Chief Solutions Architect

Brooksource; United States; On-site; USD 130,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Chief Architect to lead the architectural design and technical strategy across its systems. This role involves significant experience in IT and systems architecture, particularly in cloud technologies, and aims to ensure alignment with business objectives. Candidates should possess strong leadership and collaboration skills along with expertise in modern technologies and compliance standards, helping drive architectural excellence across the organization.

Benefits

Medical insurance

Vision insurance

Qualifications

• 10-12 years of progressive experience in IT and systems architecture.
• 5+ years in enterprise or solution architecture roles.
• 3+ years in cloud architecture and modernization efforts.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for the overarching system architecture across existing and emerging ecosystems.
• Provides technical leadership to define architectural vision and establish standards.
• Develops end-to-end requirements for systems and assists staff with development.

Skills

Architectural Design Expertise

Leadership in Technical Strategy

Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration

Modern Technologies and Frameworks

Software Lifecycle Management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems

Tools

CloudFormation

Terraform

Job description

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Position Overview:

Accountable for the overarching system architecture across both existing and emerging ecosystems, ensuring cohesive integration, scalability, and alignment with business and mission objectives. Provides technical leadership to define the architectural vision, establish standards, and guide solution design across the enterprise. Develops a project's end-to-end requirements in the subject matter area for simple to moderately complex systems. Assists staff with the development, analysis, and evaluation of recommendations for system improvements, optimization, development, and/or maintenance efforts in any specialized technical area including but not limited to; information systems architecture, networking, telecommunications, automation, communications protocols, risk management/electronic analysis, software, lifecycle management, software development methodologies, and modeling and simulation.

Required Experience:

• 10–12 years of progressive experience in IT and systems architecture, including:
• 5+ years specifically in enterprise or solution architecture roles.
• 3+ years in cloud architecture and modernization efforts in federal or similarly regulated environments.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field required.

Preferred Experience:

• 2–3 years working in the VA or federal civilian agencies with exposure to VBA systems
• Experience with MISMO and similar data interoperability frameworks is highly desirable.
• Master’s degree preferred or may substitute for 2 years of experience.
• Relevant certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect, TOGAF, SAFe Architect, CISSP, Salesforce Architect) strongly preferred.

Skills and Expertise:

• Extensive Architectural Design Expertise: Proven experience in designing and developing complex software systems on premise and in the cloud, ensuring scalability, security, and high performance for enterprise-level applications.
• Leadership in Technical Strategy: Demonstrated success in leading the technical vision and strategic direction of software architecture design and implementation, aligning it with organizational goals and ensuring seamless integration with other systems.
• Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration: Adept at working with engineering, product management, customer stakeholder, and other cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions, fostering collaboration and innovation.
• Experience with Modern Technologies and Frameworks: Expertise in utilizing cutting-edge technologies, frameworks, and best practices to design innovative software solutions that meet business needs, regulatory and compliance requirements, and technical standards. Strong Background in Software Lifecycle Management: In-depth knowledge of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), with a focus on architecting and maintaining solutions that evolve with changing business needs while maintaining system integrity.
• Familiarity with home loan mortgage housing finance loan lifecycle business rule implementations with regulatory and organizational lending policy compliance desirable

Specialized Skills:

• Expertise in designing large-scale, secure, cloud-native and hybrid systems
• Experience designing and implementing Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) principles.
• Experience designing and developing multi-cloud system architectures integrating AWS and Salesforce services, business processes, data models, and security creating operational ecosystems.
• Proficiency selecting optimal AWS services designing and developing architectures around compute, networking, security, and storage in alignment with business and mission drivers.

API and Integration Architecture

• Experience with Salesforce API design, development, system integration, and implementation.
• Design and governance of RESTful APIs, event-driven architecture, and enterprise integration patterns.
• Familiarity with API lifecycle management, developer portals, and third-party integration (e.g., MISMO compliance for mortgage data exchange).

Cybersecurity and Compliance

• Deep understanding of Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA), NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, and VA-specific IT security standards.
• Ability to incorporate security-by-design and privacy-by-design principles in system architecture.
• Understanding of Section 508 compliant implementation practices and considerations as applicable to architecture design.

DevSecOps and CI/CD Pipeline Architecture

• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Experience building scalable CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab, or GitHub Actions, with integrated security for continuous ATO on demand production deployments.
• Experience with data modeling, metadata management, data interoperability, and master data management (MDM).
• Familiarity with VA data governance frameworks and veteran-centric data architecture.

Modern Software Development Frameworks

• Understanding modern programming languages (e.g., Java, Python, Node.js) and frameworks (e.g., Spring Boot, .NET Core, React).
• Understanding of microservices, event sourcing, and container orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS).

Agile Framework

• Ability to lead architecture in agile settings at scale, working within industry leading agile frameworks e.g. SAFe, Scrum at Scale, Large Scale Scrum.

System Interoperability and Standards Compliance

• Experience developing system architecture using a multi cloud operational environment.
• Interoperability- familiarity integrating Salesforce with AWS custom code micro services and Oracle database.
• Knowledge of MISMO standards for mortgage systems and other relevant industry data exchange standards.

Leadership and Stakeholder Engagement:

• Ability to communicate architectural decisions and trade-offs to both technical teams and non-technical executives.
• Skilled in facilitating design sessions, technical roadmap development, and driving c

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Contract

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology and Strategy/Planning

• Industries

  Financial Services and Government Administration

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