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Industry: Information Technology/IT

Employment Type: Contract

Experience Required: Mid-Senior Level

Job Description:

Build What Matters, Simply and Efficiently

Agilious leads with a singular purpose – to empower organizations to build digital solutions that truly serve people by simplifying software delivery and eliminating waste. With over 20 years of experience in strategy, design, engineering, and data, our clients count on us not just to deliver technology, but to strengthen your teams with the skills, training, and strategy they need to create real, user-focused impact at scale.

About the Role

Agilious is seeking an experienced Solution Architect to design and drive the development of cutting-edge, scalable software applications, translating complex business requirements into robust, cloud-native technical blueprints and ensuring seamless implementation from concept to deployment. As a consultant for Agilious, you will be instrumental in defining and shaping technical strategy across a range of high-priority domains, including IT modernization, software development, data analytics, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) programs.

The Solution Architect serves as a critical bridge between customer mission outcomes and technical execution. Your primary responsibility will be to think strategically about complex customer challenges while providing the technical depth required to design architectures that are feasible, compliant, and highly competitive.

Location/Remote: This position is primarily remote, with select day(s) working from a location in the DC-MD-VA metro region.

Clearance: Public Trust Clearance must be obtainable

What You’ll Do

As a Solution Architect, you will:

• Solution Design: Analyze business needs and design comprehensive, end-to-end architectural solutions (microservices, event-driven, etc.).  Present solution concepts, roadmaps, staffing strategies, and architectures to customer stakeholders.
• Technology Strategy: Select appropriate tech stacks, platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), languages C#, (.Net Core, Java, Python, low/no-code, etc.), and tools.
• Guidance & Oversight: Provide technical leadership, guide development teams, and ensure adherence to architectural standards.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Act as the bridge between business stakeholders, management, and development teams, communicating vision and progress.
• Modern Practices: Champion Agile, DevOps, and cloud-native principles throughout the lifecycle.
• Quality & Risk:Ensure solutions are scalable, performant, secure, and cost-effective; manage technical risks.
• Prototyping & POCs:Develop proofs of concept to validate solutions.
• Mission Alignment: Ensure that all designed solutions are strategically aligned with the customer’s mission and agency-level goals. Engage directly with Federal and DoD customers to understand mission requirements and technical challenges.
• Business Development & Capture: Work closely with Business Development (BD), Business Analyst, and Proposal Teams to shape and influence early-stage pursuits and develop tailored technical strategies.
• Staffing & Execution Planning: Develop staffing plans, levels of effort (LOEs), and work breakdown structures (WBSs) to ensure solutions are executable, cost-effective, and compliant with solicitation requirements. Collaborate with pricing and program management teams to balance technical approach, staffing, and cost competitiveness.
• Proposal Development: Serve as the lead technical author/reviewer, ensuring that all proposal content is compliant, compelling, and maximizes our Probability of Win (pWin).

Other similar professional duties may be assigned as needed

Key Skills and Qualifications:

Must have at least minimum 10 years of industry experience in this role or a similar role.

• Experience with Enterprise Architecture, and creating enterprise roadmaps
• Solution Architecture, particularly with software integrations, COTS integrations, SaaS, IaaS and PaaS implementations
• Experience with hybrid-cloud solution design and implementation
• Understanding of AI-based Software Delivery, and full SDLC implementation
• Understanding of Agentic AI frameworks and AI based workflow technologies
• Experience with various database technologies, including NoSQL & RDBMS, and knowledge of data architectures, database design and interface designs
• Experience with API gateways and Zero-Trust Architectures and understanding of AI Gateways
• Experience with Container & Serverless technologies and implementation on AWS, Azure of GCP  
• Experience with DevSecOps practices, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Automatons 
• Understanding of Machine Learning concepts and LLMs
• Adept at delivering complex digital projects, breaking down barriers to the team, and both planning at a higher level and getting into the details to make things happen when needed.
• Proven experience supporting Federal or DoD proposals as a Solution Architect or Technical Lead.
• Experience setting up teams for successful delivery by removing obstacles (or blockers to progress), and constantly helping the team to become more self-organizing.
• Enterprise-level experience with large and complex IT modernization efforts, specifically including the successful delivery of IT software solutions
• Experience developing solutions and architectures for cloud-based, hybrid, and on-premises environments.
• Proven experience in architecting complex web/software applications.
• Deep understanding of software architecture, design patterns, and styles (microservices, serverless).
• Expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and cloud-native architectures.
• Proficiency in modern development practices (Agile, CI/CD, DevOps).
• Strong programming background (Java, Python, C#) and hands-on technical ability.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills. 

