PLEASE NOTE: Bitovi has been engaged by Very Big Things to lead initial and technical interviews for this role. While Bitovi will conduct the early rounds, the final interview and hiring decision will be made by Very Big Things directly. JOIN THE VERY BIG THINGS TEAM! Very Big Things is seeking an exceptional Lead AI Engineer to architect and build an internal workflow automation platform that will become a core customer offering. You'll work directly with the CEO and leadership team, operating more like a technical founder than a traditional employee. This is a rare opportunity for someone who thrives on autonomy, moves fast, and isn't afraid to break things in pursuit of progress — you'll build the platform foundation, then deploy into enterprise customer environments to rapidly implement solutions enhanced with AI. WHY THIS ROLE MATTERS This role demands strong ownership. You'll build the platform foundation, then deploy into customer organizations to understand their workflows and rapidly implement enterprise-grade solutions enhanced with AI. If you're someone who sees problems and solves them without waiting to be told, this role is for you. HOW YOU'LL CONTRIBUTE Foundation Phase: - Design and build the core architecture for an enterprise workflow automation platform - Make critical technical decisions about stack, architecture patterns, and implementation independently - Create robust APIs, integrations, and workflow engines adaptable to diverse enterprise needs Deployment Phase (Primary Focus): - Deploy virtually or on-site into customer organizations across the US - Conduct discovery sessions to understand workflows and requirements - Rapidly prototype and build custom solutions tailored to each enterprise - Iteratively integrate AI capabilities to enhance automation and drive value - Act as the technical face of the company during customer engagements Throughout: - Work autonomously with minimal oversight from CEO and leadership - Make architectural decisions and push back constructively when needed - Move fast, ship quickly, and iterate — success comes through iteration, not upfront planning WHO YOU ARE We are looking for a candidate with the following attributes: - Builder mentality — you see problems and solve them without waiting to be told - Thrives on autonomy with minimal oversight - As strong with people as you are with code — clear communicator who navigates ambiguity - Proven leadership experience guiding senior engineers and establishing patterns - Curious, proactive learner who takes ownership - Comfortable being the technical face of the company in client engagements Required experience: - 7+ years building production software across front-end and back-end, with a history of shipping complex systems - 2+ years building with Generative AI in real products - Expert with TypeScript/JavaScript and modern stacks (e.g., Next.js/React, Node/Nest/Express) - Comfortable across data layers (Postgres/SQL, caches, vector stores) - LLM-assisted development expertise — materially increased velocity and quality using tools like Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf, or Copilot, with the ability to design prompts, break down problems, enforce tests, and review AI output safely - Solid grasp of security and compliance (authN/Z, RBAC/ABAC, audit, data residency, secrets, PII handling) - Familiarity with cloud + DevOps (Vercel/AWS/GCP/Azure), CI/CD, IaC (Terraform/Pulumi), and monitoring/observability - Strong client-facing communication and leadership skills Other skills we value: - Domain experience in retail, hospitality, logistics, or healthcare/life sciences - Experience setting expectations and leading teams through technical challenges PERKS & BENEFITS - Competitive compensation with performance upside - Comprehensive benefits - Remote work - PTO - Final package depends on experience and location HOW TO APPLY: Please share a resume and LinkedIn profile and answer the additional questions. Yes, we read through all the answers! *Please note that we are not interested in working with recruiters. All job offers are contingent on passing a detailed background check.

