Principal Technical Architect Security Clearance

Position: Principal Technical Architect with Security Clearance
About Niyam IT (Niyam) Niyam was founded in 2007 by a group of consultants who shared a unique vision: a technology company steeped in orderly process yet driven by passion and innovation. For nearly two decades, we have served the U.S. Federal government delivering mission-critical IT solutions across Emergency Preparedness and Response, Civilian Agency Services, and Law Enforcement and Public Safety.

Niyam is CMMI DEV Level 3 accredited and ISO certified (ISO 9001:2015, ISO/IEC 20000-1, ISO/IEC 27001), and holds an active CMMC Level 2 certification. We are proud to be recognized as a Best Places to Work by The Washington Post (2025) and USA Today (2026).

What We Offer:

Flexible

Work Hours:

Life doesn’t always fit into a 9-to-5 schedule. We offer flexibility to help you manage your work-life balance effectively.
Remote Work:
Niyam understands the value of flexibility. We offer remote work.
Career Growth:
Niyam is not just a job; it’s a career journey. We provide a supportive environment for your professional development and offer fully paid opportunities for training and advancement within the company.
Great People:
Our people are the blueprint of who Niyam is to the industry and community.
Great Environment:
Niyam fosters a great environment where innovation, collaboration, and personal growth thrive.
Diversity & Inclusion:
We believe in the strength of diverse perspectives. Your unique ideas are welcomed and celebrated every day n us in creating a workplace where innovation, diversity, and well-being thrive. Your journey at Niyam awaits. Apply today! Niyam IT is seeking a Principal Technical Architect to join our corporate engineering team. This is not a single-contract role. You will provide technical leadership and architectural direction across Niyam's federal programs, with your initial and primary assignment supporting on of our federal clients.

As Niyam's portfolio grows, you will be positioned to shape technical strategy, mentor engineering talent, and contribute to solutions like Geo Cube and ARIA across multiple programs and clients, not just the contract you start on. This role sits at the intersection of full stack engineering and applied AI. You will guide the integration of AI and machine learning capabilities into mobile and web applications, including virtual assistants and chatbots, AI-powered search and recommendation features, AI-powered accessibility, and AI-assisted developer tooling for test generation, debugging, and code refactoring.

You will lead delivery of features from design through unit testing, integration testing, and production deployment via a cloud CI/CD Dev Sec Ops  pipeline, while also serving as a technical mentor and architectural voice within Niyam's broader engineering organization. This is a hybrid position, and will require onsite to the client location in Ashburn, VA up to 3-4 days/week

Roles and Responsibilities Own and lead end-to-end solution architecture, ensuring technical solutions align with business, product, user, and mission objectives.
Establish, evolve, and enforce architectural principles, technical standards, design patterns, and engineering guardrails.
Lead technology evaluation and selection, system design, application architecture, and integration strategies across web, mobile, cloud, and AI-enabled solutions.
Provide hands-on technical leadership throughout the software development lifecycle, including designing, developing, and reviewing critical application components, APIs, integrations, and shared services.
Lead the integration of AI and machine learning capabilities into applications, including virtual assistants, chatbots, AI-powered search and recommendations, accessibility features, and AI-assisted development and testing tools.
Translate complex technical requirements into scalable, incremental, and shippable solutions while supporting the development of technical backlogs, user stories, and solution increments.
Collaborate closely with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, developers, architects, security, platform, and operations teams to ensure effective Agile delivery.
Provide technical direction during sprint planning, execution,…