Solutions Architect Manager Jobs in District of Columbia
Solutions Architect Manager jobs in District of Columbia are among the most active in the country, concentrated in federal IT contracting, cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, and defense technology. The heaviest hiring is in Washington DC, Bethesda, and the Northern Virginia corridor, where major contractors and tech firms like Leidos, Booz Allen Hamilton, and General Dynamics Information Technology maintain large presences. The most in-demand specialties are cloud migration leadership, enterprise architecture for federal agencies, and security-focused solutions delivery. Scan the live roles below and apply to whichever ones fit.
Find JobsOverview
Showing 5 of 27+ Solutions Architect Manager jobs
Become a part of our caring community
The Lead Solutions Architect works with user groups to solve business problems with available technology including hardware, software, databases, and peripherals. The Lead Solutions Architect works on problems of diverse scope and complexity ranging from moderate to substantial.Job Description Summary
The Lead Solutions Architect provides architecture leadership for CenterWell Home Health programs and platforms, shaping conceptual and reference architectures, governing solution designs, and aligning delivery teams to cloud and data strategies. The scope includes high-priority initiatives as well as interoperability and provider-data integrations that span CenterWell and Humana Insurance.
You will operate within CenterWell IT – Cross-CenterWell Architecture. You will collaborate with product, engineering, EA Activation, security, data, and operations. You will engage governance forums to enable Integrated Health across CenterWell and Humana Insurance.
Key Activities
- Quickly conduct structured knowledge transfer with existing architects and relevant stakeholders to capture critical in-flight designs and decisions.
- Review current initiatives and establish an architectural roadmap aligned with organizational priorities.
- Develop or refine reference architectures and design patterns for core platforms and solutions.
- Collaborate with governance and compliance teams to validate designs against enterprise standards and regulatory requirements.
- Define integration strategies and solution blueprints for key systems and data flows.
- Establish architecture review processes and decision forums to support delivery readiness and quality assurance.
Demonstrated depth in:
- Agent orchestration (tools/function calling, planning, memory, multi-agent collaboration)
- Enterprise guardrails (security, compliance, responsible AI)
- Robust MLOps/LLMOps practices for observability, evaluation, and cost/performance optimization
- Proven ability to integrate AI systems with event-driven microservices, vector databases/feature stores, and CI/CD pipelines, while leading reference architectures and cross-cloud patterns that scale reliably.
- Executive-level communication and stakeholder management across product, engineering, and enterprise functions.
Core Responsibilities
- Architectural Leadership: Own end-to-end solution architecture for Home Health initiatives, translating business outcomes into composable designs across systems of experience, operations, and insight.
- Reference Architectures & Patterns: Author and maintain reference architectures for data platform, clinical documents NLP, RPA/automation, and interoperability patterns; steward pattern reuse across CenterWell when applicable.
- Governance & Compliance: Lead architecture checkpoints and risk reviews; ensure designs conform to enterprise guardrails and privacy/security requirements. Participate in governance forums (e.g., ARB, TRB, MOR).
- Delivery Enablement: Partner with product and engineering to convert conceptual designs into executable architectural runways; de-risk delivery with measurable non-functional requirements (NFRs).
- Data & Integration Strategy: Define integration contracts and domain boundaries for provider data, EMR, and Snowflake/Databricks/Azure data platforms; ensure observability, lineage, and data protection.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with CenterWell leaders, EA Activation, security, and segment CIO teams; communicate decisions clearly to executives and delivery teams.
Use your skills to make an impact
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- 8 years of progressive information technology experience directly related to architecture/engineering, information security, or other specialized technology field.
- 5+ years of solution architecture experience with healthcare delivery or payer/provider ecosystems; proven delivery within regulated environments (HIPAA/PHI).
- Hands-on architecture across Azure services and Snowflake/Databricks (data lake/data platform patterns, data sharing, identity & access, vault/secrets management).
- Demonstrated leadership producing reference architectures and governing solution designs across multiple teams.
- Strong competency in APIs/event-driven integration, security models, and NFRs (availability, performance, resilience).
- Generative & Agentic AI, Multi-Cloud is a specialty of a seasoned Solutions Architect. This expert has hands-on experience delivering generative and agentic AI on Google Cloud, Azure, and AWS. They leverage services like Vertex AI, Azure OpenAI, and Amazon Bedrock. Their expertise includes implementing production-grade capabilities, such as RAG, fine-tuning, prompt/knowledge management, and secure data integrations.