cFocus Software seeks a Security Architect to join our program supporting Housing and Urban Development (HUD). This position is remote. This position requires a Public Trust clearance. Qualifications: - Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field. - 7+ years of experience in cybersecurity architecture, engineering, or enterprise security design. - Strong experience with federal security frameworks (NIST, FISMA, FedRAMP, RMF). - Experience designing cloud security architectures (AWS, Azure, or similar). Duties: - Design, develop, and maintain enterprise and cloud security architectures supporting SOC operations. - Architect security solutions across cloud (AWS GovCloud), on-prem, and hybrid environments. - Lead security architecture validation, ensuring alignment with NIST SP 800-53, NIST RMF, FISMA, OMB, and CISA directives. - Conduct architecture reviews, system design assessments, and security engineering evaluations. - Support Zero Trust architecture design, implementation, and maturity assessments. - Define and implement security controls, segmentation strategies, and defense-in-depth architectures. - Evaluate and integrate security technologies including SIEM, SOAR, EDR, IDS/IPS, DLP, IAM, and cloud-native security tools. - Perform system fit/gap analysis of security architecture and recommend improvements or redesigns. - Support secure configuration and deployment aligned with OEM best practices and federal standards. - Architect solutions for continuous monitoring, threat detection, and automated response capabilities. - Develop and maintain architecture documentation, diagrams, and technical standards. - Collaborate with SOC, engineering, compliance, and infrastructure teams to ensure secure system integration. - Support vulnerability management, threat modeling, and risk mitigation strategies. - Ensure secure data architecture including encryption, data protection, and data loss prevention. - Provide guidance on secure system lifecycle (design, development, deployment, operations). - Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend enhancements to improve cybersecurity posture.

Think of TEKsystems Global Services (TGS) as the growth solution for enterprises today. We unleash growth through technology, strategy, design, execution and operations with a customer-first mindset for bold business leaders. We deliver cloud, data and customer experience solutions. Our partnerships with leading cloud, design and business intelligence platforms fuel our expertise. We value deep relationships, dedication to serving others and inclusion. We drive positive outcomes for our people and our business, and we stay true to our commitments and act in harmony with our words. We exist to create significant opportunity for people to achieve fulfillment through career success. Ready to join us? Here’s what the opportunity supported through our TGS Talent Acquisition Team requires: The Sr Amazon Connect Practice Architect is a leadership role responsible for strategic client engagement, AWS alliance alignment, and offering development for the Amazon Connect strategic team. This role guides and shapes end-to-end contact center modernization programs (typically $2-5M+) by defining the target architecture, delivery approach, and value narrative, while remaining hands-on enough to unblock teams and deliver critical technical outcomes. The Practice Architect partners across Sales, Solutioning, Delivery, and Engineering to ensure offerings and client strategies are technically sound, repeatable, and scalable across industries. Engagements are primarily North America focused and include executive-level advisory, solutioning, and architecture leadership across customer programs. The Practice Architect may be customer-facing on-site as needed and is expected to lead cross-functional teams through strategy, design, build, and operational readiness. This role may require up to 10% travel. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in AWS and Amazon Connect (contact flows, routing, integrations, and agent experience), along with modern cloud-native delivery (microservices, serverless, CI/CD, and DevOps). They will work with the AWS alliance and internal stakeholders to set goals for offering development, create demonstrable reference architectures, and collaborate with cross-functional agentic architecture teams to enable Agent Assist and contact-flow automation using tools such as Amazon Q in Connect and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore/MCP. Primary responsibilities: Strategic Engagement Leadership: Lead strategic client engagements by shaping contact center modernization strategy, architecture, and roadmap. Define success metrics, operating model, and governance that enable delivery teams to execute consistently across customers. Solution Architecture & Hands-On Execution: Own the technical architecture for complex Amazon Connect programs and guide implementation teams. Jump in as needed to deliver critical components (e.g., contact flows/modules, integration patterns, security/IAM, IaC pipelines) and ensure solutions meet functional, non-functional, and compliance requirements. Drive a shared architectural vision and enforce standards across teams. Alliance, Offering Development & Enablement: Partner with the AWS alliance, Sales, and Solutioning to define offering strategy, roadmaps, and GTM goals. Produce repeatable architectures, accelerators, and presales assets (demos, reference implementations, and field guides) that enable consistent sales motions and delivery outcomes. Agentic Architecture & Integrations: Collaborate with agentic architecture teams to design and implement tool-based automation that supports contact flows and Agent Assist (e.g., MCP tools, Bedrock AgentCore gateways/runtimes). Guide integrations to external enterprise systems such as CRMs (e.g., Salesforce/Dynamics), collaboration platforms (e.g., Teams/Slack), and ERPs (e.g., SAP/Oracle) using secure, scalable API and event-driven