Solutions Architect Manager

Overview

Location: Orlando, FL

About Us:

Working across the globe, V2X builds smart solutions designed to integrate physical and digital infrastructure from base to battlefield. We bring 120 years of successful mission support to improve security, streamline logistics, and enhance readiness. Aligned around a shared purpose, our $4.5B company and 16,000 people work alongside our clients, here and abroad, to tackle their most complex challenges with integrity, respect, responsibility, and professionalism.

General Function:

This position manages the design engineering team and owns the quoting tool and quoting process. As a player-coach, the manager leads, mentors, and prioritizes the team's work while actively contributing to designs, drawing development, and peer reviews. The manager oversees the end-to-end submittal drawing process and partners with other departments and functional leaders to ensure seamless, efficient workflows. This role contributes to enterprise configuration management and new product integration efforts, supports technology and market scouting, and provides voice-of-customer feedback to the organization.

Responsibilities

This position description is subject to change at any time as needed to meet the requirements of the program or company.

Specific Duties:

Team leadership and design delivery:

• Lead and coach the design engineering team. Set priorities, allocate resources, balance workloads, and deliver on schedule.
• Serve as a player-coach: create, refine, and troubleshoot designs and drawings alongside the team, including peak-demand and complex projects.
• Review designs, drawings, CAD models, and BOMs for accuracy, consistency, and standards of compliance. Coach through peer reviews and resolve design issues.
• Own accurate, on-time customer, contractor, and architectural submittals. Track turnaround, revisions, and approvals to remove bottlenecks and improve customer satisfaction.

Quoting and configuration management:

• Own and improve the quoting tool and process. Administer the tool and maintain configurationlogic, dependencies, product structures, and rules with functional owners across connected systems.
• Support enterprise configuration management. Keep design work aligned with baselines, change controls, and variant requirements; recommend improvements with functional leaders.

Technology, market, and customer insight:

• Scout technologies, products, components, suppliers, and market trends. Identify customer needsand opportunities to expand configurable offerings.
• Partner with product development, sales, and operations to assess new products, design changes, and technologies for compatibility, interoperability, integration, feasibility, cost, and implementation needs.
• Bring the voice of the customer into product and workflow decisions. Share needs, pain points, and feature requests from quoting, design, submittals, and customer-facing teams with functional leaders.

Cross-functional workflows and improvement:

• Own design workflows, methods, and releases. Align inputs, handoffs, reviews, and deliverables with other departments and functional leaders; remove bottlenecks.
• Standardize templates, documentation, and review checklists to improve quality and shorten cycle times.

Qualifications

Experience:

• 10 years relevant experience in an engineering field.
• Demonstrated experience administering and improving quoting tools and quoting processes, including configurator logic and cross-functional workflows.
• Experience with product configuration management, CPQ/ERP/PLM systems, or solutions architecture relevant to design and quoting activities.
• Proven leadership experience managing or supervising design engineers, drafters, or technical project contributors.
• Direct experience developing, reviewing, and managing submittal drawing packages and approval of workflows.
• Background in technology scouting, new product introduction (NPI), and system-level compatibility evaluation.

Desired Experience:

• High proficiency in CAD/PLM platforms (e.g., SolidWorks, Inventor, AutoCAD, Revit, etc.) and automated product configurators.
• Advanced familiarity with relevant standards/regulations for Electronic Security Systems (e.g., AR 190-11, AFI 31-101, ESE-SIT-0001, ICD 705, UL 2050, ADA, NFPA 70, NFPA 101).
• Demonstrated ability to interpret, develop, and review design drawings, blueprints, project plans, installation details, and device schedules, and to guide team members in resolving design issues.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, Systems Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Architecture/Construction Engineering, or related technical discipline, preferred. (or equivalent practical experience).

Clearance:

• Ability to obtain Secret or Top Secret personnel clearance, if applicable.

At V2X, we are deeply committed to both equal employment opportunity, including protection for Veterans and individuals with disabilities, and fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace. We ensure all individuals are treated with fairness, respect, and dignity, recognizing the strength that comes from a workforce rich in diverse experiences, perspectives, and skills. This commitment, aligned with our core Vision and Values of Integrity, Respect, and Responsibility, allows us to leverage differences, encourage innovation, and expand our success in the global marketplace, ultimately enabling us to best serve our clients.