Technical Lead – Technical Architect

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

📋 Description

• Provide technical leadership for one or more application teams, encompassing architectural direction, design guidance, engineering standards, and oversight of delivery.

• Convert intricate technical concepts, tradeoffs, and risks into straightforward language for USPS Executives and Managers.

• Collaborate with USPS Managers, BSAs, and Technical Project Leaders to define solution scope, outline technical approaches, estimate effort, and synchronize delivery plans.

• Work alongside CASI Architects and NIT leaders to ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture, integration patterns, security controls, and platform standards.

• Create and maintain solution designs and technical documentation, such as reference architectures, integration and data-flow diagrams, environment topology, and architecture decision records.

• Conduct and/or facilitate code reviews and technical design assessments.

• Establish and uphold development best practices, including CI/CD expectations, branching strategies, testing strategies, and operational readiness requirements.

• Identify technical risks and systemic challenges, drive root-cause analysis, and implement corrective and preventative measures.

• Assist Environment Management Leads with environment provisioning, configuration, release readiness, and deployment coordination.

• Ensure solutions comply with USPS security and compliance standards.

• Stay informed about technologies, industry trends, and USPS policies and standards.

• Promote the responsible use of AI-assisted development to enhance speed and quality while minimizing rework.

• Set boundaries for secure and compliant AI usage.

• Monitor and report measurable outcomes from modernization and AI enablement initiatives.

• Mentor engineers and advocate for engineering excellence, continuous learning, and accountable delivery.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field from an accredited College/University.

• If a relevant four-year degree is not held, an additional four years of pertinent work experience is mandated.

• 8+ years of proven experience as a Technical Lead, Technical Architect, or senior engineer leading enterprise application design and delivery.

• Proficient in communicating with executive and management audiences, simplifying technical topics, presenting tradeoffs, and suggesting actionable solutions.

• Capable of guiding development teams through architectural decisions, implementation patterns, and quality expectations while remaining hands-on when needed.

• Experience in conducting code reviews and setting engineering standards for readability, testability, security, and maintainability.

• Strong knowledge of modern architectural patterns, including layered architectures, microservices/service-oriented approaches, event-driven patterns, and API-first design.

• Solid understanding of enterprise security and compliance fundamentals, including identity and access management, least privilege, encryption, audit logging, and vulnerability management.

• Experience collaborating cross-functionally with USPS Managers, BSAs, and Technical Project Leaders.

• Familiar with environment management and release readiness practices across development, testing, staging, and production environments.

• Ability to work closely with enterprise architecture and governance stakeholders, including CASI Architects and NIT leadership.

• Strong documentation skills, with the ability to create architecture diagrams, decision records, standards, and executive-ready summaries.

• Working knowledge of AI-assisted development concepts and the capability to establish secure guardrails.

• Continuous learning mindset with the ability to assess and apply new technologies within USPS standards and constraints.

• Must obtain and maintain a Public Trust.

• Must provide onsite fingerprinting at a designated facility.

• U.S. residency is required.

• The selected candidate must have lived in the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for the past five years under the stated travel-duration conditions.

• U.S. Citizenship is not mandatory.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages.

• 401K with company match.

• Competitive pay.

• Paid time off.

• Full flex work weeks where possible.

• Vacation, sick, personal time, and holiday leave.

• Paid parental, military, bereavement, and jury duty leave.

• 15 days of paid leave per calendar year for new employees, prorated based on hire date.

• 10 paid holidays per year, prorated based on hire date.

• Up to 160 hours of paid family leave in a rolling 12-month period for eligible employees.

• Medical plan options, including plans with Health Savings Accounts.

• Dental plan options.

• Vision plan.

• Short- and long-term disability benefits.

• Life insurance.

• Accidental death and dismemberment insurance.

• Personal accident insurance.

• Critical illness insurance.

• Business travel and accident insurance.

• AI-powered career tool identifying career steps and learning opportunities.

• Internal mobility team supporting career goals.

• Identity verification process utilizing advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence.

• Remote work opportunities.