Chief Solution Architect

By Light Professional IT Services; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement plan

Paid time off

Job summary

By Light Professional IT Services LLC seeks a Chief Solution Architect to provide technical leadership across enterprise architecture, modernization, and cloud adoption. You will drive standards, govern architectural decisions, and coordinate with government leads on security and performance objectives.

Required are a CS/IS degree, 8+ years in architecture, and AWS SA Pro certification. Experience with microservices, APIs, and AI-enabled development is highly valued.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
• AWS Solutions Architect Professional certification.
• Minimum 8 years in architecture domains (e.g., solution, enterprise, or application).
• Experience with cloud-native architectures and security standards.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and governance for the maintenance and modernization program.
• Set and maintain enterprise architecture standards across project teams.
• Guide modernization from on-prem to AWS cloud services and align with strategic goals.
• Collaborate with government leads and approve major architectural decisions.
• Oversee risk management and ensure compliance with federal security requirements.

Skills

Enterprise Architecture

AWS Cloud

Security Compliance

SOA & APIs

SecDevOps

Legacy Modernization

Microservices

AI in Dev/Ops

Public Trust

Leadership comms

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS

AWS Solutions Architect Professional

Tools

Java

JavaScript (AngularJS)

Python

Rust

Go

PHP

Job description

Overview

By Light Professional IT Services LLC readies warfighters and federal agencies with technology and systems engineered to connect, protect, and prepare individuals and teams for whatever comes next. Headquartered in McLean, VA, By Light supports defense, civilian, and commercial IT customers worldwide.

Responsibilities

• The Chief Solution Architect will provide overall technical leadership and architectural governance for the application maintenance and modernization program, serving as the principal technical authority across all project teams.


• This individual will establish and maintain enterprise architecture standards, guide the modernization strategy from legacy on-premise systems to AWS cloud services, and ensure technical decisions align with both immediate operational needs and long-term strategic objectives.


• The Chief Architect will collaborate closely with government technical leads, review and approve major architectural decisions, oversee technical risk management, and ensure that all solutions comply with federal security requirements and GSA enterprise architecture standards while optimizing for performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.


• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related technical field; AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional certification


• Minimum 8 years\' experience in one or more architecture domains (e.g., business architecture, solutions architecture, application architecture)


• Advanced knowledge and experience in one or more current programming languages (e.g., Java, JavaScript (including AngularJS), Python, Rust, Go, or PHP)


• Experience defining the architecture of cloud deployed applications (AWS preferred)


• Expertise in service-oriented architecture, web services, and Application Programming Interfaces


• Experience defining and driving SecDevOps best practices within large teams, including AI assisted code development


• Experience establishing legacy modernization and migration technical roadmaps for large scale applications


• Experience building applications using service-oriented, microservice, and/or API based architectures at an enterprise scale


• Experience with event-driven applications using queues, service bus and other related patterns


• Experience in working closely with technical leads, engineering teams and architecture stakeholders for technical issues and architecture framework capabilities for use by other development teams


• Ability to translate technically complex features into plain language for leadership


• Experience with AI RAG/LLM implementations and experience implementing and successfully leveraging agentic AI to accelerate software development


• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust