Quick Summary
Overview
GovCIO is actively seeking a Chief Solutions Architect to support an upcoming contract award. This is a remote position.
Responsibilities
The Chief Solution Architect will provide comprehensive technical leadership and architectural governance for an application maintenance and modernization program. This role serves as the principal technical authority across all project teams, establishing and maintaining enterprise architecture standards. Key responsibilities include guiding the modernization strategy from legacy on-premise systems to AWS cloud services, ensuring technical decisions align with operational needs and long-term strategic objectives. The Chief Architect will collaborate with government technical leads, review and approve major architectural decisions, oversee technical risk management, and ensure solutions comply with federal security requirements and agency enterprise architecture standards, while optimizing for performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.
Qualifications
Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related technical field
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional certification
- Minimum 8 years' experience in one or more architecture domains (e.g., business architecture, solutions architecture, application architecture)
Desired
- Advanced knowledge and experience in current programming languages (e.g., Java, JavaScript (including AngularJS), Python, Rust, Go, or PHP)
- Experience defining the architecture of cloud-deployed applications (AWS preferred)
- Expertise in service-oriented architecture, web services, and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)
- Experience defining and driving SecDevOps best practices within large teams, including AI-assisted code development
- Experience establishing legacy modernization and migration technical roadmaps for large-scale applications
- Experience building applications using service-oriented, microservice, and/or API-based architectures at an enterprise scale
- Experience with event-driven applications using queues, service bus, and other related patterns
- Experience working closely with technical leads, engineering teams, and architecture stakeholders for technical issues and architecture framework capabilities
- Ability to translate technically complex features into plain language for leadership
- Experience with AI RAG/LLM implementations and successfully leveraging agentic AI to accelerate software development
Posted Salary Range
USD $125,000.00 - USD $199,260.00 /Yr.