Senior Computer Systems Engineer/Architect – Informatica

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

📋 Description

• Execute the solution architecture strategy for the implementation of Informatica within NAVSUP AWS GovCloud.

• Design cross-platform architecture utilizing an Everything as Code approach, including security architecture, availability and recovery strategies, CI/CD practices, technical integrations, and daily engineering coordination.

• Act as the senior solution architect responsible for the design, integration, testing, deployment, documentation, and support of the Informatica Data Governance Suite.

• Create engineering standards for high availability, disaster recovery, security, Everything as Code, CI/CD, monitoring, configuration management, and change control.

• Oversee technical activities across Informatica, databases, cloud services, cybersecurity, and testing workstreams.

• Recognize architecture dependencies and risks, ensuring that technical artifacts are secure, reproducible, supportable, and prepared for Government review.

• Assist with RMF/ATO activities, performance and capacity planning, operational readiness, and knowledge transfer to NAVSUP personnel.

• Formulate high-availability architecture recommendations and agile prototypes.

• Establish reliability objectives, RTO/RPO targets, failover strategies, backup and retention methods, restoration procedures, disaster-recovery tests, and rollback plans.

• Design AWS GovCloud resources and controls, including EC2, S3, networking, routing, security groups, load balancers, IAM roles, service accounts, logging, monitoring, and approved encryption standards.

• Set standards for source control, branching, peer review, automated testing, automated deployment, configuration management, and change control.

• Lead security engineering efforts for PKI, SSO, LDAP, OCSP, certificates, RBAC, least privilege, Zero Trust, logging, vulnerability remediation, and integration with NAVSUP security operations.

• Coordinate RMF/ATO and STIG compliance activities, including control mappings, diagrams, system-security documentation, hardening evidence, POA&M inputs, retesting, and closure support.

• Guide decisions related to Informatica platform architecture, data integration, performance testing, interoperability, and operational readiness.

• Review and approve technical designs, scripts, code, configurations, tests, diagrams, runbooks, and deployment packages.

• Implement continuous monitoring for availability, performance, errors, capacity, cost, API metrics, and data-quality indicators.

• Manage technical risk, issue resolution, root-cause analysis, vendor coordination, sprint planning, milestone reviews, Government briefings, and stakeholder decision support.

• Plan and conduct hands-on knowledge transfer sessions for NAVSUP administrators and engineers.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 7 years of hands-on experience with Informatica.

• At least 10 years of senior-level experience in architecting and working with enterprise platforms in AWS or AWS GovCloud from design to production operations.

• Extensive knowledge of cloud computing, storage, networking, security groups, load balancing, identity and access management, encryption, monitoring, performance, capacity, and cost optimization.

• Proven experience in implementing Infrastructure as Code, Configuration as Code, Security or Policy as Code, automated testing, Git-based version control, and CI/CD pipelines.

• Proficient in designing high availability, backup, disaster recovery, RTO/RPO, failover, restoration testing, and rollback for production systems.

• Familiarity with enterprise API, data integration, data governance, metadata, data quality, and relational data warehouse architectures.

• Strong understanding of RMF/ATO, STIGs, NIST 800-53 controls, system hardening, PKI, SSO, RBAC, logging, vulnerability remediation, and Zero Trust concepts.

• Demonstrated capability to lead a small multidisciplinary engineering team and collaborate directly with Government technical, security, contracting, and program stakeholders.

• Ability to critically review technical work, resolve cross-platform issues, manage risk, and maintain clear architecture and operational documentation.

• U.S. citizenship is required.

• Must be able to meet privileged access, background investigation, CAC, SAAR, training, certification, and NDA requirements.

• Current DoD 8140.03 IAT Level II baseline certification required at the beginning of performance: CompTIA Security+ CE or a listed substitute (CCNA, CySA+, GICSP, GSEC, or CND).

• Relevant computing environment certification in AWS, Windows, Oracle, UNIX, or Linux must be obtained within six months.

• Must have CAC eligibility and a final, favorably adjudicated T5, T5R, SSBI, or equivalent investigation before privileged access is granted.

• A Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, cybersecurity, or a related technical field is preferred.

• Preferred experience with AWS GovCloud, DoD or Federal production systems, AWS certifications, Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Ansible, Azure DevOps, MuleSoft, Informatica platforms, observability platforms, Navy data, WDP/Jupiter, Flank Speed, Microsoft Power Platform, logistics systems, or Government API management initiatives.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.

• HSAs and FSAs.

• 401(k) retirement plan with employer contributions.

• Paid time off and holidays.

• Life and disability insurance.

• Employee assistance programs.

• Tuition assistance.

• Opportunities for professional development.

• Military differential pay.

• Additional voluntary benefit programs.