Solution Architect

The purpose of this SOO is to enable the modernization of Department of State's Federal Acquisition (Procurement) and Federal Assistance (Grants) systems through the evaluation and potential implementation of modern, secure, scalable, and integrated enterprise solution.

The Government seeks industry input on commercially available solutions, implementation approaches, and platform architectures that can support the Department’s acquisition and assistance mission requirements while improving operational efficiency, compliance, security, reporting, transparency, auditability, and user experience across domestic and global operations.

The Department seeks to transition from fragmented legacy systems to a unified, interoperable enterprise capability that streamlines lifecycle management, reduces manual processes, improves data consistency, and enhances mission effectiveness. The Department further seeks to ensure that the future-state solution provides robust enterprise electronic filing (e-Filing) and records management capabilities to support creation, retention, retrieval, and audit-ready reconstruction of official acquisition and federal assistance lifecycle records. The legacy e-Filing system capabilities and integrations are expected to be evaluated for modernization, integration, or replacement as part of this effort.

In addition, the Government seeks to evaluate whether a single shared enterprise platform and data architecture, and a modular interoperable ecosystem can effectively support both acquisition and assistance lifecycle functions to reduce duplication, improve consistency, and enable enterprise-wide modernization.

• The Solution Architect shall be responsible for the overall solution architecture, platform strategy, technical design, integration approach, data architecture, and modernization roadmap supporting the acquisition and assistance modernization effort.
• The Solution Architect shall ensure that the proposed solution supports scalability, security, interoperability, maintainability, configurability, and alignment with Federal cybersecurity, privacy, and compliance requirements.
• The Solution Architect shall possess demonstrated experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale Federal business systems involving cloud technologies, API-based integrations, data migration, workflow automation, analytics, and modernization of legacy platforms.