Systems Architect

## Systems Architect Apply locations:
US - MD, Rockville:
US - Remote (Any location) time type:
Full time posted on:
Posted Todayjob requisition :
42143
** Job Family:
** Systems Engineering
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* Travel Required:

** Up to 10%
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* 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.
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* What You Will Need:

*** Bachelor's degree . Additional Four(4) years of exp needed in lieu of degree.
* Eight(8) to Ten(10)+ 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 supporting federal grants management systems, shared service platforms, or large public-facing government applications.
* Experience with Grants.gov
* Experience with HHS, ACF, CMS, HRSA, NIH, or other federal grant-making agencies.
* Knowledge of HHS Enterprise Performance Life Cycle (EPLC), federal IT governance, ATO processes, security assessment activities, and compliance-driven delivery environments.
* Experience with Grants.gov-like capabilities, including public-facing web applications, applicant submissions, grantor user management, S2S integrations, forms processing, chatbot…