Guidehouse, a "next-generation consultancy" and a portfolio company of Veritas Capital, provides management, risk consulting, and technology services to help cl
Systems Architect
Location
Maryland + 1 moreAll locations: Maryland | Virginia
Posted
6 days ago
Salary
$130K - $216K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Systems Architect
Guidehouse
• Lead the technical architecture, modernization, and continuous improvement of the Grants.gov platform and related solutions. • Collaborate with federal stakeholders, product teams, engineers, security specialists, and operations personnel to design scalable, secure, and highly available solutions. • Provide architectural leadership for system enhancements, cloud-based services, integrations, security compliance, and operational excellence. • Lead the development and maintenance of enterprise, solution, application, integration, and platform architectures. • Design scalable, highly available, secure, and resilient application and infrastructure solutions. • Define architecture roadmaps, modernization strategies, and technical recommendations. • Collaborate with development, operations, security, and cloud teams to ensure architectural alignment. • Evaluate and recommend emerging technologies and operational improvements. • Provide technical oversight for system-to-system integrations, APIs, and application workflows. • Support architecture governance processes and compliance with federal architecture standards. • Participate in incident investigations, capacity planning, and technology risk assessments. • Support cybersecurity and privacy initiatives, including Authority to Operate (ATO) activities. • Present technical concepts and architecture recommendations to stakeholders. • Develop architecture artifacts, technical management plans, and executive-ready presentations.
Job Requirements
- Bachelor's degree.
- Additional Four(4) years of exp needed in lieu of degree.
- Eight(8) to Ten(10)+ years of experience designing, developing, and supporting enterprise-scale application architectures.
- Experience architecting cloud-hosted solutions, preferably within AWS environments.
- Experience with enterprise application integration, APIs, web services, and service-oriented or microservices architectures.
- Experience designing highly available, secure, and scalable systems supporting public-facing applications.
- Knowledge of application lifecycle management, DevSecOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, configuration management, and release management.
- Experience supporting federal IT systems and compliance frameworks.
- Strong understanding of:
- Application architecture and design patterns
- Database architecture and performance optimization
- Security architecture and risk management
- Disaster recovery and business continuity planning
- Performance and capacity management
- Identity and access management
- Experience developing technical documentation, architecture diagrams, operational procedures, and executive briefings.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Must be able to OBTAIN and MAINTAIN a Federal or DoD "PUBLIC TRUST"; candidates must obtain approved adjudication of their PUBLIC TRUST prior to onboarding with Guidehouse. Candidates with an ACTIVE PUBLIC TRUST or SUITABILITY are preferred.
Benefits
- Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
- Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays
- Parental Leave
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- Group Term Life and Travel Assistance
- Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance
- Health Savings Account, Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Transit and Parking Commuter Benefits
- Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
- Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development, Certifications & Learning Opportunities
- Employee Referral Program
- Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach
- Care.com annual membership
- Employee Assistance Program
- Supplemental Benefits via Corestream (Critical Care, Hospital Indemnity, Accident Insurance, Legal Assistance and ID theft protection, etc.)
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