Remote Senior Cloud Solutions Architect

GovCIO; Columbia (SC); Remote; USD 125,000 - 199,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Corporate Discounts

Learning & Development platform

Training, Education and Certification

Referral Bonus Program

Internal Mobility Program

Pet Insurance

Flexible Work Environment

Job summary

GovCIO is seeking a Chief Solutions Architect to provide technical leadership for an application maintenance and modernization program. This remote senior role focuses on establishing enterprise architecture standards, guiding cloud migration to AWS, and aligning decisions with security requirements and cost optimization.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years in architecture domains, deep knowledge of modern programming languages, and experience designing large-scale, service-oriented, event-driven

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related technical field
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional certification
• Minimum 8 years' experience in one or more architecture domains (e.g., business architecture, solutions architecture, application architecture)
• Advanced knowledge and experience in one or more current programming languages (e.g., Java, JavaScript, Python, Rust, Go, PHP)
• Experience defining the architecture of cloud deployed applications (AWS preferred)
• Expertise in SOA, web services, and APIs
• Experience defining and driving SecDevOps best practices within large teams, including AI assisted code development
• Experience establishing legacy modernization and migration roadmaps for large scale applications
• Experience building applications using service-oriented, microservice, and/or API-based architectures at enterprise scale
• Experience with event-driven applications using queues, service bus and related patterns
• Ability to translate complex features into plain language for leadership
• Experience with AI RAG/LLM implementations and agentic AI to accelerate software development

Responsibilities

• Lead technical leadership and architectural governance for modernization programs
• Establish and maintain enterprise architecture standards
• Guide modernization strategy from on-premise to AWS cloud services
• Collaborate with government technical leads to review major architectural decisions
• Oversee technical risk management and security compliance across projects
• Ensure scalable, cost-effective, high-performance solutions

Skills

Enterprise architecture leadership

Technical governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Information Systems related field

Tools

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional

Job description

GovCIO is seeking a Chief Solutions Architect to provide technical leadership for an application maintenance and modernization program. This remote senior role focuses on establishing enterprise architecture standards, guiding cloud migration to AWS, and aligning decisions with security requirements and cost optimization.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years in architecture domains, deep knowledge of modern programming languages, and experience designing large-scale, service-oriented, event-driven