocols) and readonly visibility to Government tools/portals
• Security clearance level: Must have Secret clearance to start and ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret
• US citizenship required
• Strong Communications skills both written and verbal, Leadership skills, management, Software architecture across microservices, event-driven systems, and modular monoliths. Mission-focused mindset with strong operational empathy. Ability to communicate complex architectures to technical and non-technical audiences. Comfortable operating with ambiguity and high-consequence environments

Desired Qualifications

• Experience with network engineering, 5G technologies, and enterprise WiFi architectures.
• Familiarity with Air Force or DoW network environments and operational constraints.
• DoWM 8140.03aligned cyber workforce qualification or willingness to obtain
• Preferred requirements: experience working on federal proposals; some understanding of Model Based Systems Engineering would be ideal
• Experience with SAFe practices, Jira/Confluence, and ServiceNow in DoW environments.

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