Job Location: Remote
Travel Requirement: up to 25%
Security Clearance: Must obtain and maintain a Top-Secret Security Clearance
Sherpa 6, Inc. is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) delivering tactical networking, mission software, and autonomy capabilities to the Department of War and the broader defense community. At the center of our portfolio is Watchtower, unified endpoint management built for the tactical edge, managing radios, unmanned systems, and mission equipment alongside conventional endpoints. The rest of the portfolio, ARPO, RAB, TRAKR, HERMES, STACK, and E3, is fielded across demanding operational environments. We solve hard integration problems at the edge and turn emerging technology into deployable capability.
The Principal Solution Architect is a senior technical leadership role in our Solution Architecture function within the CTO organization. Principals own the architecture of Sherpa 6’s most strategic pursuits end to end, framing the problem with capture, shaping the technical solution with domain architects and engineering subject-matter experts, and ensuring solutions transition cleanly to the teams that execute them.
This is a dedicated, strategically funded role, not a resource borrowed against billable delivery. Your time is deliberately protected for the work that is chronically under-resourced when architecture competes with delivery demands: capture solutioning, reference-architecture development, execution handover, roadmap influence, and mentorship. You will help lead and grow the Solution Architecture function.
In your first year, you will architect several of Sherpa 6’s most strategic pursuits, spanning tactical-edge endpoint management, mission software integration, and data-contract-driven interoperability, carrying each from capture framing through reference architecture and Basis of Estimate into execution handover. The work is roughly two-thirds hands-on architecture and estimation and one-third advisory: shaping bid strategy, mentoring domain architects, and influencing the technical roadmap. We measure success not by proposals submitted but by whether the architecture you set lands in delivery, preserved in the WBS, the estimates, and the engineering intent that teams carry from award through execution.
Principals operate across the full solution portfolio rather than owning a single domain. The strongest candidates bring deep expertise in one of the three architecture domains below and working fluency across the other two:
Successful completion of a background screening/check/investigation will/may be required as a condition of hire.
Sherpa 6 will make reasonable accommodations in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act 1990.
Sherpa 6 does not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, sex, religion age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, height, weight, or marital status in employment or the provision of services and is an equal access/opportunity/affirmative action employer.
We offer a competitive benefits package, covering the cost of medical for you and your family; we also offer dental, vision, health and wellness benefits and a generous retirement savings plan. We believe that our employees can manage their workload and their personal life, therefore we extend a generous PTO policy. This allows our employees to balance their lives as they see fit.
As a Veteran Owned Small Business, we know what it means to serve. We have made it our mission to be the leaders in solutions that protect and give our Warfighters the edge they need when put into harms way. The Sherpa 6 team combines years of expertise developing solutions for the dismounted Soldier. We are the answer for all your design, development, and engineering needs.
We love to solve problems and provide the best solutions for our customers. Our approach to a problem is to find a user-focused and design-driven solution that is simple yet functional and effective. We are a group of enthusiastic forward-thinkers who are excited to build amazing solutions with bleeding-edge technology. At Sherpa 6, we offer meaningful and engaging careers, a collaborative culture, and support for your career goals, all while nurturing a healthy work-life balance. We're a full service firm that can take any concept from inception to completion, supporting all phases of a project. Our Services Include Systems Engineering, UX/UI Design, Mobile Development (Android & iOS), Web Development, Backend Services, Sensor Integration, Field Support and Product Sustainment.
