Remote Systems Technical Director

ICF Next; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 159,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

ICF Next is seeking a Systems / Technical Director to lead a cross-functional engineering program focused on a mission-critical data platform. You will steer architecture, modernization, and secure delivery across .NET-based systems, APIs, and cloud-hosted services while balancing reliability with progressive modernization.

You’ll mentor senior engineers, align multi-team priorities, and report on architecture decisions and progress to federal stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience in a related field.
• 7+ years architecting or delivering resilient production enterprise apps and data platforms with C#/.NET.
• 5+ years architecting APIs, enterprise integrations, or distributed services.
• 3+ years leading engineering teams and Agile delivery.
• 3+ years documenting architecture decisions across applications, data, integrations, and cloud.

Responsibilities

• Define the program engineering strategy, roadmap, and modernization approach.
• Lead engineering teams and multiple workstreams, align priorities and delivery expectations.
• Provide technical direction across architectures, APIs, data models, and cloud services.
• Establish secure development, automated testing, CI/CD, and production support practices.
• Communicate technical tradeoffs, costs, risks, and dependencies to leadership and stakeholders.
• Mentor engineering leads and maintain executive-ready status reports.

Skills

Leadership

C#/.NET know-how

API design

Agile delivery

Stakeholder communication

Security practices

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Software Eng or related field

Equivalent professional experience

Tools

C#/.NET

ASP.NET MVC/Web API

SQL Server

Job description

ICF Next is seeking a Systems / Technical Director to lead a cross-functional engineering program focused on a mission-critical data platform. You will steer architecture, modernization, and secure delivery across .NET-based systems, APIs, and cloud-hosted services while balancing reliability with progressive modernization.

You’ll mentor senior engineers, align multi-team priorities, and report on architecture decisions and progress to federal stakeholders.