Senior Systems Technical Director - .NET & Cloud Modernization

ICF Olson; United States; Hybrid; USD 159,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

ICF Olson is seeking a senior engineering leader to serve as the technical authority for a cross-functional program, guiding architecture, delivery, operations, and modernization across .NET, APIs, and cloud services.

You will balance current platform reliability with incremental modernization, improved cloud deployment, data quality, observability, and debt reduction, while mentoring engineers and shaping release plans and staffing.

Qualifications

• 7+ years delivering and supporting resilient, well-tested production web applications.
• 5+ years designing and delivering APIs or distributed services using .NET or similar.
• 3+ years leading engineering teams and multiple workstreams.
• 3+ years making and documenting architecture decisions across apps, data, cloud, security, and operations.
• 3+ years establishing automated testing, code quality, source control, CI/CD, release management, and production support.
• 3+ years guiding authentication, authorization, RBAC, privacy protections, and secure data handling.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain program engineering strategy, roadmap, guardrails, and modernization approach.
• Lead engineering leads and multiple workstreams, align priorities and delivery expectations.
• Provide technical direction for .NET applications, APIs, data models, SQL Server, and cloud services.
• Establish secure development, automated testing, code review, CI/CD, release readiness, and production support.
• Evaluate options and communicate recommendations, costs, risks, and tradeoffs to leadership and stakeholders.
• Coordinate architecture and delivery across cloud, DevSecOps, database, security, QA, accessibility, data, UX, and operations teams.
• Mentor leads and engineers to strengthen technical decision-making and best practices.

Skills

C#/.NET

ASP.NET MVC/Web API

SQL Server

Architecture decisions

Leadership

Agile delivery

DevSecOps familiarity

Security best practices

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/SE or equivalent

Job description

ICF Olson is seeking a senior engineering leader to serve as the technical authority for a cross-functional program, guiding architecture, delivery, operations, and modernization across .NET, APIs, and cloud services.

You will balance current platform reliability with incremental modernization, improved cloud deployment, data quality, observability, and debt reduction, while mentoring engineers and shaping release plans and staffing.