Strategic Director Jobs in Reston, VA (NOW HIRING)

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Solution Street is looking for a highly experienced and strategic Director/Managing Director to drive business growth, client delivery, and team leadership in this role. This leader will oversee enterprise-scale client engagements, drive business development locally in the Mid-Market and Enterprise space, and ensure the delivery of innovative, high-quality software solutions that meet complex business needs. The role demands a balance of operational excellence, client relationship management, and market expansion expertise.

Business Leadership & Growth

• Develop and execute a business strategy to expand consultancy services with Mid-Market and Enterprise clients in the DMV.

• Own revenue targets, pipeline development, and profitability for assigned prospects and accounts in the pursuit of a 2 - 3M book of business.

• Identify new growth opportunities and collaborate with marketing and the balance of the leadership team to drive demand generation.

• Represent the consultancy as a thought leader in digital transformation, modern software architectures, and emerging technologies.

Client Engagement & Delivery Oversight

• Serve as executive sponsor for large-scale custom application development projects, ensuring quality outcomes and client satisfaction.

• Build trusted advisor relationships with senior client stakeholders across technology and business functions.

• Oversee portfolio governance, project risk management, and contract negotiations to ensure engagements deliver measurable ROI for clients.

• Provide guidance on solution approaches, system architecture, and development best practices to support delivery teams.

• Play a billable role in project management, senior business analysis, and/or advisory role up to 30% of time depending on portfolio revenue requirements.

Team & Organizational Leadership

• Mentor, coach, and grow a high-performing team of consultants, solution architects, and project leaders.

• Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement across delivery and sales functions.

• Partner with internal leadership to refine delivery methodologies, knowledge management, and talent development strategies.

• Contribute to recruiting and retaining top-tier technical and consulting talent.

Skills and Qualifications:

• 12+ years of professional experience in technology consulting, software engineering, or related fields, with at least 5+ years in a leadership role.

• Proven track record of leading complex software development initiatives for Mid-Market and Enterprise clients.

• Strong understanding of modern application development practices (cloud-native architectures, APIs/microservices, agile/DevOps, data integration, AI/ML solutions).

• Demonstrated success in business development, client account growth, and P&L management.

• Ability to develop and maintain strong relationships with others (internal and external)

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; proven analytical and problem solving skills; detail oriented;

• Experience using JIRA as a project management tool

• Experience with wireframing preferred

About Solution Street

At Solution Street, our employees have many opportunities to work on interesting, challenging projects supporting clients in various domains primarily in the commercial space. Our company culture thrives on our five core values: Honesty, Respect, Transparency, Dependability, and FUN! They're embedded in everything we do and how we do it!

Solution Street, a software engineering firm, was founded by a software developer who envisioned a safe haven for software engineers who wanted to work on interesting, fun projects. Since 2002, we’ve stuck by this principle and as a result, we’ve developed long, lasting relationships with our clients and have a team of great developers who love what they do.

We enjoy working with cutting edge technologies and providing solutions to complex business problems. Our employees are experts in building large, highly scalable and well performing web applications using many technologies. We are Microsoft and AWS partners.

At Solution Street we value all employees and job candidates as unique individuals, and we welcome the variety of experiences they bring to our organization. As such, we have a strict non-discrimination policy. We believe everyone should be treated equally regardless of race, sex, gender identification, sexual orientation, national origin, native language, religion, age, disability, marital status, citizenship, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other characteristic protected by law.

What's In It for You?

We offer a relaxed, fun, flexible, working environment with competitive salary + bonus + 100% paid health/dental to employee + life insurance + PTO + long-term and short-term disability + 401(k). Solution Street automatically contributes to employees' 401(k) plans. We are passionate about technology and we share our thoughts and discoveries in our monthly newsletters.
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As required by law, Solution Street has provided a good-faith estimate of the compensation range for this position. The compensation offered to a selected candidate will be based on a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, relevant skills, experience, education, training, certifications, licensure, and other job-related qualifications. To maintain opportunities for salary growth and reward strong performance over time, new hires are generally not placed at the top of the compensation range. Final compensation is determined based on the specific facts and circumstances of each candidate and the position.