Solutions Architect

ICF; Guin (AL); Remote; USD 119,000 - 203,000; Full time

Job summary

ICF is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to translate enterprise architecture strategies into scalable, secure cloud solutions for federal programs. You will craft architecture artifacts, guide decisions across engineering, security, data, and delivery teams, and ensure alignment with enterprise standards.

You will design data/AI lakehouse architectures leveraging Azure and hybrid clouds, collaborating with stakeholders to assess use cases, manage risks, and accelerate modernization while

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field is required.
• Candidate should have AWS or Azure architecture certs and cloud-native data/AI platform experience.
• Demonstrated ability to design secure, scalable cloud architectures across multi-cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Translate enterprise architecture strategies into scalable, secure solution designs.
• Develop ADRs, reference architectures, and interoperability guidance.
• Collaborate with customer-facing teams to evaluate business and technical use cases.
• Identify integration constraints, dependencies, and risks across apps, platforms, and data environments.
• Ensure proposed solutions align with data, identity, networking, security, hosting, and compliance patterns.
• Support modernization roadmaps, migration readiness, and technology adoption planning.
• Partner with Platform Engineering, Security, Compliance, and Data teams for alignment and delivery.
• Provide guidance on cloud architecture, API strategies, integration patterns, and enterprise design.
• Demonstrate citizenship due to federal contract requirements.
• Experience with multi-cloud architectures (Azure, AWS, hybrids) and tradeoff analyses across scale, governance, security, and cost.
• Strong communication skills to present to executives and governance boards.
• Collaborative mindset focused on customer success and mission outcomes.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Azure

Security

Enterprise Architecture

API strategies

Data governance

DevSecOps

IaC

MLOps

Stakeholder leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

AWS Solutions Architect

TOGAF

Azure Solutions Architect Expert

Tools

Azure Databricks

Azure Synapse

Power BI

Terraform

Azure DevOps

GitHub

Job description

This role is contingent upon a contract award. While it is not an immediate opening, we are actively conducting interviews and extending offers in anticipation of the award. At ICF our Digital Modernization Division is an information technology and management consulting organization that delivers integrated, strategic solutions to federal clients. We bring expertise in cloud, cybersecurity, enterprise architecture, data modernization, and digital transformation to support mission-critical government programs.

Join a team accelerating the modernization of a large federal agency's enterprise data and analytics ecosystem. This cloud-based platform provides data storage, analytics, governance, and AI/ML capabilities that enable thousands of users to transform data into actionable insights. As demand continues to grow, the team is focused on migrating legacy workloads, streamlining onboarding and support, expanding platform capabilities, and helping organizations across the enterprise adopt modern data and AI solutions at scale.

The Solutions Architect serves as a senior technical leader responsible for translating enterprise architecture strategies and standards into scalable, secure, and reusable solution designs. Partnering with stakeholders across engineering, security, data, and delivery teams, the role develops architecture artifacts, guides technical decision-making, resolves design challenges, and ensures solutions align with enterprise standards while reducing risk and accelerating modernization efforts.

Job Location: Remote, with the ability to support client meetings and collaboration activities as required.

If you accept this position, you should note that ICF monitors employee work locations, blocks access from foreign locations/foreign IP addresses, and prohibits personal VPN connections.

Translate enterprise architecture principles, standards, and guardrails into reusable solution architectures and implementation patterns.

• Develop and maintain architecture artifacts including solution designs, architecture decision records (ADRs), reference architectures, and interoperability guidance.
• Collaborate with customer-facing teams to evaluate business and technical use cases prior to implementation.
• Identify integration constraints, dependencies, and risks across applications, platforms, and data environments.
• Ensure proposed solutions align with approved data, identity, networking, security, hosting, and compliance patterns.
• Support modernization roadmaps, migration readiness assessments, and technology adoption planning.
• Partner with Platform Engineering, Security, Compliance, and Data teams to ensure technical alignment and successful delivery.
• Provide guidance on cloud architecture, API strategies, integration patterns, and enterprise solution design.
• Citizenship is required due to federal contract requirements.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Enterprise Architecture, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related field; Relevant certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect, Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert, TOGAF, or comparable architecture credentials.
• Demonstrated experience architecting cloud-native data, analytics, and AI platforms within Microsoft Azure and hybrid/multi-cloud environments.
• Experience designing and implementing modern Lakehouse architectures leveraging Databricks, Delta Lake, SQL, Python, and cloud-native data services. Experience with Unity Catalog, data governance frameworks, metadata management, and data sharing patterns is highly desired.
• Experience supporting enterprise data warehouse modernization, cloud migration, and large-scale data platform transformation initiatives.
• Experience designing secure data ingestion, integration, and interoperability solutions using APIs, batch processing, event-driven architectures, real-time streaming, and data virtualization patterns.
• Experience with Azure Data Factory, Databricks Workspaces, Azure Synapse, Power BI, enterprise reporting platforms, and large-scale analytics ecosystems.
• Experience supporting AI/ML platforms and MLOps capabilities utilizing Azure Machine Learning, Databricks ML, MLflow, NLP frameworks, and related machine learning technologies.
• Experience developing enterprise architecture artifacts including solution blueprints, reference architectures, architecture review packages, Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), and Architecture Review Board (ARB) governance materials.
• Experience with DevSecOps practices and Infrastructure as Code (IaC), including Terraform, GitHub, Azure DevOps, CI/CD automation, and deployment pipeline design.
• Experience implementing enterprise data governance, cataloging, lineage, and access control solutions using technologies such as Immuta, Collibra, Unity Catalog, Purview, or comparable platforms.
• Familiarity with domain-driven data architecture concepts including data domains, data products, medallion architecture (raw, refined, published layers), shared platform services, and self-service analytics platforms.
• Experience supporting secure architectures aligned to Zero Trust principles, Single Sign-On (SSO), NIST 800-53 controls, FIPS-compliant security requirements, and Federal cloud security standards.
• Experience with multi-cloud architectures spanning Azure Commercial, Azure Government, AWS GovCloud, and hybrid on-premises environments.
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate architectural tradeoffs across scalability, interoperability, governance, security, performance, cost optimization (FinOps), and operational support considerations.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to present architecture recommendations and technical strategies to executives, governance boards, engineering teams, and customer stakeholders.
• Collaborative mindset with a focus on customer success and mission outcomes.

We combine unmatched expertise with cutting-edge technology to help clients solve their most complex challenges, navigate change, and shape the future. We can only solve the world's toughest challenges by building a workplace that allows everyone to thrive. Together, our employees are empowered to share their expertise and collaborate with others to achieve personal and professional goals. For more information, please read our EEO policy.

Reasonable Accommodations are available, including, but not limited to, for disabled veterans, individuals with disabilities, and individuals with sincerely held religious beliefs, in all phases of the application and employment process. All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodations.

Candidate AI Usage Policy

As part of this commitment, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools to generate or assist with responses during interviews (whether in-person or virtual) is not permitted. This policy is in place to maintain the integrity and authenticity of the interview process.

However, we understand that some candidates may require accommodation that involves the use of AI. Pay Range - There are multiple factors that are considered in determining final pay for a position, including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and competencies that align to the specified role, geographic location, education and certifications as well as contract provisions regarding labor categories that are specific to the position.

The pay range for this position based on full-time employment is:

$119,323.00 - $202,850.00Nationwide Remote Office (US99)