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Technical Solutions Architect

Oran

Job Location:

Herndon, VA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer

Posted: 24 October 2026 (4 hours ago)

Application Deadline: 21 January 2027

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Job Title: Senior Solution Architect
Location: Remote / Occasional Visit
Employment Type: Full-Time
Client: Federal Government
Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced Senior Solution Architect to lead the technical architecture and design of a modular cloud-native open-source platform built for long-term government ownership. The ideal candidate will bring deep expertise in AWS architecture microservices API design cloud security and scalable infrastructure with a strong focus on security interoperability resilience and minimizing vendor lock-in.
This role will drive architecture decisions that support secure mission-critical federal systems while ensuring the platform remains maintainable extensible and transferable to government ownership.
Key Responsibilities

Solution Architecture: Define and lead end-to-end solution architecture for cloud-native platforms hosted on AWS GovCloud including microservices APIs event-driven systems and data architectures.
Cloud Infrastructure: Design scalable resilient and highly available cloud environments using AWS services containers Kubernetes and infrastructure as code (IaC).
Security & Compliance: Implement Zero Trust principles least-privilege access encryption standards identity and access management (IAM) and secure network architectures.
API & Integration Design: Establish standards for RESTful APIs event-driven integrations service interoperability and secure data exchange.
Architecture Governance: Maintain architecture diagrams technical documentation design standards and architecture decision records. Lead technical design reviews and guide engineering teams on implementation.
Technology Evaluation: Assess and approve architectural components frameworks and open-source technologies that support portability interoperability sustainability and reduced vendor dependency.
Performance & Resilience: Design for high availability peak workloads fault tolerance disaster recovery and operational resilience.
Data Architecture: Define relational and in-memory data strategies including data access patterns performance optimization scalability and security.
Transition & Knowledge Transfer: Develop architecture and transition plans that enable long-term government ownership operational independence and smooth contractor transition-out.
Technical Leadership: Collaborate with development DevSecOps infrastructure cybersecurity and government stakeholders to align technical solutions with mission and business requirements.

Required Qualifications

12 years of experience in solution architecture enterprise architecture or a closely related technical leadership role.
Strong hands-on experience designing and implementing cloud-native architectures on AWS; AWS GovCloud experience is highly preferred.
Demonstrated expertise in microservices distributed systems REST APIs and event-driven architecture.
Experience with containerization technologies and Kubernetes-based platforms.
Strong understanding of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Zero Trust security least privilege encryption CDN and Web Application Firewall (WAF) technologies.
Experience designing relational database and in-memory data architectures.
Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automated infrastructure provisioning.
Active AWS Certified Solutions Architect certification.
Strong knowledge of cloud security system resilience scalability availability and architectural best practices.
Excellent technical documentation design review problem-solving and stakeholder communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience supporting U.S. federal government technology programs.
Experience designing implementing or maintaining systems subject to FISMA Moderate security requirements.
Experience with open-source-first architecture and reducing proprietary technology dependencies.
Knowledge of federal cybersecurity requirements cloud governance and secure software development practices.
Experience developing platform transition plans knowledge-transfer documentation and solutions designed for long-term government ownership.
Familiarity with DevSecOps CI/CD pipelines automated security testing and cloud-native operational practices.

Key Success Factors
The successful candidate will demonstrate the ability to:

Design secure modular and scalable architectures for complex federal systems.
Make sound architectural decisions that balance security performance cost and maintainability.
Promote open standards reusable components and minimal vendor lock-in.
Translate mission and business requirements into practical technical solutions.
Enable government teams to independently operate maintain and evolve the platform over time.

Ideal Candidate: A senior-level architect with deep AWS expertise strong cloud security fundamentals proven microservices and API architecture experience and a commitment to building secure scalable open-source-first solutions for federal government ownership.

Required Experience:

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