Senior IT Architect & Team Lead — Cloud, CI/CD, Zero Trust

BlueWater Federal Solutions; Germantown (MD); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k matching

Employee stock purchase program

Life insurance

Health, dental, vision coverage

Paid time off

Job summary

BlueWater Federal Solutions seeks a Senior IT Architect and Team Lead to support the DOE EHSS AICS program, delivering secure, scalable architectures across applications, infrastructure, and cybersecurity in a hybrid, DC-area setting.

Ideal candidates bring 7+ years designing software and leading deployments, an active Top Secret clearance (with ability to obtain a Q), and TOGAF/AWS/Azure credentials; salary ranges between 180k–210k with strong benefits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in information technology or similar field; 6+ years of experience can substitute.
• 7+ years designing and developing new software or major software revisions.
• Top-level technical expertise creating architectures and addressing systems-integration compatibility.
• Experience coordinating QA-compliant development and production releases, source control, automated testing, CI, and configuration management.
• TOGAF, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, or Azure Solutions Architect Expert preferred.
• Must have an active Top Secret clearance with the ability to obtain a Q clearance.

Responsibilities

• Create high-level architectural specifications and resolve integration, interoperability, platform, security, and compatibility issues.
• Gather and elaborate requirements, acceptance criteria, dependencies, assumptions, alternatives, risks, technical approaches, labor estimates, and schedules.
• Lead feasibility analyses and present architectural options for software, hardware, cloud, data, APIs, and processes.
• Establish schedules, assign technical responsibilities, monitor progress, and coordinate prototype, UAT, and production releases.
• Lead source control, automated testing, CI/CD, QA, and change, release, and configuration management.
• Ensure solutions conform to DOE/EHSS enterprise architecture, Section 508, Zero Trust, identity/access, cybersecurity, and secure-development requirements.

Skills

Architectural design

Requirements gathering

Feasibility analysis

Team leadership

CI/CD

Security architecture

Cloud expertise

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in information technology or similar

Tools

Git

Job description

BlueWater Federal Solutions seeks a Senior IT Architect and Team Lead to support the DOE EHSS AICS program, delivering secure, scalable architectures across applications, infrastructure, and cybersecurity in a hybrid, DC-area setting.

Ideal candidates bring 7+ years designing software and leading deployments, an active Top Secret clearance (with ability to obtain a Q), and TOGAF/AWS/Azure credentials; salary ranges between 180k–210k with strong benefits.