Preferred Qualifications — Core Home Health
- Experience with clinical document NLP pipelines and automation/RPA in Home Health workflows (eligibility, authorization).
- Familiarity with Home Healthcare solutions conceptual architecture and operating models and artifacts; ability to evolve them with measurable outcomes.
- Knowledge of enterprise identity/access management flows and Azure group governance within tenants.
- Experience participating in portfolio governance and activation forums (e.g., ARB, TRB, MOR) and translating those decisions into architectural runways.
Preferred Qualifications — Agentic AI Skills
- Agent orchestration: planning, tool/function calling
- Long/short-term memory and context management
- Multi-agent collaboration and role assignment
- Human-in-the-loop review and overrides workflow
- Safety guardrails, policy enforcement, governance
- Telemetry: tracing, evaluation, A/B testing
- Reliability: retries, fallbacks, deterministic handoffs
- Tool ecosystem integration (APIs, MCPs)
Additional Information
Work-At-Home Requirements
- Must have the ability to provide a high-speed DSL or cable modem for a home office. Associates or contractors who live and work from home in the state of California will be provided payment for their internet expense.
- A minimum standard speed for optimal performance of 25×10 (25 Mbps download × 10 Mbps upload) is required.
- Satellite and Wireless Internet service is NOT allowed for this role.
- A dedicated space lacking ongoing interruptions to protect member PHI / HIPAA information.
Scheduled Weekly Hours
Pay Range
The compensation range below reflects a good faith estimate of starting base pay for full time (40 hours per week) employment at the time of posting. The pay range may be higher or lower based on geographic location and individual pay will vary based on demonstrated job related skills, knowledge, experience, education, certifications, etc.$142,300 - $195,700 per year
This job is eligible for a bonus incentive plan. This incentive opportunity is based upon company and/or individual performance.
Description of Benefits
Humana, Inc. and its affiliated subsidiaries (collectively, “Humana”) offers competitive benefits that support whole-person well-being. Associate benefits are designed to encourage personal wellness and smart healthcare decisions for you and your family while also knowing your life extends outside of work. Among our benefits, Humana provides medical, dental and vision benefits, 401(k) retirement savings plan, time off (including paid time off, company and personal holidays, paid parental and caregiver leave), short-term and long-term disability, life insurance and many other opportunities.
About us
About Humana: Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) is a leading U.S. healthcare company. Through our Humana insurance services and our CenterWell healthcare services, we make it easier for the millions of people we serve to achieve their best health – delivering the care and service they need, when they need it. These efforts are leading to a better quality of life for people with Medicare and Medicaid, families, individuals, military service personnel, and communities at large. Learn more about what we offer at Humana.com and at CenterWell.com.
Equal Opportunity Employer
It is the policy of Humana not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status. It is also the policy of Humana to take affirmative action, in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and VEVRAA, to employ and to advance in employment individuals with disability or protected veteran status, and to base all employment decisions only on valid job requirements. This policy shall apply to all employment actions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, upgrading, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, recall, termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation and selection for training, including apprenticeship, at all levels of employment.
Become a part of our caring community
The Lead Solutions Architect works with user groups to solve business problems with available technology including hardware, software, databases, and peripherals. The Lead Solutions Architect works on problems of diverse scope and complexity ranging from moderate to substantial.Job Description Summary
The Lead Solutions Architect provides architecture leadership for CenterWell Home Health programs and platforms, shaping conceptual and reference architectures, governing solution designs, and aligning delivery teams to cloud and data strategies. The scope includes high-priority initiatives as well as interoperability and provider-data integrations that span CenterWell and Humana Insurance.
You will operate within CenterWell IT – Cross-CenterWell Architecture. You will collaborate with product, engineering, EA Activation, security, data, and operations. You will engage governance forums to enable Integrated Health across CenterWell and Humana Insurance.
Key Activities
- Quickly conduct structured knowledge transfer with existing architects and relevant stakeholders to capture critical in-flight designs and decisions.
- Review current initiatives and establish an architectural roadmap aligned with organizational priorities.
- Develop or refine reference architectures and design patterns for core platforms and solutions.
- Collaborate with governance and compliance teams to validate designs against enterprise standards and regulatory requirements.
- Define integration strategies and solution blueprints for key systems and data flows.
- Establish architecture review processes and decision forums to support delivery readiness and quality assurance.
