Senior Technical Solutions Architect - Central IT Lead

iVision Consulting; Bethesda (MD); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

Paid Time Off (PTO)

Company Holidays (Federal)

401(k) Retirement Plan

Personal Development & Learning

Employee Referral Program

Community Outreach

Job summary

iVision Consulting is seeking a Senior or Principal Technical Solutions Architect to lead NIH Central IT consolidation efforts. Hybrid role onsite 2-3 days/week in Bethesda, MD, with a broad remit across networking, cloud, identity, and security services.

Excellent communication and leadership are required to drive enterprise-wide decisions. The candidate will guide technical discovery, assess target architectures, and develop migration plans while ensuring operational readiness and risk

Qualifications

• 15+ years in enterprise IT engineering, operations, or architecture with senior lead experience.
• Experience leading large-scale IT consolidation or centralization efforts spanning multiple units/vendors.
• Deep expertise across core infrastructure domains and broad enterprise commodity IT knowledge.
• Knowledge of networking, data center, hybrid cloud, identity/services, end-user computing, email/Collaboration, cybersecurity, and software asset management.
• Turn incomplete information into well-documented requirements, risks, and actionable plans.
• Proven ability to lead technical discussions across teams with differing priorities.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical discovery and assessment with NIH central IT and stakeholders.
• Provide technical leadership across commodity IT workstreams.
• Drive technical working sessions and decisions; resolve technical disagreements.
• Understand local requirements with Institutes and Centers and identify service needs.
• Assess target architectures for feasibility, scalability, security, and supportability.
• Translate findings into project plans, prerequisites, milestones, and dependencies.
• Develop migration approaches, transition plans, and readiness criteria.
• Define service ownership, escalation paths, and service levels.

Skills

Technical leadership

Enterprise IT engineering

IT consolidation

Cross-team collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree (IT/CS/Engineering)

Tools

Cisco

Palo Alto

F5

Microsoft 365

Entra ID

VMware/Hyper-V

AWS

Azure

ServiceNow

Job description

iVision Consulting is seeking a Senior or Principal Technical Solutions Architect to lead NIH Central IT consolidation efforts. Hybrid role onsite 2-3 days/week in Bethesda, MD, with a broad remit across networking, cloud, identity, and security services.

Excellent communication and leadership are required to drive enterprise-wide decisions. The candidate will guide technical discovery, assess target architectures, and develop migration plans while ensuring operational readiness and risk