{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"ff29e2292b3a3e60c64735be","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/ff29e2292b3a3e60c64735be","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/ff29e2292b3a3e60c64735be","title":"Director, Solution Enablement","description":"Maximus is currently seeking a Director, Solutions Enablement. The Director, Solution Enablement leads early-stage discovery, Business Architecture, and readiness across Engineering Services and Delivery. This role ensures initiatives are well-defined, accurately scoped, and collaboratively estimated by partnering with Architecture, Engineering, Quality Engineering, PMO, and Business Operations. The Director creates a strong foundation for predictable delivery outcomes by aligning business strategy, cost, and timelines before execution begins.\nThis role establishes a strong foundation for accurate scope, cost, and delivery timelines through close collaboration with Solution Architecture, Software Engineering, Quality Engineering, PMO, and Business Operations teams. Because of contract obligations, this position requires candidates to be a U.S. Citizen or Green Crad holder.\nThis is a remote position.\nEssential Duties and Responsibilities:\nAct as the entry point for new ESD initiatives, partnering with key stakeholders to clarify objectives, assess feasibility, and identify dependencies. Ensure all initiatives are properly shaped before moving into design and delivery.\n\nDevelop business architecture artifacts-capabilities, value streams, and process views-to ensure alignment with enterprise strategy and solution architecture. Use these artifacts to define scope, identify reuse opportunities, and support roadmap decisions.\n\nLead creation of clear, outcome focused business requirements and enablement materials such as problem statements, solution options, and process flows. Ensure deliverables are consumable, traceable, and appropriately detailed for initiative complexity.\n\nCollaborate across architecture, engineering, QA, and operations to produce early cost and timeline estimates that inform investment and sequencing. Ensure estimates are assumption based, refined iteratively, and transparently communicated.\n\nPartner with PMO and Business Operations to align initiative scope, cost, and timelines with program and portfolio roadmaps. Ensure consistency between business architecture, approved scope, delivery commitments, and dependency impacts.\n\nOwn the Solution Enablement phase, ensuring initiatives meet Definition of Ready criteria before entering delivery. Prevent unready work from progressing by confirming scope clarity, aligned estimates, and identified risks.\n\nProvide high quality handoffs that include business context, architectural alignment, success measures, and confirmed assumptions. Enable early collaboration while transitioning ownership smoothly to delivery teams.\n\nDefine and maintain standards, templates, and playbooks for Solution Enablement and Business Architecture. Ensure consistent practices across ESD and promote reuse to improve speed and quality.\n\nServe as a trusted advisor by clearly communicating risks, trade offs, and readiness. Support executive decisions with fact based, transparent enablement outputs.\n\nLead and develop the Solution Enablement team, strengthening capabilities in business architecture, analysis, estimation, and scope definition. Foster an outcome driven mindset that avoids solution bias.\n\nJob-Specific Essential Duties and Responsibilities:\nPrimary Focus Areas:\nSolution intake, discovery, and enablement.\n\nBusiness Architecture and capability mapping.\n\nBusiness requirements and scope definition.\n\nCost and delivery timeline estimation (collaborative).\n\nProgram level alignment with PMO and Business Operations.\n\nCore Responsibilities:\nPortfolio Intake & Solution Discovery:\nServe as the front door for new initiatives entering Engineering Services and Delivery.\n\nPartner with Business, Product, Solution Architecture and Enterprise PMO to:\n\nClarify business objectives, outcomes, and success metrics.\n\nAssess feasibility, dependencies, and cross portfolio impacts.\n\nEnsure initiatives are appropriately shaped before proceeding to design and delivery.\n\nBusiness Architecture Development:\nOwn development of Business Architecture artifacts, including:\n\nBusiness capability maps.\n\nValue streams and business processes.\n\nCurrent state and target state views.\n\nEnsure solution initiatives are aligned to enterprise capabilities and strategic priorities.\n\nCollaborate closely with Solution Architecture to align business, application, data, and technology perspectives.\n\nUse Business Architecture to:\n\nDefine scope boundaries.\n\nIdentify reuse and consolidation opportunities.\n\nSupport roadmap planning decisions.\n\nBusiness Requirements & Enablement Artifacts:\nLead creation of business level enablement artifacts, including:\n\nProblem statements and value hypotheses.