Senior Solution Architect & Product Manager.
Cb
1 day ago
Full-time
Remote
United States
AgileRank is a dynamic IT services firm specializing in support to federal customers. As industry leaders in Real Time Location Systems (RTLS), we deliver innovative solutions that improve operational efficiency, asset visibility, and decision-making across complex healthcare environments.
We are seeking a senior‑level Solution Architect & Product Manager (8+ years) with deep expertise in Real Time Location Systems (RTLS) to drive both deal solutioning and product ownership for VA‑centric location‑based services. This role sits at the intersection of product strategy, solution architecture, capture and proposal support, and delivery execution.
Position: Senior Solution Architect & Product Manager.
Location: Sterling, VA/Remote
Position Type: Full time
Key Responsibilities
Position Type: Full time
Key Responsibilities
Solution Architecture & Opportunity Support
- Serve as the lead RTLS solution architect for deals, opportunities, and capture activities across VA environments.
- Partner with Business Development and Capture teams to shape opportunities, define solution approaches, and influence win strategies.
- Lead solutioning for RTLS opportunities, including:
- Technical architecture and integration approaches
- Deployment and operational concepts
- Phased rollout and sustainment models.
- Participate in customer discovery sessions to clarify needs and translate them into actionable solution designs.
- Support proposal development by contributing to and/or authoring:
- Technical volumes and product narratives
- Implementation and transition approaches
- Sustainment, operations, and risk mitigation strategies
- Ensure proposed solutions align with VA standards, ATO/RMF constraints, enterprise architecture, and delivery realities.
- Support product demonstrations, technical briefings, and executive‑level discussions with customers and partners.
Product Ownership & Roadmap Leadership
Own the RTLS product roadmap (active RTLS and passive RFID), ensuring alignment with:
Own the RTLS product roadmap (active RTLS and passive RFID), ensuring alignment with:
- Business objectives and growth priorities
- VA enterprise initiatives and operational needs
- Technology evolution and partner capabilities
- Translate strategy into a clear, executable product operating plan, including priorities, milestones, success metrics, and reporting.
- Act as Product Owner within Agile delivery, including:
- Backlog ownership and prioritization
- Feature definition and acceptance criteria
- Trade‑off decisions balancing speed, risk, and value
- Lead requirements definition and prioritization with traceability from stakeholder needs through delivery and sustainment.
- Incorporate delivery feedback, lessons learned, and operational outcomes into continuous product improvement.
- Measure and communicate product health, performance, risks, and roadmap progress to leadership and stakeholders.
Governance, Change Management & Compliance
Support structured governance processes including:
Support structured governance processes including:
- Change Control Boards (CCBs)
- Release coordination
- Technical bulletins and communications
- Ensure RTLS product changes are:
- Documented and traceable
- Aligned with enterprise architecture and security standards
- Introduced in a controlled, operationally safe manner
- Apply awareness of ATO, RMF, and continuous monitoring when making product and architecture decisions.
- Ensure product evolution accounts for:
- Security impact analysis
- Documentation updates
- Operational and sustainment risk
Delivery Support & Technical Leadership
Act as a technical SME and advisor to active delivery efforts, supporting RTLS capabilities including:
Act as a technical SME and advisor to active delivery efforts, supporting RTLS capabilities including:
- Active RTLS and passive RFID
- Asset tracking and location workflows
- Tagging and commissioning processes
- Battery lifecycle management
- Inventory and cycle count operations
- Provide hands‑on guidance as needed to projects to resolve architectural, integration, or operational challenges.
- Partner with delivery leaders to define and standardize repeatable implementation models, artifacts, and best practices across VA sites.
- Serve as a trusted escalation point for complex technical or product‑related delivery issues.
Qualifications Required:
- 8+ years of experience in Product Management, Solution Architecture, or related senior product/technical leadership roles.
- Demonstrated, hands‑on experience designing and implementing RTLS solutions (active RTLS and/or passive RFID).
- Experience working with RTLS OEMs, integrators, or healthcare delivery teams.
- Strong understanding of asset tracking, tagging, inventory management, and sustainment workflows.
- Proven experience supporting capture, proposal, or pre‑sales solutioning efforts.
- Experience operating within Agile or hybrid Agile delivery environments, including backlog and roadmap ownership.
- Working knowledge of change management and governance in regulated or enterprise environments.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including experience producing:
- Product documentation
- Technical proposals
- Executive briefings
- Proven ability to engage effectively with technical, operational, and executive stakeholders.
- Direct experience supporting VA / VHA / VISN / VAMC environments.
- Familiarity with enterprise healthcare IT, HTM, and clinical operations.
- Experience supporting or delivering ATO/RMF‑driven systems.
If you are interested in this position, please send me a copy of your latest resume at sal.farooqui@agilerank.com with the information requested below: Also, please let me know what time/number is best to call to discuss this great opportunity. In case you are not interested in this position or this is not a right fit for you, please feel free to share this opportunity with your friends/networks or anyone you know who may be interested in this position. Thank you!
Please don’t hesitate to contact me for any question (s) you may have. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
This is a remote position.