Senior IT Architect & Team Lead — Hybrid, Security-Focused

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

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive health, dental, vision

401k matching

Employee stock purchase program

Life insurance

Paid time off

Job summary

BlueWater Federal is seeking a Senior IT Architect / Team Lead to support the DOE EHSS Application, Infrastructure, and Cybersecurity Support (AICS) program. The role is hybrid, with potential support across the DC metro area.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years of software architecture experience, active Top Secret clearance, and certifications (TOGAF, AWS/Azure). Responsibilities include defining architectures, overseeing CI/CD, and ensuring compliance with security standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in information technology or similar field.
• 6+ years of experience; degree may be substituted.
• 7+ years designing and developing new software or major revisions.
• Experience with requirements, cost reporting, alternatives analysis, schedules, responsibility assignment, and progress monitoring.
• 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

Software architecture

Systems integration

Requirements analysis

QA & CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree in information technology

Tools

AWS

Azure

TOGAF

Job description

BlueWater Federal is seeking a Senior IT Architect / Team Lead to support the DOE EHSS Application, Infrastructure, and Cybersecurity Support (AICS) program. The role is hybrid, with potential support across the DC metro area.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years of software architecture experience, active Top Secret clearance, and certifications (TOGAF, AWS/Azure). Responsibilities include defining architectures, overseeing CI/CD, and ensuring compliance with security standards.