Technical Architect Lead

Accenture-Federal-Services-2; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 224,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Federal Services is seeking a Technical Architecture Lead to drive end-to-end architecture for a high-stakes federal program. You will align solutions with mission needs, set standards, and guide a cross-functional engineering team to maintain production and COOP environments, while overseeing DevSecOps, migrations, and patching.

Applicants should have 5+ years across the delivery lifecycle, strong documentation skills, and experience with federal C&A processes.

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing, building, refactoring, and operating large scale IT systems.
• 5+ years across the full solution delivery lifecycle and managing engineering teams (≥5 engineers)
• Strong technical documentation and standards management
• Experience with federal Certification & Accreditation (C&A) processes
• Holistic command of technical solutions; decisive problem solving and technology recommendations
• Operational leadership across production/COOP environments: environment readiness, system health, ticketing, code migrations, security patching
• Planning & coordination: capacity planning, PI planning, and release timelines across multiple teams
• DevSecOps enablement and governance
• Succinct, confident communication to clients, leadership, and management
• Oversight competencies to include cloud cost/resource management; container/orchestration best practices; network architecture & migration governance; security incident response; AI/LLM solution governance; infrastructure compliance & drift; release & change management; team enablement & tooling adoption; Expert level solution architecture; advanced AWS cloud native design

Responsibilities

• The Technical Architecture Lead drives the program’s end to end architecture, aligning solutions to mission needs, establishing standards and documentation, and communicating clearly with clients and leadership.
• Manages a cross functional engineering team to keep production and COOP environments healthy, oversees DevSecOps practices, code migrations and security patching, and coordinates capacity planning, PI planning, accreditation audits, and contingency testing.

Skills

Architectural design

Engineering leadership

Documentation

C&A processes

Solution governance

Production/COOP ops

Capacity planning

DevSecOps

Client communication

Technical oversight

Job description

At Accenture Federal Services, nothing matters more than helping the US federal government make the nation stronger and safer and life better for people.Our 13,000+ people are united in a shared purpose to pursue the limitless potential of technology and ingenuity for clients across defense, national security, public safety, civilian, and military health organizations.

Join Accenture Federal Services, a technology company within global Accenture. Recognized as a Glassdoor Top 100 Best Place to Work, we offer a collaborative and caring community where you feel like you belong and are empowered to grow, learn and thrive through hands-on experience, certifications, industry training and more.

Join us to drive positive, lasting change that moves missions and the government forward!

The work:

The Technical Architecture Lead drives the program’s end to end architecture, aligning solutions to mission needs, establishing standards and documentation, and communicating clearly with clients and leadership. This hands on leader will manage a cross functional engineering team to keep production and COOP environments healthy, oversees DevSecOps practices, code migrations and security patching, and coordinates capacity planning, PI planning, accreditation, audits, and contingency testing—ensuring resilient, compliant operations for an onsite, TS cleared federal program.

Here’s what you need

• Proven experience designing, building, refactoring, and operating large scale IT systems
• 5+ years across the full solution delivery lifecycle andmanaging engineering teams (≥5 engineers)
• Strong technical documentation and standards management
• Experience with federal Certification & Accreditation (C&A) processes
• Holistic command of technical solutions; decisive problem solving and technology recommendations
• Operational leadership across production/COOP environments: environment readiness, system health, ticketing, code migrations, security patching
• Planning & coordination: capacity planning, PI planning, and release timelines across multiple teams
• DevSecOps enablement and governance
• Succinct, confident communication to clients, leadership, and management
• Oversight competencies to include one or more of the following: cloud cost/resource management; container/orchestration best practices; network architecture & migration governance; security incident response; AI/LLM solution governance; infrastructure compliance & drift; release & change management; team enablement & tooling adoption; Expert level solution architecture; advanced AWS cloud native design
• Active Top Secret clearance and willingness to work onsite in Washington, DC

Bonus Points if you have

• Experience operating internet facing websites and content management systems
• Red Hat Linux proficiency; database experience with PostgreSQL and SQL Server
• Intermediate understanding of DevSecOps concepts and CI/CD pipeline architecture
• Agile/SAFe program experience (PI Planning, sprint management) -SAFe/Agile certification preferred

As required by local law, Accenture Federal Services provides reasonable ranges of compensation for hired roles based on labor costs in the states of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia . The base pay range for this position in these locations is shown below. Compensation for roles at Accenture Federal Services varies depending on a wide array of factors, including but not limited to office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. Accenture Federal Services offers a wide variety of benefits. You can find more information on benefits here. We accept applications on an on-going basis and there is no fixed deadline to apply.

The pay range for the states of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia is:

$109,500 - $224,200 USD

What We Believe

As a company wholly dedicated to serving the US federal government, we bring together the best talent to help reinvent how federal agencies operate and deliver greater value for their mission and the American people. We have an unwavering commitment to creating a culture in which all our people are respected, feel a sense of belonging, and have equal opportunity. As a business imperative, every person at Accenture Federal Services has the responsibility to create and sustain a culture where everyone feels welcomed and included. This is grounded in our core values and our experience that hiring and developing great people who reflect different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds is key to driving innovation and delivering the results that our clients and the country count on.

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