**Strategic Architecture & Modernization Authority:** - **Modernization Strategy:** Define cohesive, end-to-end architecture blueprints that transition legacy workloads to modern, future-ready cloud environments (AWS/Azure/Hybrid). Provide thought leadership to navigate and unify the VA’s often fragmented and entrenched operating environment. - **IT Operations Management (ITOM) Excellence:** Lead the architectural approach for ITOM execution, ensuring seamless visibility and management of the VA’s diverse infrastructure and service components. - **IT Service Management (ITSM) Architecture:** Design and govern enterprise-level ITSM frameworks, specifically utilizing ServiceNow, to streamline service delivery, incident management, and change control. You will ensure these processes drive operational efficiency and align with the VA’s specific operational standards. - **IT Asset Management (ITAM) Governance:** Establish robust strategies for the lifecycle management of hardware and software assets. You will lead the integration of ITAM data with ITOM and security operations to ensure total asset visibility, license compliance, and cost optimization across the VA ecosystem. - **Analysis of Alternatives (AoA):** Lead high-level trade-off analyses to select the optimal mix of COTS, SaaS, and custom software, ensuring decisions align with the client's specific constraints regarding data privacy and transaction volume. - **Data & Health Record Integration:** Lead the development of a transparent data ecosystem that improves data discovery and usability. Specifically, design strategies for the secure integration and management of VA health records, ensuring interoperability and data integrity. - **Technical Governance:** Establish and enforce enterprise architecture guardrails and Authority to Operate (ATO), ensuring all designs comply with NIST 800-53, Zero Trust, Section 508 (Accessibility), and VA-specific security mandates. - **Technical Leadership & Engineering Culture** - **Client Solution Engagement:** Directly engage with clients on solution development, serving as a lead or key stakeholder for solutioning meetings to ensure technical accuracy and alignment with mission objectives. - **Lead the Leaders:** Coach and empower Senior Solution Architects and engineering leads. You are not just a mentor; you are the standard-bearer for engineering discipline and architectural quality. - **Cross-Functional Command:** Direct cross-functional engineering teams through the full lifecycle—from capture and design to delivery, ensuring solutions meet the extreme performance and reliability standards required for national entitlement programs. - **Engineering Engagement:** While operating at a high level, remain technical enough to assist in engineering solutions when needed, diving deep into code or configuration to resolve critical blockers. - **SDLC & Process Execution:** Apply a working knowledge of the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) to oversee and refine development workflows. You will ensure that all phases, from requirements gathering to deployment, align with VA operational standards and best practices. **Business Development & Tactical Growth:** - **Capture & Growth:** Drive both current work and capture new tactical growth opportunities. Partner with Sales and Capture teams to lead technical volume development for major proposals. - **Solution Champion:** Shape the "Win Strategy" by demonstrating a deep understanding of the customer's business needs and pain points (e.g., backlog reduction, system interoperability).

• Act as the design authority for Luma-based customer solutions • Define logical and physical architectures covering applications, data, integrations, identity, environments and operations • Ensure architectural consistency across multiple customer engagements • Shape functional requirements in collaboration with Scientific Architect and Application Scientists • Own non-functional requirements including performance, scalability, security, resilience, observability, accessibility, internationalisation, and maintainability • Design integration approaches using technologies such as Apache NiFi, APIs, batch pipelines, and event-driven patterns • Architect Luma solutions that integrate with customer enterprise systems including ELNs, LIMS, SDMS, PLM, ERP, Instrument data systems • Apply security best practices covering IAM, data protection, tenancy, and compliance • Act as senior technical advisor to customers, including IT leadership and enterprise architects • Provide architectural guidance to other Solution Architects, Technical Leads, Application Scientists, and Delivery Partners

• Work directly with our go-to-market teams to showcase the value of Deel’s White Label Platform to deliver technical wins. • Consult with prospective customers to assess their current payroll practices and identify areas for improvement & optimisation. • Act as the technical voice during sales cycles — owning solution discovery, RFP responses, platform demonstrations & integration workshops. • Collaborate with Product, Engineering and Operations to advocate for prospect needs, accelerate deal velocity, & refine value messaging. • Constructive disruption — challenge the status quo, always looking for opportunities to scale, improve & refine. • Stay up-to-date on White Label legislation, trends, and best practices to continuously improve service offerings & maintain industry expertise. • Support Partnership & Marketing led initiatives.

At Livefront, we help companies design and build world-class digital products that command attention and inspire joy. We’ve helped household names like Target, Samsung, General Mills, and Optum create experiences that have reached millions of people, and startups like HomeSpotter and Acclaim build entirely new businesses that challenge their industries’ status quo. We’re looking for an outstanding Solutions Architect to join our team. This role is an intentional blend of API design, app architecture, code review, DevOps, release management, technical spikes, and client communication. Who you are What you bring to the table At least 7-10 years of software engineering experience, preferably in a consulting environment or as part of an in-house, cross-functional product team. Experience building consumer-facing native mobile and web applications, with a fluent command of the native languages and core frameworks. Demonstrated expertise architecting, building, maintaining, and scaling modern software on various platforms. Ability to design, setup, and maintain DevOps pipelines using various tools and techniques. Ability to design and maintain CI/CD pipelines and manage complex deployments. Scripting expertise (Unix shell, Ruby, Perl, etc.). Experience designing APIs and writing API specifications. Ability to clearly articulate technical requirements to other engineers. An understanding of computer networking (e.g. VPNs, SSH, Wi-Fi) and have experience setting up, maintaining, and troubleshooting computer networks. A keen sense for security: you're able to think around corners and see potential risks. An ability to understand client expectations, the work the team has done and still has to do to meet those expectations, and the ability to motivate the team to successfully deliver. Work samples showcasing performant, neatly organized code with clean, well-implemented user interfaces.A talent for communicating directly with clients, managing expectations, and explaining advanced technical concepts and their implications. Excellent communication skills and a strong ability to present and defend technical and architectural choices persuasively. Renowned problem-solving skills. Above-average discipline and personal organization skills.A demonstrated hunger for personal and professional growth. A self-evident love and care for the craft of software engineering. Comfort with occasional travel to our HQ in MN. Bonus points if you… Have strong illustration chops as it relates to technical diagramming. Speak, write, and/or educate publicly about technical topics. Have publicly released your own personal, self-started products or apps. Enjoy tinkering with emerging languages and platforms such as Go, Rust, Alexa, and/or Unity. What to expect When applying, please include a short note about yourself, a summary of your work experience, and a link to any public profiles you actively maintain (e.g. GitHub, LinkedIn, etc). Our hiring process moves quickly and consists of several stages for candidates who capture our attention with their initial submission, sometimes including but not limited to a short preliminary phone interview, a series of video interviews, and a short take-home exercise which you'll have up to a week to complete. Compensation is $115,000 - $160,000 a year. Additional information We go out of our way to evaluate all employees and job applicants equally based on merit, competence, and qualifications. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply and consider all qualified applicants.