Solutions Engineer

Overview

Solutions Engineer at Maximus, part of the Rapid Deployment Team (RDT). This role focuses on embedding with federal programs, capturing mission-critical workflows through hands-on-keyboard engineering to design, prototype, and deploy real-time solutions—delivered in weeks, not months. Working across growth, operations, legal, contracts and GTM teams.

Responsibilities

• Embed seamlessly with federal programs, capturing mission-critical workflows through hands-on-keyboard engineering to design, prototype, and deploy real-time solutions—delivered in weeks, not months. Working across growth, operations, legal, contracts and GTM teams.
• Transform internal technical innovations into externally consumable solutions, building a repeatable solutions framework to support listings in digital marketplaces, including compliance, pricing, GTM planning, and lifecycle readiness.
• Architect scalable automation with AI and modern tooling, driving CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and real-time observability to increase velocity and delivery consistency at mission scale.
• This role is for senior to principal engineers—technical builders who’ve led end-to-end delivery in production environments and thrive in dynamic, high-stakes, mission-aligned environments. It’s intense and challenging, but you will be supported—operationally, culturally, and strategically.

Culture & Leadership Pillars

• Bias for Action: You move fast, iterate quickly—speed is a choice.
• Accountable: Own outcomes, drive clarity, deliver on commitments.
• Growth Mindset: Learn continuously, adjust and improve based on feedback.
• Customer Obsession: Deeply understand mission needs; solutions begin and end with the customer.

Job Details

• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Engineering and Information Technology
• Industries: Government Administration

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Translate conceptual user requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to Developers and Project Teams.
• Meet with Business Partners, Project Managers, and Vendor Partners to determine project scope and vision, set system goals, identify and resolve system issues, and lead prioritization of build items.
• Communicate changes, enhancements, and modifications to Stakeholders so that issues and solutions are understood.
• Identify and document business and functional requirements determined by Business Partners and Stakeholders.
• Define, elicit, and analyze existing and new system functions and processes.
• Make recommendations to meet the business goals and user needs.
• Frequently responsible for providing guidance, coaching, and training to other employees across the organization within area of expertise.

Job-Specific Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Apply a “solution mindset” to convert R&D and internal capabilities into marketplace-ready offerings.
• Collaborate cross-functionally across growth, BD, engineering, legal, and GTM teams to ensure customer and market viability of solutions.
• Act as a customer-facing engineer to directly support BD and delivery in mission environments.
• Continuously identify bottlenecks and build automated systems that scale our technical operations and speed of delivery.
• Develop, build, test, and maintain a scalable productization framework for use across multiple solution areas.
• Support marketplace solution lifecycle: packaging, compliance documentation, pricing, and updates.
• Serve as an embedded engineer for one or more federal mission programs to collect requirements, build prototypes, and drive delivery in field environments.
• Design and implement automation workflows across CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure provisioning, and monitoring systems.
• Translate field insights into actionable improvements to roadmap, architecture, or product design.
• Contribute to internal culture-building and mentor others on how to transform innovations into solutions with modern business models.

Job-Specific Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of hands-on technical experience including full lifecycle systems development and operations in a production environment.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen.
• Must have an active Secret security clearance.
• Cloud certification within the past 3 years (e.g., AWS, Azure, or Google).
• Demonstrated experience operating as a customer-facing or field-deployed engineer.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex technical topics to non-technical audiences.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret security clearance.
• Advanced expertise in at least one development or scripting language (e.g., Python, Go, Java, C++, Rust, etc).
• Experience designing and delivering microservices-based applications in cloud environments.
• Strong familiarity with cloud-native design patterns, modern DevOps toolchains, infrastructure-as-code and policy-as-code.
• Demonstrated ability to build high-leverage automation that increases engineering velocity or delivery precision.
• Ability to work autonomously in ambiguous, uncertain and dynamic environments while maintaining accountability to outcomes.
• Willingness and ability to support field engagements and travel to mission sites as needed.

Preferred Skills and Qualifications

• Prior experience supporting or operating within DoD programs or highly regulated federal environments.
• Familiarity with FedRAMP, DISA STIGs, and government security frameworks (i.e. RMF).
• Experience launching and maintaining solutions in AWS Marketplace or similar commercial software marketplaces.
• Experience with DevOps toolchains such as Terraform, Jenkins, ArgoCD, GitOps.
• Experience with AI-assisted engineering tools and practices (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code, LangChain, ChatGPT Codex, n8n, etc).
• Experience mentoring engineers or contributing to engineering culture-building within high-performance teams.

EEO Statement

Maximus is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected characteristics.

Pay Transparency

Maximus compensation is based on various factors including but not limited to job location, a candidate's education, training, experience, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value analysis including seniority and merit systems, as well as internal pay alignment. Annual salary is just one component of Maximus's total compensation package. Other rewards may include short- and long-term incentives as well as program-specific awards. Additionally, Maximus provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and paid time off. Compensation ranges may differ based on contract value but will be commensurate with job duties and relevant work experience. An applicant's salary history will not be used in determining compensation. Maximus will comply with regulatory minimum wage rates and exempt salary thresholds in all instances.

Minimum Salary: $165,000.00

Maximum Salary: $225,000.00

Location

Fairfax, VA