\n\nHigh level solution scope and options.\n\nProcess flows and feature decomposition.\n\nKey assumptions, risks, and constraints.\n\nEnsure requirements are:\n\nOutcome focused and traceable.\n\nClear and consumable by Systems Analysis & Engineering teams.\n\nRight size for initiative complexity.\n\nCost & Delivery Timeline Estimation (Collaborative):\nCollaborate with:\n\nSolution Architecture.\n\nSoftware Engineering.\n\nQuality Engineering.\n\nProduction Operations.\n\nFacilitate early estimation activities to:\n\nDefine high level effort and delivery timelines.\n\nAssess delivery complexity, risks, and dependencies.\n\nInform investment and sequencing decisions.\n\nEnsure cost and timeline estimates are:\n\nBased on agreed assumptions and scope.\n\nIteratively refined through progressive elaboration.\n\nTransparently communicated to stakeholders\n\nProgram Scope, Cost & Timeline Alignment:\nPartner with Enterprise PMO and Business Operations to:\n\nAlign initiative level scope to program and portfolio roadmaps.\n\nValidate overall program cost and delivery timelines.\n\nSupport prioritization and funding decisions.\n\nEnsure consistency between:\n\nBusiness architecture and program roadmaps.\n\nApproved scope and delivery commitments.\n\nChange impacts and downstream dependencies.\n\nProgressive Elaboration & Readiness:\nOwn the Solution Enablement phase of progressive elaboration.\n\nDefine and enforce Definition of Ready criteria before handoff to Systems Analysis & Design.\n\nPrevent initiatives from entering delivery without:\n\nClear scope boundaries.\n\nAligned cost and timeline estimates.\n\nIdentified architectural and delivery risks.\n\nHandoff to Systems Analysis & Delivery:\nEnsure high quality handoffs to Systems Analysis & Design teams by providing:\n\nBusiness context and architectural alignment.\n\nConfirmed scope, cost, and timeline assumptions.\n\nClear success measures and constraints.\n\nFacilitate early collaboration while transitioning ownership appropriately once delivery begins.\n\nStandards & Consistency:\nEstablish and maintain Solution Enablement and Business Architecture standards, templates, and playbooks aligned with OCDIO guidance.\n\nDrive consistent enablement practices across ESD engagements.\n\nMaintain reusable patterns and templates to improve speed and quality.\n\nStakeholder & Executive Engagement:\nAct as a trusted partner to business and operational leadership.\n\nCommunicate trade-offs, risks, and readiness transparently.\n\nSupport executive decision making with clear, fact-based enablement outputs.\n\nTeam Leadership & Development:\nLead and develop the Solution Enablement team.\n\nBuild core capabilities in:\n\nBusiness Architecture.\n\nBusiness analysis and discovery.\n\nEstimation and scope definition.\n\nPromote outcome driven thinking over solution bias.\n\nMinimum Requirements\n'- Bachelor's degree in relevant field of study.?\n10+ years of relevant professional experience required.?\nJob-Specific Minimum Requirements:\nBachelor's degree in relevant field of study. Additional years of relevant experience will be considered in lieu of degree.\nCore Capabilities:\nStrong expertise in Business Architecture (capability models, value streams, BPMN process modeling).\n\nDeep experience in solution discovery and requirements enablement.\n\nSolid understanding of enterprise SDLC and estimation practices.\n\nCollaboration & Influence:\nProven ability to partner effectively with:\n\nSolution Architects.\n\nEngineering and Quality Engineering teams.\n\nEnterprise PMO and Business Operations.\n\nStrong facilitation, negotiation, and communication skills.\n\nStrategic & Analytical Thinking:\nAbility to translate strategy into executable initiatives.\n\nComfortable navigating ambiguity, trade-offs, and competing priorities.\n\nSuccess Measures:\nImproved accuracy of early scope, cost, and timeline estimates.\n\nReduction in downstream scope changes and estimation rework.\n\nIncreased alignment between business roadmaps and delivery plans.\n\nStrong stakeholder confidence in initiative readiness.\n\nHigh adoption of Solution Enablement and Business Architecture standards.\n\n#techjobs #veteranspage #LI-Remote #HotJobs0623LI #HotJobs0623FB #HotJobs0623X #HotJobs0623TH #TrendingJobs\nMaximus 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.