Senior Tech Lead & Solution Architect – Platform Modernization

Guidehouse; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 216,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance

401(k) Retirement Plan

Paid Holidays

Job summary

Guidehouse is seeking a Senior Technical Lead / Solution Architect to provide hands-on technical leadership for a large-scale federal platform modernization program. You will translate approved architectures into actionable guidance for multiple workstreams and vendors, ensuring security, scalability, and interoperability.

You will mentor engineers, drive API and cloud-native implementations, perform design reviews, and uphold engineering standards across delivery teams.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the senior implementation-focused technical lead for a large-scale platform modernization program delivered through iterative agile execution.
• Collaborate with the integrated architecture team to refine solution designs and translate architecture into actionable guidance.
• Communicate approved solution designs, reference architectures, design patterns, data standards, interface contracts, and engineering guardrails to teams and vendors.
• Provide day-to-day technical leadership to engineers implementing APIs, data exchanges, shared services, cloud-native solutions, DevSecOps capabilities, and incremental migrations.
• Review designs, code, configurations, interfaces, and deliverables to ensure alignment with architecture and standards.
• Establish checkpoints, code and design review practices, and traceability to reinforce architectural compliance.
• Identify deviations, risks, technical debt, and standards violations; escalate and remediate with the architecture team.
• Coordinate technical implementation across Scrum teams and vendors to maintain consistency in service boundaries and interfaces.
• Resolve cross-team dependencies while preserving architectural intent and engaging architects for design-level decisions.
• Mentor technical leads and engineers, strengthening engineering discipline and consistent use of approved patterns and practices.
• Provide status, risks, compliance concerns, and corrective actions to architects, program leadership, and stakeholders.

Job description

Guidehouse is seeking a Senior Technical Lead / Solution Architect to provide hands-on technical leadership for a large-scale federal platform modernization program. You will translate approved architectures into actionable guidance for multiple workstreams and vendors, ensuring security, scalability, and interoperability.

You will mentor engineers, drive API and cloud-native implementations, perform design reviews, and uphold engineering standards across delivery teams.