Remote Principal Architect – Federal Data Platform

eSimplicity; Columbia (MD); On-site; USD 101,100 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

401(k) retirement benefits

Paid time off

Life and disability insurance

Wellness programs

Job summary

eSimplicity, a modern digital services company for federal agencies, is seeking a Principal Architect to guide reference architecture, governance, and major trade‑offs for a large data and analytics modernization program.

The role covers cloud platforms, APIs, AI/ML enablement, security, interoperability, and transition readiness, collaborating with stakeholders across engineering, data, product, and security teams to deliver reusable, secure solutions.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience with engineering best practices.
• Bachelor’s degree in CS, Information Systems, Engineering, Math, or related field.
• Public trust clearance: U.S. citizen or equivalent foreign national process.
• Experience leading architecture for cloud, data, analytics, API, AI/ML ecosystems with multiple teams.
• Knowledge of cloud, lakehouse data platforms, governance, IAM, and CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Own reference architecture, standards, governance, and interoperability patterns for the program.
• Lead cross‑team coverage across cloud, data, analytics, API, AI/ML, security, and governance domains.
• Guide architecture for platform‑first delivery, IaC, data trust, and secure data sharing.
• Coordinate reviews with stakeholders, partners, and product teams on architecture decisions.
• Develop architectural artifacts including diagrams, runbooks, and data‑flow documentation.
• Assess services against security, privacy, accessibility, cost transparency, and observability criteria.
• Support cross‑platform coordination for interfaces, ingestion timelines, and release dependencies.
• Promote open, portable, reusable solutions with minimal vendor lock‑in.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Data governance

API development

AI/ML platform

Security compliance

Stakeholder leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Information Systems

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Infrastructure as Code

Databricks

AWS

Terraform

Job description

eSimplicity, a modern digital services company for federal agencies, is seeking a Principal Architect to guide reference architecture, governance, and major trade‑offs for a large data and analytics modernization program.

The role covers cloud platforms, APIs, AI/ML enablement, security, interoperability, and transition readiness, collaborating with stakeholders across engineering, data, product, and security teams to deliver reusable, secure solutions.