Enterprise Cloud Architect: Federal SaaS Modernization

ICF; Reston (VA); A distancia; USD 144.000 - 245.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

ICF seeks an experienced Cloud Architect to provide senior leadership across enterprise architecture, platform integration, and application modernization for a complex federal technology services program. The role guides solution design across cloud providers, SaaS ecosystems, and automation, ensuring secure, scalable, and governance-aligned delivery.

The position requires translating mission needs into scalable technical solutions while coordinating with cybersecurity, data, and client

Formación

• Bachelor's degree required.
• U.S. Citizenship required due to federal contract.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Federal Public Trust clearance.
• 15+ years of experience leading enterprise architecture, systems integration, platform engineering, application modernization, or product engineering in complex enterprise environments.
• One active cloud, enterprise architecture, security, or IT service management certification, such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Google Professional Cloud Architect, TOGAF, CISSP, Security+, ITIL Foundation, or equivalent.

Responsabilidades

• Lead enterprise architecture, platform integration, product engineering, and application modernization activities across a complex federal technology environment.
• Establish and maintain technical architecture standards, reference patterns, integration approaches, and governance guardrails for SaaS, cloud, platform, and application capabilities.
• Guide solution design across cloud service providers, SaaS platforms, enterprise productivity tools, low-code platforms, APIs, workflow automation, data integrations, and secure access patterns.
• Lead architectural design reviews and technical decision forums to ensure proposed solutions are secure, scalable, supportable, and aligned with modernization objectives.
• Define and govern integration patterns using APIs, SDKs, webhooks, event streams, serverless functions, workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and automation tools.
• Support implementation of infrastructure-as-code, policy-as-code, configuration-as-code, DNS-as-code, and other repeatable automation practices.
• Guide product development, delivery, and sustainment teams through requirements definition, solution design, backlog refinement, development, testing, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
• Partner with cybersecurity teams to ensure Zero Trust principles, access controls, logging, monitoring, encryption, vulnerability remediation, and compliance requirements are incorporated into solution design and delivery.
• Coordinate with data teams to ensure applications, integrations, and platforms support governed data access, data quality, analytics, reporting, and AI-enabled capabilities.
• Provide technical leadership for platform rationalization, application lifecycle planning, performance optimization, technical debt reduction, and automation opportunities.
• Support release planning, change management, technical documentation, implementation plans, architecture diagrams, runbooks, and knowledge transfer materials.
• Translate complex technical issues into clear recommendations for client stakeholders, program leadership, product teams, and delivery partners.

Conocimientos

Enterprise architecture

Systems integration

Platform engineering

Application modernization

Product engineering

Reference architecture

Security governance

Educación

Bachelor's degree

Herramientas

AWS Certified Solutions Architect

Azure Solutions Architect Expert

Google Professional Cloud Architect

TOGAF

CISSP

Security+

ITIL Foundation

Descripción del empleo

ICF seeks an experienced Cloud Architect to provide senior leadership across enterprise architecture, platform integration, and application modernization for a complex federal technology services program. The role guides solution design across cloud providers, SaaS ecosystems, and automation, ensuring secure, scalable, and governance-aligned delivery.

The position requires translating mission needs into scalable technical solutions while coordinating with cybersecurity, data, and client