The work:

The Technical Architecture Lead drives the program’s end to end architecture, aligning solutions to mission needs, establishing standards and documentation, and communicating clearly with clients and leadership. This hands on leader will manage a cross functional engineering team to keep production and COOP environments healthy, oversees DevSecOps practices, code migrations and security patching, and coordinates capacity planning, PI planning, accreditation, audits, and contingency testing—ensuring resilient, compliant operations for an onsite, TS cleared federal program.

Here's what you need:

• Proven experience designing, building, refactoring, and operating large scale IT systems
• 5+ years across the full solution delivery lifecycle and managing engineering teams (≥5 engineers)
• Strong technical documentation and standards management
• Experience with federal Certification & Accreditation (C&A) processes
• Holistic command of technical solutions; decisive problem solving and technology recommendations
• Operational leadership across production/COOP environments: environment readiness, system health, ticketing, code migrations, security patching
• Planning & coordination: capacity planning, PI planning, and release timelines across multiple teams
• DevSecOps enablement and governance
• Succinct, confident communication to clients, leadership, and management
• Oversight competencies to include one or more of the following: cloud cost/resource management; container/orchestration best practices; network architecture & migration governance; security incident response; AI/LLM solution governance; infrastructure compliance & drift; release & change management; team enablement & tooling adoption; Expert level solution architecture; advanced AWS cloud native design
• Active Top Secret clearance and willingness to work onsite in Washington, DC
• AWS Solutions Architecture Associate Certification

Bonus Points if you have:

• Experience operating internet facing websites and content management systems
• Red Hat Linux proficiency; database experience with PostgreSQL and SQL Server
• Intermediate understanding of DevSecOps concepts and CI/CD pipeline architecture
• Agile/SAFe program experience (PI Planning, sprint management) - SAFe/Agile certification preferred