State and Local Sr. Product Enterprise Architect/ Growth Lead (5417)

SMX; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 162,000 - 255,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid leave

Retirement plan

Job summary

SMX is seeking an accomplished technology leader to shape and deliver mission-critical government solutions. You will drive strategic product development, oversee modernization efforts, and guide cross-functional teams from discovery to deployment in regulated environments.

The role requires deep experience with enterprise architectures, cloud platforms, and governance across FedRAMP, HIPAA, CJIS, and IRS Pub 1075, with a strong emphasis on business impact and revenue growth.

Qualifications

• Minimum 15 years in enterprise technology - architecture, engineering, or technical consulting.
• 3+ years contributing to or leading business development and capture activities in government services.
• 3+ years directly leading engineering teams with mentoring and performance management.
• Ability to translate market trends into productized service lines and reusable frameworks.
• Deep modernization experience from legacy to cloud-native (containers, microservices).
• Application architecture across large agency portfolios; API design and integration.
• CI/CD pipeline design and release engineering.
• Strong .NET expertise: C#, ASP.NET Core, .NET Framework 4.8.
• SQL Server / EF Core with performance tuning and zero-downtime migrations.
• Hands-on AWS depth at application layer (ECS/EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, etc).
• AI/ML practical experience (Bedrock, SageMaker); data & analytics fluency.
• Experience in regulated environments (FedRAMP Moderate, HIPAA, CJIS, IRS Pub 1075).
• Excellent communication: architecture docs, executive presentations, proposals.

Responsibilities

• Identify and shape new business opportunities by engaging government stakeholders and mapping pain points to SMX capabilities.
• Translate market trends and client feedback into new solution offerings and go-to-market strategies.
• Contribute to RFP/RFQ responses with technical approaches and solution architectures.
• Drive partner relationships in multi-agency, multi-vendor environments.
• Lead solution architecture from discovery through implementation with governance artifacts.
• Champion modernization assessments and present disposition options with cost/risk estimates.
• Own the technical narrative and reference patterns for consistent delivery.
• Stand up operations for modernized apps: deployment automation, observability, SLOs.
• Serve as trusted technical advisor to senior government executives on strategic impact.
• Lead and grow delivery teams; drive staffing plans and performance conversations.
• Mentor mid-level architects/engineers and elevate the technical bar.

Skills

Enterprise technology

Business development

Engineering leadership

Solution architecture

Cloud/DevOps

Government domain know-how

API design & integration

CI/CD

Strong communication

Tools

AWS (ECS/EKS)

Azure/GCP familiarity

.NET stack (C#, ASP.NET)

SQL Server / EF Core

Terraform/CDK

Job description

• Identify and shape new business opportunities by proactively engaging state and local government stakeholders, mapping agency pain points to SMX capabilities, and building a qualified pipeline aligned to the practice's growth targets.
• Drive strategic product and service development by translating market trends, client feedback, and competitive intelligence into new solution offerings, repeatable accelerators, and go-to-market strategies.
• Contribute to RFP/RFQ responses - write technical approaches, build solution architectures, and develop sales materials.
• Drive new and existing partner relationships, and navigate multi-agency, multi-vendor environments with competing constraints.
• Lead solution architecture from discovery through implementation - producing architecture documents, decision records, and technical governance that meet FedRAMP Moderate, GovRAMP, HIPAA, CJIS, and IRS Pub 1075 requirements.
• Lead modernization assessments across agency application portfolios, delivering disposition recommendations (rehost / replatform / refactor / replace / retire) with effort, cost, and risk attached to each.
• Own the technical narrative through delivery - reference patterns and guardrails that keep implementation teams consistent.
• Stand up and improve the operational side of modernized applications: deployment automation, observability, incident response patterns, and the SLOs that matter to the mission.
• Serve as trusted technical advisor to senior government executives; translate technical decisions into business impact.
• Lead and grow delivery teams - set technical direction, run design and code reviews, own staffing plans and skills-gap decisions, and participate in hiring and performance conversations.
• Mentor mid-level architects and engineers, and raise the technical bar across the practice.

Required Skills/Experience:

• Minimum 15 years in enterprise technology - architecture, engineering, or technical consulting.
• 3+ years contributing to or leading business development and capture activities - pipeline development, client relationship management, win-theme development, and strategic pricing/teaming decisions in government professional services.
• 3+ years directly leading engineering teams, including technical direction, mentoring, hiring, and performance management.
• Demonstrated ability to identify market opportunities and shape solution offerings - translating emerging technology trends (AI/ML, data modernization, cloud) into productized service lines or reusable frameworks that drive revenue growth.
• Application modernization depth - legacy to cloud-native (containerization, microservices, API-first), with ownership of at least two substantial modernization efforts.
• Application architecture, decomposition, and refactoring strategy across large agency portfolios.
• API design, API management, and integration architecture across agency systems.
• CI/CD pipeline design and release engineering.
• Deep expertise across the .NET ecosystem: C#, ASP.NET Core, and .NET Framework 4.8 - with demonstrated experience moving Framework applications forward incrementally rather than betting on a full rewrite.
• Strong SQL Server (2019 or later) and Entity Framework / EF Core experience, including query performance tuning and zero-downtime migration strategy.
• Hands-on AWS depth at the application layer: ECS/EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, SQS/SNS/EventBridge, IAM, CloudWatch, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or CDK).
• AI/ML practical experience (Bedrock, SageMaker, or equivalent; generative AI, RAG architectures).
• Data & analytics fluency - data lakes, analytics platforms, BI tooling.
• Demonstrated experience in regulated environments (FedRAMP Moderate, HIPAA, CJIS, IRS Pub 1075).
• Strong communication - architecture documentation, executive presentations, and proposal writing.

Desired Skills/Experience:

• AWS Solutions Architect - Professional, or equivalent certification with other cloud service providers.
• State and local government experience - procurement cycles, compliance, public-sector IT realities, state agencies such as Health and Human Services, Revenue, Transportation, or Labor and Workforce Development.
• Medicaid or public benefits program technology experience.
• Oracle database environments and migration strategies.
• Awareness of Appian, ServiceNow, or low-code/BPM platforms in government sufficient to drive solutions that incorporate them.
• Awareness of enterprise data platforms and BI tooling (e.g., Snowflake, Informatica, Tableau) sufficient to drive solutions that incorporate them.

# LI-SA1

The SMX salary determination process takes into account a number of factors, including but not limited to, geographic location, Federal Government contract labor categories, relevant prior work experience, specific skills, education and certifications. At SMX, one of our Core Values is to Invest in Our People so we offer a competitive mix of compensation, learning & development opportunities, and benefits. Some key components of our robust benefits include health insurance, paid leave, and retirement.

The proposed salary for this position is:: $161,600 USD - $254,500 USD

At SMX®, we are a team of technical and domain experts dedicated to enabling your mission. From priority national security initiatives for the DoD to highly assured and compliant solutions for healthcare, we understand that digital transformation is key to your future success.

We share your vision for the future and strive to accelerate your impact on the world. We bring both cutting edge technology and an expansive view of what’s possible to every engagement. Our delivery model and unique approaches harness our deep technical and domain knowledge, providing forward-looking insights and practical solutions to power secure mission acceleration.

SMX is an Equal Opportunity employer including disabilities and veterans.

Selected applicant may be subject to a background investigation and/or education verification.

SMX does not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization or immigration related support for this position (i.e. H1B, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, F-1 CPT, J-1, TN, E-2, E-3, L-1 and O-1, or any EADs or other forms of work authorization that require immigration support from an employer).