Solutions Architect

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

📋 Description

• Assist in designing scalable solutions for a contemporary federal health data platform that encompasses cloud, on-premises, and government-hosted settings.

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

• Contribute to the current-state and target-state architectures aimed at the incremental modernization of legacy federal health systems.

• Create and document data integration strategies utilizing APIs, pipelines, shared services, and reusable data products.

• Implement reference architectures, integration patterns, technical standards, and architectural guardrails.

• Assess technical options, dependencies, and risks related to security, scalability, performance, reliability, maintainability, cost, and delivery.

• Provide support for Databricks and cloud services across AWS, Azure, Oracle Cloud, and hybrid infrastructures.

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

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

• Collaborate with Data Engineers and Technical Leads to address technical challenges and ensure implementations align with platform architecture.

• Articulate technical decisions, trade-offs, and recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Serve as a trusted technical partner for 540 by fostering relationships and sharing reusable practices.

⛳️ Requirements

• 3-10+ years of experience in solutions architecture, data architecture, software engineering, platform engineering, data engineering, or a related technical domain.

• Experience with enterprise data platforms, distributed systems, data ingestion, transformation, storage, APIs, or data products.

• Background in working within cloud or hybrid-cloud environments.

• Experience in integrating data or applications across both modern and legacy systems using APIs or other data exchange methods.

• Proficient knowledge of data modeling, metadata, lineage, data quality, or data governance concepts.

• Capability to consider security, availability, performance, scalability, reliability, and operational support needs in technical designs.

• Experience in creating architecture diagrams, interface designs, technical documentation, decision records, or implementation roadmaps.

• Background in collaborating with engineers and technical leaders to execute complex solution designs.

• Familiarity with modern software engineering practices, development lifecycles, and Git-based workflows.

• Excellent communication skills for interacting with both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Ability to navigate uncertainty, investigate technical challenges, pose effective questions, and drive assigned work towards resolution.

• U.S. Citizenship required.

• Active DoW Secret or higher clearance is mandatory.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible PTO plus all Federal holidays off.

• Health, dental, and vision insurance plans available.

• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) offered.

• 401k plan with employer match.

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

• Opportunities for professional development, including training, certifications, and conferences.

• Paid cloud developer accounts provided.

• Referral bonuses available.

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

• Annual social events including 540 Week, hackathons, charity golf tournaments, and more.

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