• Nice if you have experience with Analytical Platforms like Databricks or Snowflake

   

Education and Training

• A Bachelor’s or post-graduate degree in IT, computer science, software engineering, or equivalent.
• Master’s Degree in a related field preferred
• Certificates to demonstrate knowledge and competency. 
• Knowledgeable about all phases of the software development life cycle and solution delivery for web, client-server, and cloud-based systems.
• Subject matter expertise in the field of work.
• Good knowledge of modern software engineering principles and best practices.

• Proven track record of work experience as an architect, project manager, or developer.

   

Why Work at Agilious 

At Agilious, we put our people first. As a team-focused company, we foster a collaborative environment where every contractor has a voice, opportunities to develop professionally, and the support to thrive. If you’re looking for a career where you can learn, contribute, and grow, we’d love to hear from you.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. 

At this time, Agilious is unable to provide sponsorship for employment authorization for this position.

The minimum and maximum hourly rate for this role are listed below. 

Hourly Rate: $72 – $79

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Industry: Information Technology/IT

Employment Type: Full Time

Experience Required: Mid-Senior Level

Job Description:

Agile Project Manager with Business Analysis Expertise

Build What Matters, Simply and Efficiently

Agilious leads with a singular purpose – to empower organizations to build digital solutions that truly serve people by simplifying software delivery and eliminating waste. With over 20 years of experience in strategy, design, engineering, and data, our clients count on us not just to deliver technology but to strengthen their teams with the skills, training, and strategy they need to create real, user-focused impact at scale.

About the Role
Agilious is seeking a skilled Project Manager to join our Agile software product development practice supporting a Federal Government Digital Services program. Our cross-functional teams work closely with customers and end users to design, build, and deliver modern digital products and easy-to-use, enterprise-grade web applications that solve complex
problems and create meaningful impact. 

As a Project Manager, you will be at the center of a fast-paced, collaborative delivery environment. You will work across customers, stakeholders, Product Owners, and technical teams to translate business needs into actionable plans and ensure projects move from concept to delivery with clarity and momentum.

You will be trusted to make timely, informed decisions; proactively manage risks and dependencies; and keep teams focused on delivering high-quality solutions that meet customer needs. The role requires someone who can balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution and bring structure, transparency, and accountability to Agile software
delivery.

Location: 100% Remote
Clearance: Ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance required; active HSPD-12 clearance
highly desired.

Position Overview
As an Agile Project Manager / Business Analyst, you will own customer-facing delivery for IT solutions, serving as the critical bridge between customers, business stakeholders, Product Owners, and technical delivery teams. You will lead Agile software development initiatives from discovery and requirements through delivery, while ensuring projects remain aligned to customer needs, organizational priorities, schedule, scope, and budget.

The ideal candidate combines strong Agile project management, business analysis, stakeholder management, and software delivery skills. You are comfortable working with both technical and non-technical stakeholders and can translate business needs into actionable requirements while keeping teams focused on delivering meaningful outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

Agile Delivery & Product Development

• Lead cross-functional Agile teams through the planning, development, testing, and delivery of software products and features.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and release planning.
• Partner with Product Owners, developers, UX/designers, QA professionals, and subject matter experts to ensure successful delivery.
• Remove impediments and proactively address dependencies, risks, and issues that may impact delivery.
  Support the development and enhancement of lightweight business applications, prototypes, and proof-of-concept initiatives.
• Ensure development activities follow Agile principles, established engineering practices, and customer expectations.
• Identify opportunities to improve team processes, delivery practices, and overall organizational efficiency.

Business Analysis & Requirements
 

• Elicit and analyze business needs through stakeholder interviews, workshops, observation, document analysis, and other discovery techniques.
• Translate business objectives and user needs into clear epics, features, user stories, workflows, and acceptance criteria.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and technical teams to define requirements that are feasible, testable, and aligned to business outcomes.
• Serve as a liaison between business stakeholders and technical teams, translating technical constraints into business implications and business needs into actionable technical requirements.
• Manage, organize, and continuously refine product backlogs and feature priorities in partnership with the Product Owner.
• Review prototypes and proposed solutions to validate that they address business and user needs.
• Develop and/or support test scenarios, test cases, and acceptance criteria.
• Coordinate and support User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and resolution of identified issues.

