Senior Solutions Architect

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

📋 Description

• Develop scalable architectural solutions for a modern federal health data platform that encompasses cloud, on-premises, and government-hosted environments.

• Convert mission, business, data, security, and operational requirements into technical designs and implementation strategies.

• Create current-state and target-state architectures for the gradual modernization of legacy data systems.

• Design integration methodologies across defense and federal systems, including APIs, pipelines, shared services, and reusable data products.

• Establish reference architectures, integration patterns, technical standards, and architectural guidelines.

• Assess architectural alternatives based on security, scalability, performance, reliability, maintainability, cost, and delivery risk.

• Direct the use of Databricks and cloud services across AWS, Azure, Oracle Cloud, and hybrid infrastructures.

• Consider data quality, governance, metadata, lineage, access, and lifecycle requirements.

• Facilitate technical discovery and architecture discussions with engineers, technical leaders, customers, and mission stakeholders.

• Generate architecture diagrams, interface definitions, design documentation, decision records, and technical roadmaps.

• Collaborate with Data Engineers and Technical Leads to review designs and address complex technical challenges.

• Identify dependencies, constraints, and risks, and drive them towards resolution.

• Convey architectural decisions, tradeoffs, and recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Advocate for reusable patterns, lessons learned, and technical guidance across teams.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree.

• U.S. Citizenship.

• Active DoW Secret (or higher) clearance.

• Over 8 years of experience in solutions architecture, data architecture, software architecture, platform engineering, data engineering, or a related technical field.

• Experience in designing complex enterprise data platforms or distributed solutions that span multiple systems, applications, data sources, and organizational boundaries.

• Deep understanding of data ingestion, integration, transformation, storage, access, APIs, and data products.

• Experience in designing cloud or hybrid-cloud solutions.

• Proven experience in integrating modern platforms with legacy systems and developing incremental modernization strategies.

• Strong grasp of API design, system integration patterns, and data exchange methodologies.

• Working knowledge in data modeling, metadata, lineage, data quality, and data governance.

• Capability to incorporate security, availability, performance, scalability, reliability, maintainability, and operational support requirements into designs.

• Proficient in evaluating technology options and documenting architecture diagrams, reference architectures, interface designs, technical roadmaps, and technical decisions.

• Experience guiding engineering teams through intricate technical implementations.

• Strong understanding of software engineering practices, development lifecycles, and Git-based workflows.

• Exceptional client-facing communication and facilitation skills.

• Ability to navigate ambiguity, identify cross-cutting technical risks, and drive architectural decisions towards resolution.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible PTO along with all Federal holidays off.

• Health, dental, and vision insurance plans.

• Flexible Spending Account (FSA).

• 401k with employer match.

• Company-sponsored life insurance, short-term, and long-term disability.

• Professional development opportunities (training, certifications, conferences).

• Paid cloud developer accounts.

• Referral bonuses.

• HQ office perks including parking/metro reimbursement, nitro coffee, and lunches.

• Annual social events such as 540 Week, hackathons, charity golf tournaments, etc.

• Access to 540’s Washington Capitals and Nationals tickets.