Demonstrated depth in:
- Agent orchestration (tools/function calling, planning, memory, multi-agent collaboration)
- Enterprise guardrails (security, compliance, responsible AI)
- Robust MLOps/LLMOps practices for observability, evaluation, and cost/performance optimization
- Proven ability to integrate AI systems with event-driven microservices, vector databases/feature stores, and CI/CD pipelines, while leading reference architectures and cross-cloud patterns that scale reliably.
- Executive-level communication and stakeholder management across product, engineering, and enterprise functions.
Core Responsibilities
- Architectural Leadership: Own end-to-end solution architecture for Home Health initiatives, translating business outcomes into composable designs across systems of experience, operations, and insight.
- Reference Architectures & Patterns: Author and maintain reference architectures for data platform, clinical documents NLP, RPA/automation, and interoperability patterns; steward pattern reuse across CenterWell when applicable.
- Governance & Compliance: Lead architecture checkpoints and risk reviews; ensure designs conform to enterprise guardrails and privacy/security requirements. Participate in governance forums (e.g., ARB, TRB, MOR).
- Delivery Enablement: Partner with product and engineering to convert conceptual designs into executable architectural runways; de-risk delivery with measurable non-functional requirements (NFRs).
- Data & Integration Strategy: Define integration contracts and domain boundaries for provider data, EMR, and Snowflake/Databricks/Azure data platforms; ensure observability, lineage, and data protection.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with CenterWell leaders, EA Activation, security, and segment CIO teams; communicate decisions clearly to executives and delivery teams.
Use your skills to make an impact
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- 8 years of progressive information technology experience directly related to architecture/engineering, information security, or other specialized technology field.
- 5+ years of solution architecture experience with healthcare delivery or payer/provider ecosystems; proven delivery within regulated environments (HIPAA/PHI).
- Hands-on architecture across Azure services and Snowflake/Databricks (data lake/data platform patterns, data sharing, identity & access, vault/secrets management).
- Demonstrated leadership producing reference architectures and governing solution designs across multiple teams.
- Strong competency in APIs/event-driven integration, security models, and NFRs (availability, performance, resilience).
- Generative & Agentic AI, Multi-Cloud is a specialty of a seasoned Solutions Architect. This expert has hands-on experience delivering generative and agentic AI on Google Cloud, Azure, and AWS. They leverage services like Vertex AI, Azure OpenAI, and Amazon Bedrock. Their expertise includes implementing production-grade capabilities, such as RAG, fine-tuning, prompt/knowledge management, and secure data integrations.
Preferred Qualifications — Core Home Health
- Experience with clinical document NLP pipelines and automation/RPA in Home Health workflows (eligibility, authorization).
- Familiarity with Home Healthcare solutions conceptual architecture and operating models and artifacts; ability to evolve them with measurable outcomes.
- Knowledge of enterprise identity/access management flows and Azure group governance within tenants.
- Experience participating in portfolio governance and activation forums (e.g., ARB, TRB, MOR) and translating those decisions into architectural runways.
Preferred Qualifications — Agentic AI Skills
- Agent orchestration: planning, tool/function calling
- Long/short-term memory and context management
- Multi-agent collaboration and role assignment
- Human-in-the-loop review and overrides workflow
- Safety guardrails, policy enforcement, governance
- Telemetry: tracing, evaluation, A/B testing
- Reliability: retries, fallbacks, deterministic handoffs
- Tool ecosystem integration (APIs, MCPs)
Additional Information
Work-At-Home Requirements
- Must have the ability to provide a high-speed DSL or cable modem for a home office. Associates or contractors who live and work from home in the state of California will be provided payment for their internet expense.
- A minimum standard speed for optimal performance of 25×10 (25 Mbps download × 10 Mbps upload) is required.
- Satellite and Wireless Internet service is NOT allowed for this role.
- A dedicated space lacking ongoing interruptions to protect member PHI / HIPAA information.
Scheduled Weekly Hours
Pay Range
The compensation range below reflects a good faith estimate of starting base pay for full time (40 hours per week) employment at the time of posting. The pay range may be higher or lower based on geographic location and individual pay will vary based on demonstrated job related skills, knowledge, experience, education, certifications, etc.$142,300 - $195,700 per year
This job is eligible for a bonus incentive plan. This incentive opportunity is based upon company and/or individual performance.
Description of Benefits
Humana, Inc. and its affiliated subsidiaries (collectively, “Humana”) offers competitive benefits that support whole-person well-being. Associate benefits are designed to encourage personal wellness and smart healthcare decisions for you and your family while also knowing your life extends outside of work. Among our benefits, Humana provides medical, dental and vision benefits, 401(k) retirement savings plan, time off (including paid time off, company and personal holidays, paid parental and caregiver leave), short-term and long-term disability, life insurance and many other opportunities.
