This is a U.S. based position. All of the programs we support require U.S. citizenship to be eligible for employment. All work must be conducted within the continental U.S.

Who we are:

Raft (https://goraft.tech) is a customer-obsessed non-traditional small business with a purposeful focus on Distributed Data Systems, Platforms at Scale, and Complex Application Development, with headquarters in Reston, VA. Our range of clients include innovative federal and public agencies leveraging design thinking, cutting edge tech stack, and cloud native ecosystem. We build digital solutions that impact the lives of millions of Americans.

We’re looking for an experienced

 Senior Director of Solutions Architecture. The role will be dedicated to being able to understand (deeply) all projects at Raft, pair with PMs, and Tech Leads, and write RFIs/RFPs.

What we are looking for: 

Ability to take highly complex ideas and explain them in plain language English
Ability to zoom into the details but also zoom out at an abstract level
Experience in Gov Con – preferably in DoD
Understanding of shaping and solutioning with stakeholders
Hands-on experience building solutions, but now you're passionate about writing about them as well in white papers, proposals, blog posts, etc.
You are technical with experience and can build a solution if you put your time and energy towards it
You are a people person and like combining with other teams to learn what they're doing, attending their sprint planning, and embedding yourself into the ecosystem
You have written white papers, RFI's, and RFPs in the past and pride yourself on winning
Will support technical hiring and staffing architecture across all of Raft

Highly preferred:

Experience being in the DoD around modernization around Platform, Data, and/or App Dev
Deeply technical background and eagerness to constantly learn
You'd like to remain 25% with hands-on building
Ability to Travel – up to 20%

Clearance Requirements: 

Active Security Clearance

Work Type: 

Remote

What we will offer you:

Highly competitive salary
Fully covered healthcare, dental, and vision coverage
401(k) and company match
Take as you need PTO + 11 paid holidays
Education & training benefits
Annual budget for your tech/gadgets needs
Monthly box of yummy snacks to eat while doing meaningful work
Team off-site in fun places!
Generous Referral Bonuses
And More!

Our Vision Statement:

We bridge the gap between humans and data through radical transparency and our obsession with the mission.

Our Customer Obsession:

We will approach every deliverable like it's a product. We will adopt a customer-obsessed mentality. As we grow, and our footprint becomes larger, teams and employees will treat each other not only as teammates but customers. We must live the customer-obsessed mindset, always. This will help us scale and it will translate to the interactions that our Rafters have with their clients and other product teams that they integrate with. Our culture will enable our success and set us apart from other companies.

How do we get there?

Public-sector modernization is critical for us to live in a better world. We, at Raft, want to innovate and solve complex problems. And, if we are successful, our generation and the ones that follow us will live in a delightful, efficient, and accessible world where out-of-box thinking, and collaboration is a norm.

Raft’s core philosophy is Ubuntu: I Am, Because We are. We support our “nadi” by elevating the other Rafters. We work as a hyper collaborative team where each team member brings a unique perspective, adding value that did not exist before. People make Raft special. We celebrate each other and our cognitive and cultural diversity. We are devoted to our practice of innovation and collaboration.

We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.