Engineer / Solutions Architect

GovCIO is currently hiring for an experienced and highly skilled Engineer / Solutions Architect with an active Secret clearance to provide strategic technical leadership in designing, integrating, and optimizing secure IT solutions for government systems. This position will be on-site 5 days a week in Merrifield, VA.

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior team members, serving as a subject matter expert across multiple domains
• Shape and influence the organization's strategic direction through visionary planning and collaboration with stakeholders
• Design, implement, and align solution architectures with Data and Enterprise Architecture standards, ensuring compliance and modernization
• Lead development and documentation of formalized solution methodologies, maintain architecture repositories, and promote best practices
• Conduct research on emerging technologies to recommend cost-effective, flexible solutions that drive innovation across cloud, cybersecurity, DevSecOps, and enterprise platforms
• Collaborate closely with delivery teams, project managers, vendors, and government stakeholders to estimate, plan, and oversee solution implementation and integration
• Model business and system processes to provide technical artifacts such as system diagrams, detailed design documents, workflow diagrams, and project plans
• Provide ongoing technical guidance during solution implementation within Agile cross-functional teams, managing risks and communicating with senior leadership
• Review and advise on architectural designs from other architects to ensure adherence to
• Drive modernization of legacy systems and align technology initiatives with mission objectives, fostering collaboration across development, product owners, and government teams

Bachelor’s Degree with 12+ yrs experience with large integrated projects

Required Skills and Experience

• Extensive experience in developing strategic systems architecture
• Experience in system design and development
• Experience in system and network design and development
• Ability to produce requirement artifacts: data flow diagrams, UML modeling techniques include sequence, component, deployment and domain models
• A background in software development with ability to code at some level and knowledge of APIs and SDKs
• A technical architecture background with an understanding of high-level networks, routers, switches, firewalls, servers, and operating systems
• Strong experience with, web servers, API gateways, cross-domain solutions, service-oriented architectures, web services (REST), microservice patterns, service buses and integration patterns, security practices used in federal spaces
• Proven experience with databases and data storage including NoSQL and SQL database
• Familiarity with cross-domain solution architectures, data labeling, and secure data transfer protocols.
• Experience working in secure environments, preferably within the DOJ, and understanding of FISMA, NIST, or RMF compliance.
• This individual will understand the vision and communicate technology solutions along with roadmaps to achieve modernization results
• Familiarity with REST, Java, and ColdFusion
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies and leading cross-functional teams.

Clearance Required: Active Secret clearance with ability to obtain and hold DEA suitability

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