Senior Architect

About the role

Latitude IT Solutions is seeking a Senior Architect to own the technical vision and architectural integrity of a large-scale VA health IT platform. You are the highest technical authority on the contract. You design the multi-region failover strategy, own the Architecture Package, chair the Change Control Board, and set the engineering standards that every other Key Personnel role operates within.

What You'll Do

• Own the Architecture Package deliverable: a comprehensive, VA-approved document capturing platform architecture, integration patterns, and multi-region design
• Lead multi-region architecture across AWS GovCloud primary and failover regions; define workload tiers and own the Multi-Region Enablement Plan
• Chair the formal Change Control Board: review all architectural changes, assess technical risk, and approve or reject platform modifications
• Own the data architecture across all platform data services including cross-region replication strategy, consistency models, and replication latency management
• Define technical direction for Istio, EKS cluster architecture, Kubernetes namespace governance, and AWS GovCloud landing zone configuration
• Present architecture briefings to VA health leadership; serve as technical spokesperson in all architecture-level discussions with VA stakeholders
• Mentor the DevSecOps Director and Maintenance Technical Director on platform engineering decisions

What You Bring

• 10+ years of federal cloud architecture experience with demonstrated ownership of large-scale production architecture on AWS GovCloud
• Deep expertise in EKS at enterprise scale, AWS managed services (RDS, MSK, ElastiCache, DocumentDB, S3, Kinesis), and cloud-native platform design
• Expert-level Istio, HashiCorp Vault & Consul, and multi-VPC networking in AWS GovCloud
• Multi-region active/passive failover design with stringent RPO/RTO SLA accountability
• Familiarity with VistA RPC, Oracle Health integration, and VA Enterprise integration patterns (VA Profile, MPI, VADIR, eCMS)
• Strong written communication; ability to author Architecture Packages and present to non-technical VA leadership
• Active Dept of Veteran Affairs PIV credentials

Preferred

• AWS Solutions Architect Professional certification
• AWS Advanced Networking Specialty
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
• HashiCorp certifications
• Prior HAPS / VAEC / VA Health DevSecOps platform experience
• Kafka/MSK scheduling event bus and VistA integration experience

Clearance

Applicants selected will be subject to a Security Investigation and May need to Meet Requirements for Access to Protected and/or Classified Information Citizenship
US Citizen to be considered for the position and have physically resided in the United States for a minimum of 3 years due to background investigation requirements

Employee Benefits

• Medical, Vision, Dental
• Paid Vacation & Sick Time
• Paid Federal Holidays
• 401k Retirement Plan with 100% Company Matching
• Employer Paid Life Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Continued Education Assistance
• Commuter Benefits Program
• Health Savings Account (HSA)