Senior Solutions Architect
About Onebrief
Onebrief is collaboration and AI-powered workflow software designed specifically for military staffs. By transforming this work, Onebrief makes the staff as a whole superhuman - meaning faster, smarter, and more efficient.
We take ownership, seek excellence, and play to win with the seriousness and camaraderie of an Olympic team. Onebrief operates as an all-remote company, though many of our employees work alongside our customers at military commands around the world.
Founded in 2019 by a group of experienced planners, today, Onebrief’s team spans veterans from all forces and global organizations, and technologists from leading-edge software companies. We’ve raised $320m+ from top-tier investors, including Battery Ventures, General Catalyst, Sapphire Ventures, Insight Partners, and Human Capital, and today, Onebrief is valued at $2.15B. With this continued growth, Onebrief is able to make an impact where it matters most.
About the Role
Onebrief is hiring a Senior Solutions Architect to lead and support the deployment of our operational planning platform across secure U.S. military environments. The Senior Solutions Architect is a hands‑on, customer‑facing architect who leads solution design, validates feasibility through prototypes, and guides successful implementations. This role bridges pre‑sales discovery and post‑sales delivery, aligning technical decisions with business outcomes across security‑sensitive and enterprise environments.
About You
Architects are part of our Infrastructure and Security organization and we work across the company to solve hard challenges that unlock new markets and use cases. Successful candidates are much more than just technical experts; they display systems thinking and customer empathy to communicate technical trade-offs clearly and align outcomes. They collaborate in an async‑first way; document their work, decisions, and tradeoffs; and collaborate strongly across sales, product, and engineering orgs. Lastly, they raise the bar for security and operational excellence.
What You'll Do
Own regional, account, or program‑level solution architecture from discovery through delivery, including reference designs, sequence diagrams, and data contracts
Lead technical discovery, requirement shaping, and success criteria definition with customers and partners
Build credible prototypes and integration proofs to de‑risk performance, security, and interoperability
Influence product roadmaps with field feedback, patterns, and reusable components
Create clear architecture artifacts: threat models, deployment topologies, runbooks, and migration plans
Guide customers on scalability, reliability, cost, and operability trade‑offs
Mentor engineers and partner teams through design reviews, pairing, and office hours
Support opportunity cycles with demos, RFx responses, and executive‑level narratives
Champion best practices for cloud, data, networking, security, and compliance
What We Look For
8+ years in specific technology domains such as software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, or data and analytics
5+ years designing and implementing applications and/or infrastructures, or consulting on the same
10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting experience in software or Internet industries
3+ years in technology or software sales contexts supporting pre/post‑sales architecture
Active Top Secret Clearance required; SCI eligibility is a plus.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with enterprise and regulated deployments, including FedRAMP, STIGs, or similar frameworks
Proficiency designing with modern cloud and data stacks such as Kubernetes, containers, CI/CD, observability, Redis, streaming (Kafka/Redpanda), object storage (S3‑compatible), and relational stores (PostgreSQL)
Familiarity with modern web application patterns, real‑time collaboration, maps/geo, and data visualization
Strong integration background across identity (SSO/OIDC/SAML), networking (VPC peering, private link), and API design
Demonstrated ability to create architecture documentation and present to executive and deeply technical audiences
Comfort with hands‑on prototyping using TypeScript/Node/React or similar
Notice to Third Party Recruitment Agencies
Please note that Onebrief does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of an executed Recruitment Services Agreement, there will be no obligation to any referral compensation or recruiter fee. In the event a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without an agreement Onebrief explicitly reserves the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers, shall be deemed the property of Onebrief.