Iron Bow Technologies is for people who believe trust is paramount, transformation is embraced, and the future is here, because "What we do matters!"
We are a next generation solutions provider, delivering mission success across government, healthcare, and commercial industries. Iron Bow relies on our passionate people, long standing partnerships, and strategic thinking to solve your most critical challenges.
Whether we team with clients, colleagues, or partners, we put each other first. It’s The Iron Bow Way.
THE HIGH LEVEL
The Solutions Architect is a mission-driven technical leader within Iron Bow’s Engagement Engineering team, responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing enterprise network solutions. This role emphasizes post-sales delivery excellence, while also supporting pre-sales efforts through architecture validation, solution scoping, and deliverable development.
As a key member of the engineering organization, this architect works closely with Engagement Engineers, PMO, and Technical Director leadership to ensure high-quality, compliant solutions are delivered that meet customer mission needs, budget constraints, and operational timelines.
WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING
Post-Sales Solution Execution
- Design, implement, and validate advanced and complex networking solutions.
- Translate high-level architectures and customer requirements into high-level designs (HLDs), low-level designs (LLDs), configuration templates, and implementation plans.
- Lead technical delivery engagements, including installation, integration, testing, troubleshooting, and cutover support.
Pre-Sales Enablement Support
- Collaborate with the CTO Office, CSEs, and capture teams to validate technical approaches, refine architectures, and contribute to SoWs, BOMs, and LoE estimates.
- Participate in technical review cycles for proposals, offering delivery-based insights.
Technical Documentation & Quality Control
- Produce and maintain high-quality documentation, including HLD/LLDs, implementation guides, testing procedures, as-built documentation, and customer runbooks.
- Participate in internal peer reviews, providing and receiving feedback to improve consistency, quality, and reusability of technical work products.
- Support internal Quality Control processes and contribute to the development of reusable templates, configuration baselines, and delivery standards.
Mentorship & Growth
- Work under the guidance of the Technical Director to align delivery with architectural intent, customer expectations, and engineering team strategy.
- Mentor engagement engineers and serve as a technical lead within delivery teams, especially on complex or cross-vendor implementations.
- Remain current on emerging technologies by participating in labs, certifications, and internal R&D efforts, then share knowledge with engagement engineers through on-the-job training (OJT), lab sessions, and hands-on enablement.
WHAT YOU BRING TO THE TABLE
- 8–12 years of experience in enterprise networking architecture, engineering, or consulting roles.
- Strong delivery background with hands-on experience deploying Cisco, Aruba and Palo Alto enterprise technologies.
- Proven ability to produce detailed, customer-ready technical documentation and deliver presentations to both engineering and management stakeholders.
- Comfortable participating in both post-sales delivery and pre-sales technical reviews and solution definition.
- Excellent interpersonal skills with ability to work independently or as part of a cross-functional team.
- Certifications: Cisco CCNP required; CCIE preferred.
- Active DoD Secret clearance or the ability to obtain one.
TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS
- Up to 30% travel across the US with some limited international travel required
WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT!
- At our core, we’re a team of hands-on engineers and solution architects who take pride in doing things right. You’ll join a culture built on trust, engineering excellence, and accountability where solving complex problems is part of the everyday mission. We deliver real solutions, earn real trust, and stand behind everything we build. If you take pride in your craft, value teamwork over ego, and want to be part of a team that does what it says, come build something real with us.
- Iron Bow is rapidly growing and with growth comes opportunity for all. There is palpable energy and momentum across the company that is easy to tap into and be inspired by.
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OUR EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER COMMITMENT
Iron Bow Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Iron Bow are based on relevant business considerations, such as operational needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or gender expression, pregnancy, national origin, age, disability, status as a protected veteran or any other characteristic prohibited by law. Iron Bow will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.
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