Senior IT Architect​/Team Lead Security Clearance

Overview Blue Water Federal is looking for a Senior IT Architect / Team Lead to support the DOE EHSS Application, Infrastructure, and Cybersecurity Support (AICS) program AICS enables secure, reliable, and data-driven operations across the DOE enterprise through application modernization, Dev Sec Ops , Zero Trust implementation, continuous monitoring, and infrastructure sustainment supporting EHSS's environment, health, safety, security, and classification missions.

This is a hybrid role with potential support of multiple DOE sites in the DC metro area.

• Create high-level architectural specifications and resolve integration, interoperability, platform, security, and compatibility issues.
• Gather and elaborate requirements, acceptance criteria, dependencies, assumptions, alternatives, risks, technical approaches, labor estimates, and schedules.
• Lead feasibility analyses and present architectural options for software, hardware, cloud, data, APIs, and processes.
• Establish schedules, assign technical responsibilities, monitor progress, and coordinate prototype, UAT, and production releases.
• Lead source control, automated testing, CI/CD, QA, and change, release, and configuration management.
• Ensure solutions conform to DOE/EHSS enterprise architecture, Section 508, Zero Trust, identity/access, cybersecurity, and secure-development requirements.

• Bachelor's degree in information technology or similar field. 6+ years of experience can be substituted for the bachelor's degree (included as part of the experience requirement, not additional).
• 7 + years designing and developing new software or major software revisions.
• Top-level technical expertise creating architectures and addressing systems-integration compatibility.
• Experience with requirements, cost reporting, alternatives analysis, schedules, responsibility assignment, and progress monitoring.
• Experience coordinating QA-compliant development and production releases, source control, automated testing, CI, and configuration management.
• TOGAF, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, or Azure Solutions Architect Expert preferred.
• Must have an active Top Secret clearance with the ability to obtain a Q clearance.
• Blue Water Federal is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law.
• Blue Water Federal is a VEVRAA federal contractor and we request priority referral of veterans.
• We offer a competitive health and wellness benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Our competitive compensation package includes generous 401k matching, employee stock purchase program, and life insurance options, and time off with pay.
• Salary range: 180-210K