Chief Solutions Architect

Responsibilities

• Provide overall technical leadership and architectural governance for the application maintenance and modernization program.
• Serve as the principal technical authority across all project teams.
• Establish and maintain enterprise architecture standards.
• Guide the modernization strategy from legacy on-premise systems to AWS cloud services.
• Ensure technical decisions align with both immediate operational needs and long-term strategic objectives.
• Collaborate closely with government technical leads.
• Review and approve major architectural decisions.
• Oversight technical risk management.
• Ensure that all solutions comply with federal security requirements and agency enterprise architecture standards.
• Optimize for performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related technical field.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional certification.
• Minimum 8 years' experience in one or more architecture domains (e.g., business architecture, solutions architecture, application architecture).
• Advanced knowledge and experience in one or more current programming languages (e.g., Java, JavaScript (including AngularJS), Python, Rust, Go, or PHP).
• Experience defining the architecture of cloud deployed applications (AWS preferred).
• Expertise in service-oriented architecture, web services, and Application Programming Interfaces.
• Experience defining and driving SecDevOps best practices within large teams, including AI assisted code development.
• Experience establishing legacy modernization and migration technical roadmaps for large scale applications.
• Experience building applications using service-oriented, microservice, and/or API based architectures at an enterprise scale.
• Experience with event-driven applications using queues, service bus and other related patterns.
• Experience in working closely with technical leads, engineering teams and architecture stakeholders for technical issues and architecture framework capabilities for use by other development teams.
• Ability to translate technically complex features into plain language for leadership.
• Experience with AI RAG/LLM implementations and experience implementing and successfully leveraging agentic AI to accelerate software development.

Pay

USD $125,000.00 - USD $199,260.00 /Yr.