Senior Solutions Architect

3 weeks ago
Full-time
Lead
Software Development
540

540

540 is a government-trusted tech consulting firm that breaks barriers to innovation and delivers impactful solutions like start-ups.

Internet Software & Services
51-250
Founded 2013

Description

  • Define scalable solution architectures for a federal health data platform across cloud, on-premises, and government-hosted environments.
  • Translate mission, business, data, security, and operational needs into technical designs and implementation strategies.
  • Develop current-state and target-state architectures to guide incremental modernization of legacy systems.
  • Design integration approaches for APIs, pipelines, shared services, and reusable data products across disparate systems.
  • Establish reference architectures, technical standards, architectural guardrails, and reusable patterns.
  • Evaluate architecture options based on security, scalability, performance, reliability, maintainability, cost, and risk.
  • Guide the use of Databricks and cloud services across AWS, Azure, Oracle Cloud, and hybrid infrastructure.
  • Lead technical discovery and architecture discussions with engineers, leaders, customers, and mission stakeholders.
  • Produce and maintain architecture diagrams, interface definitions, design documentation, decision records, and roadmaps.
  • Partner with engineering teams to review designs, resolve technical issues, and keep implementations aligned with platform architecture.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in solutions architecture, data architecture, software architecture, platform engineering, data engineering, or a related field.
  • Experience designing complex enterprise data platforms or distributed solutions across multiple systems and organizational boundaries.
  • Strong understanding of modern data platform concepts, including ingestion, integration, transformation, storage, access, APIs, and data products.
  • Experience designing solutions for cloud or hybrid-cloud environments.
  • Experience integrating modern platforms with legacy systems and developing incremental modernization strategies.
  • Strong understanding of API design, system integration patterns, and data exchange approaches.
  • Working knowledge of data modeling, metadata, lineage, data quality, and data governance principles.
  • Ability to incorporate security, availability, performance, scalability, reliability, maintainability, and operational support requirements into technical designs.
  • Experience evaluating technology options and documenting architecture artifacts such as diagrams, reference architectures, interface designs, roadmaps, and decision records.
  • Experience guiding engineering teams through implementation of complex technical designs.
  • Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices, development lifecycles, and Git-based workflows.
  • Strong client-facing communication and facilitation skills.
  • Ability to independently navigate ambiguity and drive cross-cutting technical decisions to resolution.
  • Bachelor’s degree.
  • U.S. citizenship and an active DoW Secret clearance or higher.
  • Remote within the continental United States, with periodic travel required.
  • Experience architecting solutions using Databricks, Apache Spark, or similar modern data platforms.
  • Experience architecting solutions on AWS, with familiarity with Microsoft Azure or Oracle Cloud.
  • Experience designing hybrid solutions spanning public cloud, on-premises infrastructure, and government data centers.
  • Experience supporting federal health or other regulated and sensitive data environments.
  • Experience with Palantir Foundry, Advana, or similar DoW data environments.
  • Experience designing AI/ML-enabled components and evaluating build-versus-buy and cost tradeoffs.

Benefits

  • Flexible PTO plus all federal holidays off.
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance plans.
  • Flexible Spending Account (FSA).
  • 401(k) with employer match.
  • Company-sponsored life insurance, short-term disability, and long-term disability.
  • Professional development support, including training, certifications, and conferences.
  • Paid cloud developer accounts.
  • Referral bonuses.
  • HQ office perks, including parking or metro reimbursement, nitro coffee, and lunches.
  • Annual social events and access to Washington Capitals and Nationals tickets.

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