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Title:Solutions Architect

Location- Hybrid: Columbia, MD

Company Background

A P Ventures, LLC (APV) is an innovative Woman-Owned Small Business (WOSB) providing services to Government customers at the federal and state levels in three key focus areas: High-End IT Consulting, Emerging Technology and Training Solutions, and Human Capital Services. Established in 2007, APV has completed 70+ prime contracts and currently oversees 25+ task orders, consistently achieving high client satisfaction, CPARS, and customer accolades. Our success is fueled by our skilled and motivated workforce, reflected in our impressive employee retention rate exceeding 90%.

APV has a wide portfolio of contracts and Best-in-Class contract vehicles, including GSA MAS, OASIS Small Business, and 8(a) Pool 1, CIO-SP3 SB and 8(a) across all functional areas, HCaTS, and several other industry-specific BPA and IDIQs.

APV is a mature company dedicated to quality and exceptional delivery to meet its clients missions. We understand personnel are an essential part of this. We hire the best and take care of the people who come to work for us. We continue to maintain employee satisfaction and have a high retention rate, well above the industry average for our small business peers. We do this through our corporate practice that emphasizes on employee satisfaction through the three Cs - Culture, Compensation, and Career Development.

Job Duties:

• Engage with internal teams to understand and architect technical solutions, facilitate solutions design, and manage implementations.
• Participate in the requirements gathering sessions to understand business needs and provide inputs to the technical requirements.
• Develop and provide presentations and demonstrations of technology solutions to both internal and external stakeholders as needed.
• Design and develop specific solutions leveraging technologies and design practices that enable a scalable, extensible, and flexible solution.
• Contribute to the design and architecture of software and infrastructure to ensure projects meet goals and should be able to clearly articulate and present the implications of design/architectural decisions, issues, and plans to leadership.
• Review the solution, in the implementation and post deployment phases, to validate that the final solution matches the original approved design and architecture.
• Work with engineering team to integrate approved solutions into the existing infrastructure and proactively identify associated potential risks and pitfalls involved, translate technical needs, and remove technical barriers.
• Responsible for recommending and developing technical architectures, tools and processes that support the automation of environment management, build, testing, deployment, and support processes.
• Assist with builds and design of high-level architecture presentation and documentation.
• Collaborate with other teams in the organization to define supporting infrastructure and software tools needed to enable COTS based best practices in a large-scale environment.
• Develop reusable patterns and encourage innovation that will enable team velocity.
• Learn and analyze new technologies and industry best practices to identify suitability for adoption by the organization.
• Review, guide, and support RFIs, RFPs and RFQs, response development including writing of whitepapers and concept development.
• Provide technical solution support during proposal process, to include technology stack, solution architecture, and implementation methodology.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree required in the field of computer science or equivalent. Masters degree a plus.
• 10+ years of experience designing and implementing enterprise solutions with working knowledge across numerous technology platforms.
• Experience working on a large-scale IT project with FDA and familiar with FDA ODT initiat ves. Familiarity with EPLC process.
• Experience across many of the following areas (listed in priority): Digital Transformation and Application Modernization, Cloud Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, COTS, Low Code Platforms, Data Model, Agile development, Robotic Process Animation (RPA), Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT)
• Strong working knowledge of Enterprise Software Design Patterns and Cloud Software Architecture

Preferred Qualifications:

• Works on significant and unique issues where analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangibles.
• Consistently works on complex assignments requiring independent action and a high degree of initiative to resolve issues.
• Exercises independent judgment in methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
• Demonstrated ability to build trusted advisor relationships with clients
• Knowledge of emerging trends and may contribute to and influence best practices within the discipline.
• Great oral and written communications

About A P Ventures

A P Ventures, LLC is a full-service IT consulting company headquartered in Columbia, MD. We are one of the fastest-growing IT companies in the Washington DC-metro area, and are a prime vendor with various federal, State, and Local agencies. Learn more at www.apvit.com.

A P Ventures is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, gender, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, or marital status.