Federal Solutions Architect - Oracle & NIH

A-TEK Inc.; Rockville (MD); On-site; USD 160,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with employer match

paid time off

professional development opportunities

Job summary

A-TEK, Inc. seeks a seasoned Solutions Architect to provide independent architecture oversight for NIH applications, integrations and microservices. You will review architectures, confirm alignment with standards, and advise NIH leadership on strategy.

You’ll collaborate with government personnel, developers and O&M teams to assess security, performance and maintainability, evaluate Oracle APEX and Oracle Cloud solutions, and prepare recommendations for future-state architectures.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of application design, development, integration, or architecture experience.
• 5+ years as a solutions, application, or enterprise architect.
• Experience designing or reviewing Oracle-based enterprise applications.

Responsibilities

• Review application architectures, technical designs, and proposed enhancements.
• Evaluate Oracle Application Express solutions and related Oracle technologies.
• Review application interfaces, APIs, microservices, databases, and data flows.
• Confirm that technical designs comply with established architecture and development standards.
• Assess proposed solutions for security, performance, maintainability, usability, and supportability.
• Review requirements to identify architecture, integration, and implementation risks.
• Evaluate technical debt, unsupported components, and application dependencies.
• Conduct design reviews and provide documented recommendations.
• Review code, configuration, and technical documentation at appropriate delivery points.
• Confirm that completed applications include sufficient documentation for O&M.
• Support peer reviews of requirements, designs, test plans, and release materials.
• Identify opportunities to reuse shared services, components, interfaces, and patterns.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, commercial products, and alternative technical approaches.
• Prepare market research and alternatives analyses.
• Recommend future-state application strategies and investment priorities.
• Present technical findings and recommendations to NIH leadership.
• Work collaboratively with delivery contractors while maintaining independent judgment.

Skills

Independent architecture oversight

Stakeholder communication

Security principles in software

Architecture review and design

API and microservices experience

Oracle APEX experience

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure experience

Relational databases expertise

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, or a related field

Tools

Oracle Application Express

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

APIs

Relational databases

Job description

A-TEK, Inc. seeks a seasoned Solutions Architect to provide independent architecture oversight for NIH applications, integrations and microservices. You will review architectures, confirm alignment with standards, and advise NIH leadership on strategy.

You’ll collaborate with government personnel, developers and O&M teams to assess security, performance and maintainability, evaluate Oracle APEX and Oracle Cloud solutions, and prepare recommendations for future-state architectures.