Senior Technical Lead – Solution Architect

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

📋 Description

• Provide senior-level, hands-on technical leadership for a large-scale agile software development and platform modernization initiative supporting a significant Federal contract.

• Transform approved architectures, designs, patterns, and standards into actionable implementation directives.

• Collaborate with the integrated architecture team on solution design and implementation considerations.

• Communicate established solution designs, reference architectures, design patterns, data standards, interface contracts, and engineering guardrails to development and vendor teams.

• Offer daily technical leadership for APIs, data exchanges, shared services, workflow automation, cloud-native solutions, DevSecOps capabilities, and incremental migrations.

• Review detailed designs, code, configurations, interfaces, and technical deliverables for architectural and engineering compliance.

• Establish implementation checkpoints, code and design review practices, technical acceptance criteria, and traceability mechanisms.

• Identify architectural deviations, implementation risks, technical debt, and standards violations; coordinate remediation and escalate exceptions as necessary.

• Coordinate implementation across Scrum teams and vendors to ensure consistency in service boundaries, interfaces, data handling, security controls, reusable components, and shared platform capabilities.

• Resolve intricate implementation issues and cross-team dependencies.

• Mentor technical leads and engineers while promoting approved patterns, tools, and development practices.

• Provide updates on implementation status, risks, compliance concerns, and corrective actions to architects, program leadership, Product Owners, and delivery stakeholders.

⛳️ Requirements

• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Federal or DoD Public Trust; approved adjudication is required prior to onboarding.

• A Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or a related field is required; an advanced degree is preferred.

• At least 10 years of progressive experience in software engineering, solution implementation, systems integration, platform modernization, or cloud-enabled application delivery.

• A minimum of 5 years leading technical implementation for complex enterprise or mission-critical programs.

• Experience in translating enterprise and data architecture designs into technical direction, implementation plans, development standards, and operational software.

• Experience working collaboratively with Enterprise and Data Architects and operating within established decision-making authority.

• Extensive experience with Java, Spring Boot, microservices, APIs, and mission-critical application patterns.

• Knowledge of APIs, messaging, Enterprise Integration Patterns, and event-driven or asynchronous techniques.

• Hands-on experience with AWS technologies, including API Gateway, EventBridge, ECS/EKS, Lambda, SQS/SNS, DynamoDB, and CloudWatch.

• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, DevSecOps, observability, monitoring, logging, disaster recovery, and production support.

• Understanding of domain-driven design, domain models, bounded contexts, service boundaries, software design patterns, and modular architecture.

• Insight into enterprise data architecture, interoperability, migration strategies, master data management, canonical data models, data governance, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server.

• Experience with scalable NoSQL solutions, including DynamoDB, MongoDB, or Cassandra.

• Knowledge of enterprise security architecture, OAuth2, OpenID Connect, SAML, JWT, Zero Trust, identity and access management, threat modeling, and Federal security requirements.

• Ability to apply and enforce API standards, integration patterns, interface specifications, non-functional requirements, and technical standards.

• Experience with implementation-focused design reviews, code reviews, solution assessments, technical quality checks, and architecture compliance reviews.

• Proven experience leading and mentoring technical leads, senior engineers, and developers across Agile teams, vendors, and stakeholder organizations.

• Hands-on experience with AI-powered coding assistants and agents, responsible adoption standards, engineering controls, code review practices, and enhancements in productivity and quality.

• Strong communication skills for relaying technical status, deviations, risks, and corrective actions to architects, Federal customers, business stakeholders, and engineering teams.

• Excellent problem-solving, collaboration, coaching, and conflict resolution skills.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance.

• Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays.

• Parental Leave.

• 401(k) Retirement Plan.

• Group Term Life and Travel Assistance.

• Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance.

• Health Savings Account, Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts.

• Transit and Parking Commuter Benefits.

• Short-Term & Long-Term Disability.

• Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development, Certifications & Learning Opportunities.

• Employee Referral Program.

• Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach.

• Care.com annual membership.

• Employee Assistance Program.

• Supplemental Benefits via Corestream (Critical Care, Hospital Indemnity, Accident Insurance, Legal Assistance, and ID theft protection, etc.).

• Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus.

• Flexible benefits package.