Systems Architect

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Maryland, +1 more state.

📋 Description

• Oversee the technical architecture, modernization, and ongoing enhancement of the Grants.gov platform and associated solutions.

• Work in partnership with federal stakeholders, product teams, engineers, security experts, and operations personnel to create scalable, secure, and highly reliable solutions.

• Offer architectural guidance for system upgrades, cloud-based services, integrations, security compliance, and operational excellence.

• Direct the development and upkeep of enterprise, solution, application, integration, and platform architectures.

• Create scalable, highly available, secure, and resilient application and infrastructure solutions.

• Establish architecture roadmaps, modernization strategies, and technical recommendations.

• Collaborate with development, operations, security, and cloud teams to ensure architectural consistency.

• Assess and suggest emerging technologies and operational enhancements.

• Provide technical oversight for system-to-system integrations, APIs, and application workflows.

• Assist in architecture governance processes and ensure compliance with federal architecture standards.

• Engage in incident investigations, capacity planning, and technology risk evaluations.

• Support cybersecurity and privacy initiatives, including Authority to Operate (ATO) activities.

• Present technical concepts and architectural recommendations to stakeholders.

• Create architectural artifacts, technical management plans, and presentations tailored for executive audiences.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree.

• An additional four (4) years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.

• Eight (8) to ten (10)+ years of experience in designing, developing, and supporting enterprise-scale application architectures.

• Proven experience in architecting cloud-hosted solutions, ideally within AWS environments.

• Familiarity with enterprise application integration, APIs, web services, and service-oriented or microservices architectures.

• Experience in designing highly available, secure, and scalable systems for public-facing applications.

• Knowledge of application lifecycle management, DevSecOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, configuration management, and release management.

• Background in supporting federal IT systems and compliance frameworks.

• Strong understanding of:

• Application architecture and design patterns

• Database architecture and performance optimization

• Security architecture and risk management

• Disaster recovery and business continuity planning

• Performance and capacity management

• Identity and access management

• Experience in developing technical documentation, architecture diagrams, operational procedures, and executive briefings.

• Excellent communication skills with the capability to convey complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Must be able to OBTAIN and MAINTAIN a Federal or DoD "PUBLIC TRUST"; candidates must secure approved adjudication of their PUBLIC TRUST prior to onboarding with Guidehouse. Preference will be given to candidates with an ACTIVE PUBLIC TRUST or SUITABILITY.

🏝️ 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.)