Remote Cloud & Data Architecture Leader

ICF; Guin (AL); Remote; USD 119,000 - 203,000; Full time

Job summary

ICF is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to translate enterprise architecture strategies into scalable, secure cloud solutions for federal programs. You will craft architecture artifacts, guide decisions across engineering, security, data, and delivery teams, and ensure alignment with enterprise standards.

You will design data/AI lakehouse architectures leveraging Azure and hybrid clouds, collaborating with stakeholders to assess use cases, manage risks, and accelerate modernization while

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field is required.
• Candidate should have AWS or Azure architecture certs and cloud-native data/AI platform experience.
• Demonstrated ability to design secure, scalable cloud architectures across multi-cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Translate enterprise architecture strategies into scalable, secure solution designs.
• Develop ADRs, reference architectures, and interoperability guidance.
• Collaborate with customer-facing teams to evaluate business and technical use cases.
• Identify integration constraints, dependencies, and risks across apps, platforms, and data environments.
• Ensure proposed solutions align with data, identity, networking, security, hosting, and compliance patterns.
• Support modernization roadmaps, migration readiness, and technology adoption planning.
• Partner with Platform Engineering, Security, Compliance, and Data teams for alignment and delivery.
• Provide guidance on cloud architecture, API strategies, integration patterns, and enterprise design.
• Demonstrate citizenship due to federal contract requirements.
• Experience with multi-cloud architectures (Azure, AWS, hybrids) and tradeoff analyses across scale, governance, security, and cost.
• Strong communication skills to present to executives and governance boards.
• Collaborative mindset focused on customer success and mission outcomes.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Azure

Security

Enterprise Architecture

API strategies

Data governance

DevSecOps

IaC

MLOps

Stakeholder leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

AWS Solutions Architect

TOGAF

Azure Solutions Architect Expert

Tools

Azure Databricks

Azure Synapse

Power BI

Terraform

Azure DevOps

GitHub

Job description

ICF is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to translate enterprise architecture strategies into scalable, secure cloud solutions for federal programs. You will craft architecture artifacts, guide decisions across engineering, security, data, and delivery teams, and ensure alignment with enterprise standards.

You will design data/AI lakehouse architectures leveraging Azure and hybrid clouds, collaborating with stakeholders to assess use cases, manage risks, and accelerate modernization while