Solution Architect (DoW)
Appian Corporation · McLean, VA
$150,000–$275,000
Jul 15, 2026
McLean, VA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior technical advisory role focused on designing and architecting Appian-based solutions for Department of War federal customers. Day-to-day work spans solution architecture, pre-sales solutioning, and hands-on guidance across cloud hosting, DevSecOps, process automation, case management, and data integration. Best suited to someone with deep federal IT experience, familiarity with DoW enterprise systems, and an active or obtainable TS/SCI clearance.
Senior level · 10+ years · Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV · Bachelor's required · TS/SCI clearance · Full-time
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What the occupation pays Median $129,834 (middle half $101,882–$164,857).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (12)
The role is titled 'Solution Architect' with no seniority modifier, but the requirements (10+ years of multi-tier application design, 5+ years advising federal customers, enterprise-level leadership) firmly support a Senior-level classification.
Location is inferred as the Washington DC metro area based on the Department of War (DoW) / DoD federal customer focus and references to SCIF access and DoD enterprise systems; no explicit city is stated in the posting.
Clearance: the JD states 'possession of or ability to obtain a US government public trust and/or DoD clearance' as a baseline gate, with 'TS/SCI with CI Poly strongly preferred.' The hard gate is the ability to obtain a clearance; TS/SCI is preferred but not a hard requirement. Clearance is set to TopSecretSci to reflect the strong preference and the nature of the work (SCIF access, DoD classified environments).
Appian platform experience is not explicitly listed under a 'Required' heading but is the central, pervasive technical requirement throughout the entire posting — the role is specifically a Solution Architect for Appian's Customer Success team — and is treated as a hard gate accordingly.
Certified Scrum Master (or other agile certification) is explicitly stated as 'required' in the Education and Certifications section.
Federal proposal and whitepaper authoring is explicitly called out as 'required' in the Basic Qualifications section.
RMF/ATO experience is listed in Basic Qualifications but qualified as 'preferred,' so it is marked preferred.
DevSecOps pipeline and infrastructure automation tools (Jenkins, Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack, Cucumber, JMeter, Fitnesse) are explicitly marked 'preferred' in the Basic Qualifications section.
Cloud certifications (AWS, GCP, Azure) and PMP are listed under Education and Certifications as 'a plus' and 'preferred' respectively.
The SOC code 15-1211 (Computer Systems Analysts) is chosen because the primary day-to-day work is advising federal customers on solution architecture, integration design, and enterprise IT strategy — closer to systems analysis and advisory than hands-on software development. 15-1299 is noted as a runner-up given the hybrid pre-sales/architect framing.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): cloud architecture.
Requires a TS/SCI clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
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