Senior Cloud Architect

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Oversee enterprise architecture, platform integration, product engineering, and application modernization initiatives within a multifaceted federal technology landscape.

• Develop and uphold technical architecture standards, reference frameworks, integration methodologies, and governance protocols.

• Direct solution design across various cloud service providers, SaaS platforms, enterprise productivity tools, low-code platforms, APIs, workflow automation, data integrations, and secure access frameworks.

• Facilitate architectural design assessments and technical decision-making forums.

• Define and manage integration methodologies utilizing APIs, SDKs, webhooks, event streams, serverless functions, workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and automation tools.

• Advocate for infrastructure-as-code, policy-as-code, configuration-as-code, DNS-as-code, and repeatable automation practices.

• Mentor product development, delivery, and sustainment teams through requirements gathering, solution design, backlog refinement, development, testing, deployment, monitoring, and ongoing enhancement.

• Collaborate with cybersecurity teams on Zero Trust principles, access controls, logging, monitoring, encryption, vulnerability remediation, and compliance measures.

• Work alongside data teams to ensure governed access, data quality, analytics, reporting, and AI-driven capabilities.

• Provide technical leadership in platform rationalization, application lifecycle management, performance enhancement, technical debt mitigation, and automation initiatives.

• Assist with release planning, change management, technical documentation, implementation strategies, architecture diagrams, runbooks, and knowledge transfer resources.

• Simplify complex technical challenges into actionable recommendations for client stakeholders, program leadership, product teams, and delivery partners.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree.

• U.S. Citizenship is required due to federal contract stipulations.

• Must possess the ability to obtain and maintain a Federal Public Trust clearance.

• 15+ years of experience in leading enterprise architecture, systems integration, platform engineering, application modernization, or product engineering in complex enterprise settings.

• Must hold one active certification in cloud, enterprise architecture, security, or IT service management, such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Google Professional Cloud Architect, TOGAF, CISSP, Security+, ITIL Foundation, or equivalent.

• 8+ years of experience in designing and governing cloud, SaaS, PaaS, or enterprise platform solutions within multi-team delivery contexts.

• 5+ years of experience working with federal technology programs or regulated enterprise environments that require formal security, compliance, or authorization protocols.

• 5+ years of experience leading technical design efforts for application modernization, platform integration, product development, API integration, workflow automation, or DevSecOps delivery.

• 5+ years of experience with AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.

• 5+ years of experience applying DevSecOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, version control, automated testing, release management, and environment promotion.

• 3+ years of experience implementing or governing infrastructure-as-code, policy-as-code, configuration-as-code, or similar automation strategies.

• 3+ years of experience with enterprise SaaS or collaboration platforms such as Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, SharePoint, Teams, Slack, GitHub, ServiceNow, Salesforce, Adobe, DocuSign, or comparable platforms.

• 3+ years of experience leading architecture reviews, technical governance boards, engineering standards development, or solution design approvals.

• Experience supporting HHS, NIH, FDA, CMS, CDC, or other health-related federal environments.

• Experience in designing SaaS-first or cloud-first enterprise architectures with minimal reliance on custom infrastructure.

• Familiarity with Zero Trust architecture, identity-aware access, conditional access, TIC 3.0, NIST 800-53, CIS benchmarks, FISMA, or FedRAMP-compliant environments.

• Experience with Microsoft Power Platform, including Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Dataverse, ALM, environment strategy, and governance.

• Background in enterprise identity, endpoint management, collaboration platforms, networking, secure access, and platform operations.

• Experience in product management, Agile delivery, backlog governance, release planning, sprint execution, and user-centered product delivery.

• Proven ability to develop architecture diagrams, technical standards, implementation roadmaps, platform governance models, and modernization playbooks.

• Additional certifications in cloud, security, Agile, ITIL, DevSecOps, Microsoft, AWS, Google Cloud, or enterprise architecture are a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equal opportunity employer.

• Reasonable accommodations available for disabled veterans, individuals with disabilities, and those with sincerely held religious beliefs.

• Confidential accommodation support.

• Benefit offerings referenced under the Transparency in (Benefits) Coverage Act.