Project Management

• Own project scope, schedule, dependencies, and delivery plans while maintaining a focus on the regular and timely delivery of value.
• Establish and maintain project plans, milestones, deliverables, and dependencies. 
• Lead project status meetings, working sessions, and stakeholder reviews.
• Monitor project progress, identify variances, and take corrective action when necessary.
• Manage project risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies and develop mitigation and contingency plans collaboratively with the team.
• Monitor project forecasts and costs to ensure delivery remains on schedule, within scope, and within budget.
• Establish and maintain monthly budget burn-down reporting and provide clear financial and delivery status to stakeholders.
• Manage changes to project scope, schedule, and cost while maintaining alignment with customer and stakeholder expectations.
• Ensure project tasks and deliverables are completed, appropriately tested, and documented.
• Provide transparent, accurate, and timely reporting to Product Owners, stakeholders, and customer leadership.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive project documentation, including status reports, project plans, decision logs, requirements, and training materials as appropriate.
• Establish and continuously improve project management and delivery practices based on Agile principles and industry best practices.
   

Customer & Stakeholder Management

• Build strong, trusted relationships with customers and stakeholders at all levels.
• Communicate project progress, risks, issues, decisions, and tradeoffs clearly and proactively.
• Facilitate conversations that bring business and technical stakeholders to alignment.
• Communicate complex technical concepts in a clear and accessible manner to non-technical audiences.
• Understand customer priorities and proactively identify opportunities to improve outcomes.
• Maintain a calm, solutions-oriented approach when navigating complex, ambiguous, or time-sensitive situations.

Team Leadership & Development

• Create an environment in which team members are empowered, engaged, and accountable for their commitments.
• Help teams identify and remove roadblocks that impact productivity or delivery.
• Leverage organizational resources to improve team capacity and effectiveness.
• Coach and mentor team members in Agile practices, collaboration, and effective delivery.
• Promote sustainable delivery practices while maintaining a high standard of quality.
• Foster collaboration, transparency, accountability, and continuous improvement across the team.

Experience & Qualifications

• 8–10 years of experience managing software development or IT projects, with at least 5 years of experience in a Federal Government environment.
• Proven track record of successfully delivering software development projects using Agile methodologies.
• 7+ years of experience working with Scrum/Agile methodologies, preferably within enterprise-level application development environments.
• Demonstrated experience working across the full software development lifecycle (SDLC), from discovery and requirements through development, testing, deployment, and sustainment.
• Strong understanding of both Agile and traditional project management principles, with the ability to tailor the approach to the project, customer, and organizational environment.
• Demonstrated business analysis experience, including requirements elicitation, user story development, process/workflow analysis, acceptance criteria, and UAT.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams that include developers, business analysts,QA professionals, UX/designers, and subject matter experts.
• Strong understanding of business needs and the ability to translate them into actionable product and delivery requirements.
• Proven ability to manage competing priorities, dependencies, risks, and stakeholder
  expectations.
• Strong analytical, planning, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills, including facilitation, collaboration, coaching, mentoring, and team building.
• Proven ability to influence and lead without direct authority while establishing
  credibility and trust.
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences, including senior executives.
• Accountable, proactive, and solutions-oriented approach to managing critical and time-sensitive situations.
• Demonstrated commitment to continuous learning, process improvement, and professional growth.

Tools & Technical Skills
 

• Experience with Agile project and backlog management tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, VSTS/TFS, Rally, VersionOne, or equivalent.
• Experience with Microsoft Project or equivalent project planning tools.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office/365, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams.
• Familiarity with software development, testing, deployment, and DevSecOps practices.
• Ability to understand and discuss technical concepts, architectures, dependencies, and constraints with engineering teams.

Education & Certifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.
• PMP or PMI-ACP certification preferred.
• Scrum Master, SAFe, Agile, or business analysis certification is a plus.
   

Why Work at Agilious
At Agilious, people come first. We believe great work happens when people feel trusted, supported, and empowered to contribute. As a team-focused company, we foster a collaborative environment where every voice is valued, professional growth is encouraged, and employees have the opportunity to do meaningful work and make an impact. If you’re looking for a place where you can learn, contribute, grow, and work alongside people who care about what they do, we’d love to have you join us.

Our Benefits
 

• Health, Dental & Vision Insurance: Comprehensive coverage to support your health and well-being
• Supplemental Benefits: Life insurance and short- and long-term disability coverage
• 401(k) Plan: Employer contributions and annual profit-sharing opportunities
• Paid Time Off & Holidays: Generous PTO, federal holidays, and floating holidays to support work-life balance
• Professional Development: Robust opportunities and resources to expand your skills and advance your career
• Employee Assistance Program: Confidential support and resources for a wide range of personal and life events
   

Equal Opportunity Employer

Agilious is an equal opportunity employer committed to building an inclusive and diverse workplace. We value the unique perspectives, experiences, and contributions of every employee and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.

*Agilious is unable to provide sponsorship for employment at this time. 

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