\nMinimum Salary\n$156,640\nMaximum Salary\n$225,000","company":"Maximus","rawCompany":"maximus","city":"Pierre","state":"SD","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-06-28T04:25:24.024Z","occupations":[{"code":"11-9041.00","title":"Architectural and Engineering Managers","slug":"architectural-and-engineering-managers"},{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"17-2199.00","title":"Engineers, All Other","slug":"engineers-all-other"}],"industries":[{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"},{"code":"541330","title":"Engineering Services","slug":"engineering-services"},{"code":"541690","title":"Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services","slug":"other-scientific-and-technical-consulting-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Director, Solution Enablement","description":"Maximus is currently seeking a Director, Solutions Enablement. The Director, Solution Enablement leads early-stage discovery, Business Architecture, and readiness across Engineering Services and Delivery. This role ensures initiatives are well-defined, accurately scoped, and collaboratively estimated by partnering with Architecture, Engineering, Quality Engineering, PMO, and Business Operations. The Director creates a strong foundation for predictable delivery outcomes by aligning business strategy, cost, and timelines before execution begins.\nThis role establishes a strong foundation for accurate scope, cost, and delivery timelines through close collaboration with Solution Architecture, Software Engineering, Quality Engineering, PMO, and Business Operations teams. Because of contract obligations, this position requires candidates to be a U.S. Citizen or Green Crad holder.\nThis is a remote position.\nEssential Duties and Responsibilities:\nAct as the entry point for new ESD initiatives, partnering with key stakeholders to clarify objectives, assess feasibility, and identify dependencies. Ensure all initiatives are properly shaped before moving into design and delivery.\n\nDevelop business architecture artifacts-capabilities, value streams, and process views-to ensure alignment with enterprise strategy and solution architecture. Use these artifacts to define scope, identify reuse opportunities, and support roadmap decisions.\n\nLead creation of clear, outcome focused business requirements and enablement materials such as problem statements, solution options, and process flows. Ensure deliverables are consumable, traceable, and appropriately detailed for initiative complexity.\n\nCollaborate across architecture, engineering, QA, and operations to produce early cost and timeline estimates that inform investment and sequencing. Ensure estimates are assumption based, refined iteratively, and transparently communicated.\n\nPartner with PMO and Business Operations to align initiative scope, cost, and timelines with program and portfolio roadmaps. Ensure consistency between business architecture, approved scope, delivery commitments, and dependency impacts.\n\nOwn the Solution Enablement phase, ensuring initiatives meet Definition of Ready criteria before entering delivery. Prevent unready work from progressing by confirming scope clarity, aligned estimates, and identified risks.\n\nProvide high quality handoffs that include business context, architectural alignment, success measures, and confirmed assumptions. Enable early collaboration while transitioning ownership smoothly to delivery teams.\n\nDefine and maintain standards, templates, and playbooks for Solution Enablement and Business Architecture. Ensure consistent practices across ESD and promote reuse to improve speed and quality.\n\nServe as a trusted advisor by clearly communicating risks, trade offs, and readiness. Support executive decisions with fact based, transparent enablement outputs.\n\nLead and develop the Solution Enablement team, strengthening capabilities in business architecture, analysis, estimation, and scope definition. Foster an outcome driven mindset that avoids solution bias.\n\nJob-Specific Essential Duties and Responsibilities:\nPrimary Focus Areas:\nSolution intake, discovery, and enablement.\n\nBusiness Architecture and capability mapping.\n\nBusiness requirements and scope definition.\n\nCost and delivery timeline estimation (collaborative).\n\nProgram level alignment with PMO and Business Operations.\n\nCore Responsibilities:\nPortfolio Intake & Solution Discovery:\nServe as the front door for new initiatives entering Engineering Services and Delivery.\n\nPartner with Business, Product, Solution Architecture and Enterprise PMO to:\n\nClarify business objectives, outcomes, and success metrics.\n\nAssess feasibility, dependencies, and cross portfolio impacts.\n\nEnsure initiatives are appropriately shaped before proceeding to design and delivery.\n\nBusiness Architecture Development:\nOwn development of Business Architecture artifacts, including:\n\nBusiness capability maps.\n\nValue streams and business processes.\n\nCurrent state and target state views.\n\nEnsure solution initiatives are aligned to enterprise capabilities and strategic priorities.\n\nCollaborate closely with Solution Architecture to align business, application, data, and technology perspectives.\n\nUse Business Architecture to:\n\nDefine scope boundaries.\n\nIdentify reuse and consolidation opportunities.\n\nSupport roadmap planning decisions.\n\nBusiness Requirements & Enablement Artifacts:\nLead creation of business level enablement artifacts, including:\n\nProblem statements and value hypotheses.