patterns. Additional Responsibilities as needed will include but not be limited to: Pre-Sales Support: Support Solution Architects and Solution Executives with technical opinions, methodology recommendations, work estimates, and solution support. Practice Support: Provide input, expertise, and hands-on contribution to the design and continuous improvement of Amazon Connect and agentic AI offerings, accelerators, and enablement artifacts. Research competing offerings and AWS roadmap direction to keep the practice current and differentiated. Create and maintain practice assets that document reference architectures, integration patterns, security standards, and repeatable delivery playbooks. Human Resources: Assist with interviewing, hiring, and on-boarding of project team members. Strategic Engagement & Delivery Governance Responsibilities Partner with Delivery, Sales, and the AWS alliance to ensure new opportunities are scoped correctly, risks are assessed early, and the engagement approach aligns to the portfolio operating model. Facilitate internal alignment and assemble cross-functional solution teams (Connect, integrations, security, data/AI) for strategic engagements and pursuits. Provide architecture leadership and solution consulting through discovery, solutioning, and transition, ensuring the implementation plan is actionable and repeatable. Participate in executive briefings, project kickoffs, architectural reviews, and steering/status forums to guide decisions and maintain stakeholder alignment. Ensure the prescribed methodology, architecture standards, and security/compliance controls are followed from opportunity assessment through go-live and operational handoff. Develop collaborative relationships with Delivery and Engineering teams to remove blockers, accelerate execution, and ensure high-quality outcomes. Help define program performance metrics aligned to KPIs/OKRs and internal offering success measures (adoption, reuse, time-to-value, ROI). Identify opportunities for service improvement through standardization, automation, agentic enablement, and operational optimization. Pre-Sales Support • Work with Solution Architects and Solution Executives, when needed, to develop scope, prepare solutioning guidelines for Amazon Connect offering development. • Work with front-office, legal, and risk and security on GRC for the offerings developed. • As needed, understand client business and technical requirements and communicate internally with Solution Architects and Solution Executives to ensure solution matches client needs • As needed, support Solution Architects and Solution Executives in process to calculate risk premium, prepare and review estimates, and prepare project pricing guidelines. Practice Support • Collect and provide input into the design, development and improvement of service offerings and internal DevOps and Cloud accelerator programs • Implement service offering changes in process and procedures • Maintain and organize Enterprise Modernization portfolio intellectual property • Work with Managers and Director to improve and implement changes to project delivery processes, methodology, and back office procedures • Stay informed with regards to developments in the application management industry and maintain current knowledge of the generally accepted best practices in service transition and management Job Type & LocationThis is a Permanent position based out of Austin, TX. Pay and BenefitsThe pay range for this position is $156000.00 - $234000.00/yr. We reserve the right to pay above or below the posted wage based on factors unrelated to sex, race, or any other protected classification. Additional earnings may be available through incentive programs like annual bonuses, profit sharing, etc. Our full-time, internal employment benefits include the following: • Medical, Dental, and Vision • Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital • 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available • Life Insurance (Voluntary Life and AD&D for employee and dependents) • Short and Long-Term Disability • Health Spending Account (HSA) • Transportation Benefits • Employee Assistance Program • Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave) Workplace TypeThis is a fully remote position. Application DeadlineThis position is anticipated to close on Apr 16, 2026. h4>About TEKsystems: We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company. The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law. About TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services We’re a leading provider of business and technology services. We accelerate business transformation for our customers. Our expertise in strategy, design, execution and operations unlocks business value through a range of solutions. We’re a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 customers, including 80% of the Fortune 500 across North America, Europe and Asia, who partner with us for our scale, full-stack capabilities and speed. We’re strategic thinkers, hands-on collaborators, helping customers capitalize on change and master the momentum of technology. We’re building tomorrow by delivering business outcomes and making positive impacts in our global communities. TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services are Allegis Group companies. Learn more at TEKsystems.com. The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

• Act as the lead technical consultant on product development and implementations during the analysis, design, development, and delivery phases of the solution. • Strong ability to convey complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical. • Ensure compliance with relevant standards and identify potential technical risks and devise strategies to mitigate them, ensuring the reliability and stability of software solutions. • Stay abreast of emerging technologies and industry trends, recommending and implementing improvements to enhance system performance and business value.