Senior Platform Architect: Mainframe and Cloud Strategy

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc.; Town of Colonie (NY); Hybrid; USD 145,000 - 196,000; Full time

Job summary

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. seeks a Platform Engineer Sr Principal to drive the enterprise architecture strategy for the eMedNY program in New York.

You will oversee mainframe COBOL/CICS/DB2 and cloud-native AWS services, balancing HIPAA compliance with aggressive delivery goals. You will chair governance boards, guide multiple technical leads, and ensure architecture aligns with regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive enterprise or solution architecture leadership.
• Senior technical authority on large, complex programs.
• Experience as accountable technical lead on programs of comparable scale.

Responsibilities

• Set and defend technical direction across mainframe and cloud platforms.
• Arbitrate design decisions and challenge estimates in architecture reviews.
• Provide executive-level status, documentation, and risk analysis to leadership.
• Mentor program leads including security architecture and governance.

Skills

AWS Architecture

Enterprise Solutions Architecture

Leadership Management

Mainframe Technologies

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering

MS in Information Technology or MBA (preferred)

Job description

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. seeks a Platform Engineer Sr Principal to drive the enterprise architecture strategy for the eMedNY program in New York.

You will oversee mainframe COBOL/CICS/DB2 and cloud-native AWS services, balancing HIPAA compliance with aggressive delivery goals. You will chair governance boards, guide multiple technical leads, and ensure architecture aligns with regulatory requirements.