\n\nHigh level solution scope and options.\n\nProcess flows and feature decomposition.\n\nKey assumptions, risks, and constraints.\n\nEnsure requirements are:\n\nOutcome focused and traceable.\n\nClear and consumable by Systems Analysis & Engineering teams.\n\nRight size for initiative complexity.\n\nCost & Delivery Timeline Estimation (Collaborative):\nCollaborate with:\n\nSolution Architecture.\n\nSoftware Engineering.\n\nQuality Engineering.\n\nProduction Operations.\n\nFacilitate early estimation activities to:\n\nDefine high level effort and delivery timelines.\n\nAssess delivery complexity, risks, and dependencies.\n\nInform investment and sequencing decisions.\n\nEnsure cost and timeline estimates are:\n\nBased on agreed assumptions and scope.\n\nIteratively refined through progressive elaboration.\n\nTransparently communicated to stakeholders\n\nProgram Scope, Cost & Timeline Alignment:\nPartner with Enterprise PMO and Business Operations to:\n\nAlign initiative level scope to program and portfolio roadmaps.\n\nValidate overall program cost and delivery timelines.\n\nSupport prioritization and funding decisions.\n\nEnsure consistency between:\n\nBusiness architecture and program roadmaps.\n\nApproved scope and delivery commitments.\n\nChange impacts and downstream dependencies.\n\nProgressive Elaboration & Readiness:\nOwn the Solution Enablement phase of progressive elaboration.\n\nDefine and enforce Definition of Ready criteria before handoff to Systems Analysis & Design.\n\nPrevent initiatives from entering delivery without:\n\nClear scope boundaries.\n\nAligned cost and timeline estimates.\n\nIdentified architectural and delivery risks.\n\nHandoff to Systems Analysis & Delivery:\nEnsure high quality handoffs to Systems Analysis & Design teams by providing:\n\nBusiness context and architectural alignment.\n\nConfirmed scope, cost, and timeline assumptions.\n\nClear success measures and constraints.\n\nFacilitate early collaboration while transitioning ownership appropriately once delivery begins.\n\nStandards & Consistency:\nEstablish and maintain Solution Enablement and Business Architecture standards, templates, and playbooks aligned with OCDIO guidance.\n\nDrive consistent enablement practices across ESD engagements.\n\nMaintain reusable patterns and templates to improve speed and quality.\n\nStakeholder & Executive Engagement:\nAct as a trusted partner to business and operational leadership.\n\nCommunicate trade-offs, risks, and readiness transparently.\n\nSupport executive decision making with clear, fact-based enablement outputs.\n\nTeam Leadership & Development:\nLead and develop the Solution Enablement team.\n\nBuild core capabilities in:\n\nBusiness Architecture.\n\nBusiness analysis and discovery.\n\nEstimation and scope definition.\n\nPromote outcome driven thinking over solution bias.\n\nMinimum Requirements\n'- Bachelor's degree in relevant field of study.?\n10+ years of relevant professional experience required.?\nJob-Specific Minimum Requirements:\nBachelor's degree in relevant field of study. Additional years of relevant experience will be considered in lieu of degree.\nCore Capabilities:\nStrong expertise in Business Architecture (capability models, value streams, BPMN process modeling).\n\nDeep experience in solution discovery and requirements enablement.\n\nSolid understanding of enterprise SDLC and estimation practices.\n\nCollaboration & Influence:\nProven ability to partner effectively with:\n\nSolution Architects.\n\nEngineering and Quality Engineering teams.\n\nEnterprise PMO and Business Operations.\n\nStrong facilitation, negotiation, and communication skills.\n\nStrategic & Analytical Thinking:\nAbility to translate strategy into executable initiatives.\n\nComfortable navigating ambiguity, trade-offs, and competing priorities.\n\nSuccess Measures:\nImproved accuracy of early scope, cost, and timeline estimates.\n\nReduction in downstream scope changes and estimation rework.\n\nIncreased alignment between business roadmaps and delivery plans.\n\nStrong stakeholder confidence in initiative readiness.\n\nHigh adoption of Solution Enablement and Business Architecture standards.\n\n#techjobs #veteranspage #LI-Remote #HotJobs0623LI #HotJobs0623FB #HotJobs0623X #HotJobs0623TH #TrendingJobs\nMaximus 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.\nMinimum Salary\n$156,640\nMaximum Salary\n$225,000","datePosted":"2026-06-28T04:25:24.024Z","dateModified":"2026-06-28T04:25:24.024Z","hiringOrganization":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Maximus","sameAs":"https://jobsearcher.com"},"jobLocation":{"@type":"Place","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","addressLocality":"Pierre","addressRegion":"SD","addressCountry":"US"}},"identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","name":"JobSearcher","value":"ff29e2292b3a3e60c64735be"},"url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/ff29e2292b3a3e60c64735be"}}