Chief Solutions Architect

Govcio LLC • UNAVAILABLE, UNAVAILABLE

4d • Remote

About The Position

GovCIO is currently hiring for a Chief Solutions Architect to support a pending contract award. This position will be designated as a remote position.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or 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)

Nice To Haves

• Advanced knowledge and experience in one or more 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
• 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 in working closely with technical leads, engineering teams and architecture stakeholders for technical issues and architecture framework capabilities for use by other development teams
• Ability to translate technically complex features into plain language for leadership
• Experience with AI RAG/LLM implementations and experience implementing and successfully leveraging agentic AI to accelerate software development

Responsibilities

• Provide overall technical leadership and architectural governance for this application maintenance and modernization program, serving as the principal technical authority across all project teams.
• Establish and maintain enterprise architecture standards.
• Guide the modernization strategy from legacy on-premise systems to AWS cloud services.
• Ensure technical decisions align with both immediate operational needs and long-term strategic objectives.
• Collaborate closely with government technical leads.
• Review and approve major architectural decisions.
• Oversee technical risk management.
• Ensure that all solutions comply with federal security requirements and agency enterprise architecture standards while optimizing for performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior