Solutions Architect

AvantGarde, LLC (AG) seeks to engage a Solutions Architect to serve as a strategic technical advisor, guiding the evaluation, selection, and adoption of enterprise platforms to ensure mission and business needs are met with the most effective, secure, and sustainable solutions. This individual will support AG’s Client, the United States Capitol Police (Legislative Branch) Office of Information Systems (OIS). This role ensures that platform decisions are made through a structured, repeatable, and transparent process, balancing functionality, cost, security, integration complexity, and future scalability. The role provides both strategic guidance and high-level design support to ensure selected solutions are feasible, compliant, and positioned for successful implementation. The Solutions Architect supports enterprise technology planning and solution alignment activities by helping translate mission and operational needs into practical, sustainable technology approaches aligned with established enterprise standards and governance processes. The role works closely with business, technical, cybersecurity, and delivery stakeholders to support solution planning, implementation coordination, and architecture documentation activities across enterprise initiatives.

Remote work options (2 days per week) are available after a brief acclimation period.

• Facilitate collaboration among business, technical, cybersecurity, and operational stakeholders throughout solution planning and implementation activities.
• Assist in evaluating emerging technologies and platform capabilities to support evolving mission and operational needs.
• Develop recommendation materials, tradeoff analyses, and supporting documentation for stakeholder review and decision-making.
• Maintain documentation of systems, integrations, and platform relationships to support operational visibility and solution planning.
• Evaluate proposed solutions for operational fit, maintainability, scalability, and alignment with approved enterprise platforms and standards.
• Identify and communicate implementation considerations, dependencies, and operational impacts to project stakeholders.
• Coordinate with project, governance, and technical teams to support alignment with established delivery and review processes.
• Support development of solution documentation, implementation guidance, and reusable technical reference materials.
• Participate in architecture review and standards alignment activities to support consistent, secure, and sustainable solution implementation.
• Present findings and recommendations to technical and non‑technical audiences, enabling informed decision‑making across leadership and delivery teams.
• Ensure platform decisions are aligned with enterprise strategy, security requirements, and long‑term sustainability.
• Deliver well‑reasoned, evidence‑based platform recommendations that reduce rework, minimize risk, and accelerate delivery.
• Collaborate with platform owners, developers, cybersecurity, and governance teams to ensure selected solutions can be delivered effectively and securely.
• Create high‑level solution designs that outline major components, integrations, data flows, and compliance considerations.
• Produce clear, defensible recommendations that articulate tradeoffs, rationale, and alignment with enterprise standards.
• Assess platform options (ServiceNow, M365, or other approved tools) for capability fit, integration patterns, security posture, licensing implications, and long‑term sustainability.
• Develop and maintain a repeatable decision framework for evaluating enterprise platforms, ensuring consistency, traceability, and alignment with established architecture standards.
• Lead and analyze requirements discovery with business, mission, and IT stakeholders to understand functional needs, constraints, and desired outcomes.