Senior Architect

SimpliGov LLC; Baltimore (MD); On-site; USD 185,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/dental/vision

Life/disabilities

11 paid holidays

Flexible time off

401k with employer match

Wellness/home office stipends

Job summary

SimpliGov LLC in Baltimore, MD is seeking an architect to raise the design floor across engineering, providing practical technical direction in a FedRAMP-conscious environment.

You will shape a govtech platform spanning microservices, front-end replatforming, AI products, and AI-native delivery, while keeping systems coherent, safe, and fast to change.

This role emphasizes architectural judgment, coaching teams, and collaboration with AI Operations and DevOps to codify design in delivery.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of engineering experience and driving architecture across multiple teams in SaaS or platform environments.
• Track record of designs that shipped and held up in production.
• Experience decomposing a monolith into services in production.
• Fluency with AI-era architecture and LLM integration patterns.

Responsibilities

• Own cross-cutting technical direction across service boundaries and platform evolution.
• Design architecture decisions with explicit trade-offs and written rationale.
• Collaborate with dependent teams, gathering requirements and validating with real users.
• Coach tech leads to raise overall architectural capability of the organization.
• Keep designs simple and avoid unneeded complexity; treat it as a defect when present.
• Partner with AI Operations and DevOps to enforce architecture in delivery systems.
• Provide architectural judgment on AI agent-generated code within human-owned structure.

Skills

Engineering experience

Architecture across teams

SaaS/Platform experience

AI/LLM patterns

Regulated environments

Written/verbal clarity

Job description

Role Overview:

We are hiring an architect to raise the design floor across engineering through trusted, practical technical direction. You’ll shape a govtech platform spanning microservices, front-end replatforming, AI products, and AI-native delivery—making the system coherent, safe, and fast to change within a FedRAMP-conscious environment.

Responsibilities:

• Own cross-cutting technical direction: service boundaries, contracts, data architecture, and platform evolution across our decomposition and replatforming programs
• Design in the open: architecture decision records, design reviews inside our Plan-and-Review cadence, explicit trade-offs, and written reasoning others can challenge
• Treat dependent teams as first-class customers: gather their requirements before designing, validate against real consumers before building, and close the loop when things change
• Raise the floor: coach tech leads through their own designs; success is more people who can architect, not more decisions routed through you
• Keep designs as simple as the problem allows; we treat unneeded complexity as a defect, not a signal of sophistication
• Partner with AI Operations and DevOps so architecture is enforced by the delivery system (contracts, validation, gates) rather than by memo
• Bring architectural judgment to how AI agents design and modify systems, so machine-produced code lands inside human-owned structure

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of engineering experience, including several years driving architecture across multiple teams in SaaS or platform environments
• A track record of designs that shipped and held up in production; we will ask what broke and what you learned
• Real experience decomposing a monolith into services in production, with the scars to show for it
• Fluency with AI-era architecture: agentic systems, LLM integration patterns, and designing for codebases partially produced by agents
• Experience in regulated environments (FedRAMP, StateRAMP, HIPAA, or similar) is a strong plus
• Exceptional written and verbal clarity; you make complex systems legible

Key Competencies

• Comprehension before construction: you restate requirements in your own words and confirm them before you design
• Visible uncertainty: you surface confusion early and loudly; silent guessing is the one behavior we cannot work with
• Consumer empathy: the constraints of dependent teams are design inputs, not obstacles
• Simplicity bias: the best design is the one the team can carry without you
• Comfortable being wrong in public and fast to update

What This Role Is NOT

This is not an ivory-tower seat and not a gatekeeping seat. If your model of architecture is producing artifacts that other people must implement, or serving as the mandatory approval on every decision, this is not the fit. Architecture here is a service to the teams shipping, and its success is measured by how much better they design, not by how often they need you.

How We Work

We run an AI-native development lifecycle where agents help plan, build, validate, and release, while humans own judgment and direction. Our standards are simple: own and understand everything you ship, and surface uncertainty early.

What We Offer:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance plans, with significant employer contributions for employees AND dependents (contributions based on base-level plan; buyup plans available at additional costs)
• Company-sponsored life/disabilities insurances
• 11 Paid holidays
• Flexible time off
• 401k plan with 4% employer match
• Monthly stipends for wellness and home office expenses

Legal Disclaimers:

SimpliGovdoes not sponsor applicants for work visas.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is approximately $185,000.00 - $215,000.00+ bonus + benefits. Individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

SimpliGovparticipates in the federal government's E-Verify program, which confirms employment authorization of all newly hired employees and most existing employees through an electronic database maintained by the Social Security Administration and Department of Homeland Security. For new hires, the E-Verify process is completed in conjunction with the Form I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification on or before the first day of work. It is not used as a screening tool.