Senior Architect

SimpliGov LLC • Baltimore, MD

2d • $175,000 • Remote

About The Position

We are hiring an architect to raise the design floor across engineering through trusted, practical technical direction. You’ll shape a govtech platform spanning microservices, front-end replatforming, AI products, and AI-native delivery—making the system coherent, safe, and fast to change within a FedRAMP-conscious environment.

We run an AI-native development lifecycle where agents help plan, build, validate, and release, while humans own judgment and direction. Our standards are simple: own and understand everything you ship, and surface uncertainty early.

Requirements

• 8+ years of engineering experience, including several years driving architecture across multiple teams in SaaS or platform environments
• A track record of designs that shipped and held up in production; we will ask what broke and what you learned
• Real experience decomposing a monolith into services in production, with the scars to show for it
• Fluency with AI-era architecture: agentic systems, LLM integration patterns, and designing for codebases partially produced by agents
• Exceptional written and verbal clarity; you make complex systems legible

Nice To Haves

• Experience in regulated environments (FedRAMP, StateRAMP, HIPAA, or similar) is a strong plus
• Comprehension before construction: you restate requirements in your own words and confirm them before you design
• Visible uncertainty: you surface confusion early and loudly; silent guessing is the one behavior we cannot work with
• Consumer empathy: the constraints of dependent teams are design inputs, not obstacles
• Simplicity bias: the best design is the one the team can carry without you
• Comfortable being wrong in public and fast to update

Responsibilities

• Own cross-cutting technical direction: service boundaries, contracts, data architecture, and platform evolution across our decomposition and replatforming programs
• Design in the open: architecture decision records, design reviews inside our Plan-and-Review cadence, explicit trade-offs, and written reasoning others can challenge
• Treat dependent teams as first-class customers: gather their requirements before designing, validate against real consumers before building, and close the loop when things change
• Raise the floor: coach tech leads through their own designs; success is more people who can architect, not more decisions routed through you
• Keep designs as simple as the problem allows; we treat unneeded complexity as a defect, not a signal of sophistication
• Partner with AI Operations and DevOps so architecture is enforced by the delivery system (contracts, validation, gates) rather than by memo
• Bring architectural judgment to how AI agents design and modify systems, so machine-produced code lands inside human-owned structure

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance plans, with significant employer contributions for employees AND dependents (contributions based on base-level plan; buyup plans available at additional costs)
• Company-sponsored life/disabilities insurances
• 11 Paid holidays
• Flexible time off
• 401k plan with 4% employer match
• Monthly stipends for wellness and home office expenses

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed