Federal Technical Architecture Lead - DevSecOps & Cloud

Accenture-Federal-Services-2; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 224,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Federal Services is seeking a Technical Architecture Lead to drive end-to-end architecture for a high-stakes federal program. You will align solutions with mission needs, set standards, and guide a cross-functional engineering team to maintain production and COOP environments, while overseeing DevSecOps, migrations, and patching.

Applicants should have 5+ years across the delivery lifecycle, strong documentation skills, and experience with federal C&A processes.

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing, building, refactoring, and operating large scale IT systems.
• 5+ years across the full solution delivery lifecycle and managing engineering teams (≥5 engineers)
• Strong technical documentation and standards management
• Experience with federal Certification & Accreditation (C&A) processes
• Holistic command of technical solutions; decisive problem solving and technology recommendations
• Operational leadership across production/COOP environments: environment readiness, system health, ticketing, code migrations, security patching
• Planning & coordination: capacity planning, PI planning, and release timelines across multiple teams
• DevSecOps enablement and governance
• Succinct, confident communication to clients, leadership, and management
• Oversight competencies to include cloud cost/resource management; container/orchestration best practices; network architecture & migration governance; security incident response; AI/LLM solution governance; infrastructure compliance & drift; release & change management; team enablement & tooling adoption; Expert level solution architecture; advanced AWS cloud native design

Responsibilities

• The Technical Architecture Lead drives the program’s end to end architecture, aligning solutions to mission needs, establishing standards and documentation, and communicating clearly with clients and leadership.
• Manages a cross functional engineering team to keep production and COOP environments healthy, oversees DevSecOps practices, code migrations and security patching, and coordinates capacity planning, PI planning, accreditation audits, and contingency testing.

Skills

Architectural design

Engineering leadership

Documentation

C&A processes

Solution governance

Production/COOP ops

Capacity planning

DevSecOps

Client communication

Technical oversight

Job description

Accenture Federal Services is seeking a Technical Architecture Lead to drive end-to-end architecture for a high-stakes federal program. You will align solutions with mission needs, set standards, and guide a cross-functional engineering team to maintain production and COOP environments, while overseeing DevSecOps, migrations, and patching.

Applicants should have 5+ years across the delivery lifecycle, strong documentation skills, and experience with federal C&A processes.