Systems Architect

Job Family :

Systems Engineering

Travel Required :

Up to 10%

Clearance Required :

Ability to Obtain Public Trust

As a System Architect, you will lead the technical architecture, modernization, and continuous improvement of the Grants.gov platform and related solutions supporting federal grant-making operations. You will collaborate with federal stakeholders, product teams, engineers, security specialists, and operations personnel to design scalable, secure, and highly available solutions that support mission-critical services for millions of users across the federal grants ecosystem. You will provide architectural leadership for system enhancements, platform modernization, cloud-based services, integrations, security compliance, and operational excellence while supporting the consolidation objectives between Grants.gov

and Grant Solutions.

• Lead the development and maintenance of enterprise, solution, application, integration, and platform architectures supporting Grants.gov and related services.
• Design scalable, highly available, secure, and resilient application and infrastructure solutions that support continuous operations and disaster recovery requirements.
• Define architecture roadmaps, modernization strategies, and technical recommendations that improve system performance, availability, maintainability, and cost efficiency.
• Collaborate with development, operations, security, and cloud teams to ensure architectural alignment across platforms, applications, databases, integrations, and hosting environments.
• Evaluate and recommend emerging technologies, automation capabilities, cloud services, AI‑enabled solutions, and operational improvements.
• Provide technical oversight for system-to-system integrations, APIs, data exchanges, forms processing, and application workflows.
• Support architecture governance processes, solution reviews, technical documentation, and compliance with federal architecture standards and HHS Enterprise Performance Life Cycle (EPLC) requirements.
• Participate in incident investigations, root cause analyses, capacity planning, performance optimization, and technology risk assessments.
• Support cybersecurity and privacy initiatives, including Authority to Operate (ATO) activities, security documentation, POA&M management, incident response, and compliance requirements.
• Present technical concepts, architecture recommendations, alternatives, and modernization plans to executive, business, and technical stakeholders.
• Develop architecture artifacts, technical management plans, system documentation, and executive‑ready presentations that support operational and strategic decision‑making.

What You Will Need:

• Bachelor's degree; additional four years of experience in lieu of degree.
• Eight to ten years of experience designing, developing, and supporting enterprise‑scale application architectures.
• Experience architecting cloud‑hosted solutions, preferably within AWS environments.
• Experience with enterprise application integration, APIs, web services, and service‑oriented or microservices architectures.
• Experience designing highly available, secure, and scalable systems supporting public‑facing applications.
• Knowledge of application lifecycle management, Dev Sec Ops  practices, CI/CD pipelines, configuration management, and release management.
• Experience supporting federal IT systems and compliance frameworks.
• Strong understanding of:
• Application architecture and design patterns
• Database architecture and performance optimization
• Security architecture and risk management
• Disaster recovery and business continuity planning
• Performance and capacity management
• Identity and access management
• Experience developing technical documentation, architecture diagrams, operational procedures, and executive briefings.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Must be able to OBTAIN and MAINTAIN a Federal or DoD "PUBLIC TRUST"; candidates must obtain approved adjudication of their PUBLIC TRUST prior to onboarding with Guidehouse. Candidates with an ACTIVE PUBLIC TRUST or SUITABILITY are preferred.

What Would Be Nice To Have:

• Experience…