Senior IT Architect / Team Lead with Security Clearance

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

Overview BlueWater Federal is looking for a Senior IT Architect / Team Lead to support the DOE EHSS Application, Infrastructure, and Cybersecurity Support (AICS) program AICS enables secure, reliable, and data-driven operations across the DOE enterprise through application modernization, DevSecOps, Zero Trust implementation, continuous monitoring, and infrastructure sustainment supporting EHSS's environment, health, safety, security, and classification missions. This is a hybrid role with potential support of multiple DOE sites in the DC metro area.

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.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in information technology or similar field. 6+ years of experience can be substituted for the bachelor's degree (included as part of the experience requirement, not additional).
• 7 + years designing and developing new software or major software revisions.
• Top-level technical expertise creating architectures and addressing systems-integration compatibility.
• 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.
• BlueWater Federal is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law.
• BlueWater Federal is a VEVRAA federal contractor and we request priority referral of veterans.
• We offer a competitive health and wellness benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Our competitive compensation package includes generous 401k matching, employee stock purchase program, and life insurance options, and time off with pay.
• Salary range: 180-210K