Technical Solutions Architect

Job Title:
Senior Solution Architect

Location: Remote / Occasional Visit

Employment Type: Full-Time

Client: Federal Government

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.

• Solution Architecture: Define and lead end-to-end solution architecture for cloud-native platforms hosted on AWS Gov Cloud, 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, Dev Sec Ops , infrastructure, cybersecurity, and government stakeholders to align technical solutions with mission and business requirements.

• 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 Gov Cloud 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.

• Experience supporting U.S. federal government technology programs.
• Experience designing, implementing, or maintaining…