Senior Cloud Architect — Remote (Federal Programs)

ICF International; United States; Remote; USD 144,000 - 245,000; Full time

Job summary

ICF International is seeking an experienced Cloud Architect to provide senior technical leadership across enterprise architecture, platform integration, and application modernization for a complex federal technology services program. This remote US-based role demands deep cloud, SaaS, secure integration, and governance expertise to translate mission needs into scalable technical solutions.

The candidate will guide solution design across cloud providers, APIs, automation, and secure access

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• U.S. Citizenship due to federal contract requirements.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Federal Public Trust clearance.
• 15+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, systems integration, platform engineering, application modernization, or product engineering.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise architecture, platform integration, product engineering, and application modernization across a complex federal technology environment.
• Establish and maintain technical architecture standards, reference patterns, integration approaches, and governance for SaaS, cloud, platform, and application capabilities.
• Guide solution design across cloud providers, SaaS platforms, enterprise tools, APIs, and secure access patterns.
• Lead architectural design reviews and governance forums to ensure secure, scalable, and maintainable solutions.
• Define and govern integration patterns using APIs, SDKs, webhooks, event streams, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Support infrastructure-as-code, policy-as-code, configuration-as-code, and other automation practices.
• Guide product development, delivery, and sustainment teams through lifecycle stages from requirements to deployment and monitoring.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity to embed Zero Trust, access controls, logging, encryption, and compliance requirements.
• Coordinate with data teams to support governed data access, analytics, reporting, and AI-enabled capabilities.
• Provide technical leadership for platform rationalization, lifecycle planning, and modernization playbooks.
• Support release planning, documentation, runbooks, and knowledge transfer.

Job description

ICF International is seeking an experienced Cloud Architect to provide senior technical leadership across enterprise architecture, platform integration, and application modernization for a complex federal technology services program. This remote US-based role demands deep cloud, SaaS, secure integration, and governance expertise to translate mission needs into scalable technical solutions.

The candidate will guide solution design across cloud providers, APIs, automation, and secure access