About us
About Humana: Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) is a leading U.S. healthcare company. Through our Humana insurance services and our CenterWell healthcare services, we make it easier for the millions of people we serve to achieve their best health – delivering the care and service they need, when they need it. These efforts are leading to a better quality of life for people with Medicare and Medicaid, families, individuals, military service personnel, and communities at large. Learn more about what we offer at Humana.com and at CenterWell.com.
Equal Opportunity Employer
It is the policy of Humana not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status. It is also the policy of Humana to take affirmative action, in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and VEVRAA, to employ and to advance in employment individuals with disability or protected veteran status, and to base all employment decisions only on valid job requirements. This policy shall apply to all employment actions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, upgrading, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, recall, termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation and selection for training, including apprenticeship, at all levels of employment.
See All 27 Solutions Architect Manager Jobs in District of Columbia
Find roles in District of Columbia that match your experience and apply in just a few clicks.
Find JobsSolutions Architect Manager Jobs by City in District of Columbia
Where District of Columbia roles are concentrated, by current openings.
Solutions Architect Manager Job Market in District of Columbia
A snapshot from current District of Columbia openings, updated as new roles post.
Who's Hiring
- ARDENT3
- NVIDIA2
- Imagineeer2I
- Everforth ECS2E
- Okta1
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software2
- Electronics & Hardware1
- Distribution & Wholesale1
What District of Columbia Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in solutions architect manager jobs across District of Columbia.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a closely related technical field required
- Proven experience managing solutions architects or senior technical individual contributors
- Hands-on expertise with major cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
- Active or clearable federal security clearance, often Secret or TS/SCI, strongly preferred
- Experience designing enterprise architecture solutions for government or large regulated organizations
- Relevant certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect Professional or Azure Solutions Architect Expert preferred
Solutions Architect Manager Jobs in District of Columbia: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a solutions architect manager in District of Columbia?
The most direct path is building several years of hands-on solutions architecture experience, then moving into a team lead or principal architect role before stepping into management. District of Columbia employers, particularly federal contractors, weight technical depth alongside leadership credentials. A bachelor's degree in a technical field is the standard entry point. Certifications from major cloud providers strengthen your candidacy, and obtaining or maintaining a federal security clearance significantly expands the pool of available roles in the DC market.
How much do solutions architect managers make in District of Columbia?
Solutions architect managers in District of Columbia earn a median of about $137,670 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $102,450 for the lowest 10% to over $205,420 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which companies hire solutions architect managers in District of Columbia?
Companies currently hiring solutions architect managers in District of Columbia include ARDENT, NVIDIA, and Imagineeer, per current listings on Migrate Mate as of July 2026. The District of Columbia market is heavily anchored in federal IT contracting, so large systems integrators and defense technology firms consistently represent the majority of open roles.
Which District of Columbia cities have the most solutions architect manager jobs?
The cities with the most solutions architect manager openings in District of Columbia are Washington. Washington DC drives the largest share because of its dense concentration of federal agencies and the headquarters or major offices of the contractors that serve them, while Bethesda and the broader Northern Virginia corridor add substantial volume through defense and intelligence-focused employers.
Are there remote solutions architect manager jobs in District of Columbia?
Yes, though remote availability is more limited than in purely analytical roles. About 87% of solutions architect manager openings tied to District of Columbia are remote or hybrid as of July 2026, reflecting the management and client-facing nature of the work. The most remote-eligible portions of the role tend to involve internal team oversight and architecture review, while roles tied to federal agency contracts often require on-site or cleared-facility presence.
How can I get hired as a solutions architect manager in District of Columbia with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is securing an individual contributor solutions architect role first, ideally with a federal contractor or a cloud-focused consultancy operating in the DC area. Firms like Leidos and Booz Allen Hamilton run associate and early-career technical programs that develop architects over time. Building cloud certifications, contributing to proposal or pre-sales work, and taking on informal mentorship of junior architects are the moves that make the transition into a management title credible to DC-area hiring managers.
Where can I find and apply to solutions architect manager jobs in District of Columbia?
You can find and apply to solutions architect manager jobs in District of Columbia on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings tied to the DC market. Search the roles available, identify the ones that match your background and clearance level, and apply directly to the ones that fit.
See All 27 Solutions Architect Manager Jobs in District of Columbia
Find roles in District of Columbia that match your experience and apply in just a few clicks.
Find Jobs