Solutions Architect ICL

The Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) is the nonprofit applied research division of the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech).Founded in 1934 as the Engineering Experiment Station GTRI has grown to more than 2900 employees supporting eight laboratories in over 20 locations around the country and performing more than $940 million of problem-solving research annually for government and renowned researchers combine science engineering economics policy and technical expertise to solve complex problems for the U.S. federal government state and industry.

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The Information and Communications Laboratory is a fundamental and applied research laboratory focused on transdisciplinary research across the entire information science hierarchy. The laboratory of 200 research and support personnel executes $50M of funded research per year. ICLs fundamental strength is Information Science a discipline that investigates the properties and behavior of data and information the flow of data and information in systems and the means of processing information for optimum accessibility and usability. ICL core research areas include: advanced computing systems AI and ML communications data analytics decision support systems open architectures 5G/FutureG health analytics and informatics secure information sharing radio frequency (RF) propagation modeling software-defined RF systems and STEM education. ICL conducts research that solves complex problems for a range of domains including national security health intelligence law enforcement and justice and economic impact for the state of Georgia.

Candidates will be assessed and placed within a Division/Branch of ICL based on specific skill and experience match to sponsored program needs at time of offer.

The Solution Architect defines conceptualizes describes and manages an engineering solution specific to the enterprise system. Responsible for understanding the architecture design and development of software built for sponsors and running on secure cloud computing networks specifically focusing on fully automated deployments. Additional responsibilities include understanding how integration with third-party software vendors will impact the system and providing guidance on impact to the enterprise. This position will interact with government sponsors and government technical experts to translate business requirements into technical requirements and provide guidance to technical teams for execution of requirements.

• All of Level 4 Plus.
• Leads the practice and introduces the overall technical vision for a particular solution.
• Provides technical leadership to team members.
• Establishes direction for sponsor to support sponsor solution.
• Recommends technical solutions for future work.
• Leads multiple vendor interactions to ensure technical solutions satisfy sponsor needs.
• Actively collaborates with sponsors and external vendors and teams.
• Provides tasking to other team members or stakeholder community based off of derived tasks.
• Review all aspects of project in order to identify enterprise wide risks and briefs management and sponsors with a proposed solution.

• Lead customer engagements on current and potential sponsored research to identify existing gaps develop solutions and propose and capture new work
• Build technology roadmaps for existing and new business areas mapping internal investment opportunities to potential sponsored research pathways
• Hold the role of Principal Investigator / Project Director on sponsored research being responsible for program cost schedule and performance

• Experience leading applied research programs for the Department of Defense/War
• Experience decomposing sponsor needs and gaps into actionable development roadmap

• Experience in product owner or product strategy roles demonstrating expertise in technology roadmap development and execution.
• Demonstrated success in business development and sponsor engagement identifying opportunities building proposals and capturing new funded contracts.

10% - 25% travel

This position vacancy is an open-rank final job offerwill be dependent on candidate qualifications in alignment with Research Faculty Extension Professional ranks as outlined in section 3.2.1 of the Georgia Tech Faculty Handbook

• 14 years of related experience with a Bachelors degree inSystems Engineering Human Systems Engineering Business Administration Software Engineering Computer Science or other related Engineering or Science fields with demonstrated work experience in system/solution architecting and technology roadmap management
• 12 years of related experience with a Masters degree inSystems Engineering Human Systems Engineering Business Administration Software Engineering Computer Science or other related Engineering or Science fields with demonstrated work experience in system/solution architecting and technology roadmap management
• 9 years of related experience with a Ph.D. inSystems Engineering Human Systems Engineering Business Administration Software Engineering Computer Science or other related Engineering or Science fields with demonstrated work experience in system/solution architecting and technology roadmap management

Due to our research contracts with the U.S. federal government candidates for this position must be U.S. Citizens.

Candidates must be able to obtain and maintain an active security clearance.

Comprehensive information on currently offered GTRI benefits including Health & Welfare Retirement Plans Tuition Reimbursement Time Off and Professional Development can be found through this link: Employment Opportunity

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