Remote Systems Technical Director

ICF; United States; Remote; USD 159,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

ICF Next is seeking a senior engineering leader to guide a cross‑functional program that includes engineering leads, software engineers, architects, DevSecOps, QA, product managers, data teams and security specialists. You will be the technical authority for platform operations and modernization, balancing current .NET stability with incremental cloud deployment improvements and debt reduction.

You will mentor engineers, set architecture standards, and partner with executives to align roadmaps

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS, software engineering or equivalent.
• 7+ years delivering resilient production web applications including 3+ years with C#, .NET or .NET Core, ASP.NET MVC/Web API, and SQL Server.
• 5+ years designing and delivering APIs or distributed application services using .NET or another modern language and framework.
• 3+ years leading engineering teams, technical leads, or multiple engineering workstreams, including Agile delivery, estimation, dependency management, and technical risk management.
• 3+ years making and documenting architecture decisions across applications, data, integrations, cloud infrastructure, security, and operations, and communicating tradeoffs to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• 3+ years establishing or improving engineering practices for automated testing, code quality, source control, CI/CD, release management, and production support.
• 3+ years guiding the design or implementation of authentication, authorization, role‑based access, privacy protections, and secure handling of sensitive data.
• Authorization to work in the United States, ability to perform all work within the United States, and ability to obtain and maintain a favorable Public Trust determination and complete required background screening.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the program engineering strategy, technical roadmap, architecture guardrails, and incremental modernization approach.
• Lead engineering team leads and multiple development workstreams by aligning priorities, capacity, dependencies, standards, and delivery expectations.
• Provide technical direction for .NET applications, APIs, domain and data models, SQL Server solutions, system integrations, and cloud-hosted services.
• Establish program-wide practices for secure development, automated testing, code review, CI/CD, release readiness, documentation, and production support.
• Evaluate technical options and communicate recommendations, costs, risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs to program leadership and federal stakeholders.
• Partner with product and delivery leaders to shape release plans, estimates, staffing needs, and acceptance criteria that are technically achievable.
• Coordinate architecture and delivery across cloud, DevSecOps, database, security, quality assurance, accessibility, data, user experience, and operations teams.
• Identify and manage technical debt, performance constraints, reliability risks, integration dependencies, and modernization sequencing.
• Oversee response to complex production issues, root‑cause analysis, corrective actions, and improvements to monitoring and operational readiness.
• Mentor engineering leads and senior engineers, strengthen technical decision‑making, and build consistent engineering practices across the program.
• Maintain technical roadmaps, decision records, interface documentation, standards, and executive‑ready status reporting.

Skills

C#

.NET

APIs

Engineering leadership

Agile delivery

CI/CD

Security best practices

Stakeholder communication

Cloud architecture

DevSecOps

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS or related field

Tools

ASP.NET MVC/Web API

SQL Server

AWS GovCloud

Job description

ICF Next is seeking a senior engineering leader to guide a cross‑functional program that includes engineering leads, software engineers, architects, DevSecOps, QA, product managers, data teams and security specialists. You will be the technical authority for platform operations and modernization, balancing current .NET stability with incremental cloud deployment improvements and debt reduction.

You will mentor engineers, set architecture standards, and partner with executives to align roadmaps