Senior System Architect for Federal Cloud Modernization

Orchard LLC; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Orchard LLC in Huntsville, AL is seeking a Principal System Architect with an active Top Secret clearance to drive enterprise architecture, modernization strategies, and system design for a major federal transformation program. You will lead cross-functional teams across engineering, cloud, DevSecOps, and security to define patterns, standards, and governance.

The role emphasizes architecture governance, end-to-end solution design, and alignment with cloud-native and secure design principles,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; 12+ years in enterprise architecture, software engineering, or system design.
• Experience architecting large scale, cloud-enabled systems.
• Expertise across application, integration, data, cloud, and security domains.
• Hands-on with modern frameworks, microservices, distributed systems, and API design.

Responsibilities

• Develop and lead the technical architecture vision, strategy, and roadmap for large-scale modernization.
• Define system-wide patterns, standards, integration approaches, and modernization frameworks.
• Ensure architectures align with cloud-native, microservices, and security-forward design principles.
• Architect end-to-end solutions across application, data, security, and cloud layers.
• Lead refactoring, legacy decomposition, and modernization of mission workloads.
• Provide architectural governance, design reviews, and decision frameworks.
• Collaborate with engineers, cloud, migration, DevSecOps, QA, and product leads.
• Support CI/CD, cloud deployments, and platform operations.
• Provide guidance during sprint planning and release readiness.
• Ensure designs meet security and compliance standards.
• Produce architecture diagrams, models, specifications, and decision records.

Skills

Enterprise architecture leadership

System design

Cloud architecture

Security architecture

DevSecOps

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Orchard LLC in Huntsville, AL is seeking a Principal System Architect with an active Top Secret clearance to drive enterprise architecture, modernization strategies, and system design for a major federal transformation program. You will lead cross-functional teams across engineering, cloud, DevSecOps, and security to define patterns, standards, and governance.

The role emphasizes architecture governance, end-to-end solution design, and alignment with cloud-native and secure design principles,