Senior IT Architect / Team Lead

BlueWater Federal Solutions•Germantown, MD

14d•Hybrid

About The Position

BlueWater Federal is looking for a Senior IT Architect / Team Lead to support the DOE EHSS Application, Infrastructure, and Cybersecurity Support (AICS) program. AICS enables secure, reliable, and data-driven operations across the DOE enterprise through application modernization, DevSecOps, Zero Trust implementation, continuous monitoring, and infrastructure sustainment supporting EHSS’s environment, health, safety, security, and classification missions. This is a hybrid role with potential support of multiple DOE sites in the DC metro area.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in information technology or similar field. 6+ years of experience can be substituted for the bachelor’s degree (included as part of the experience requirement, not additional).
7 + years designing and developing new software or major software revisions.
Top-level technical expertise creating architectures and addressing systems-integration compatibility.
Experience with requirements, cost reporting, alternatives analysis, schedules, responsibility assignment, and progress monitoring.
Experience coordinating QA-compliant development and production releases, source control, automated testing, CI, and configuration management.
Must have an active Top Secret clearance with the ability to obtain a Q clearance.

Nice To Haves

TOGAF, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, or Azure Solutions Architect Expert preferred.

Responsibilities

Create high-level architectural specifications and resolve integration, interoperability, platform, security, and compatibility issues.
Gather and elaborate requirements, acceptance criteria, dependencies, assumptions, alternatives, risks, technical approaches, labor estimates, and schedules.
Lead feasibility analyses and present architectural options for software, hardware, cloud, data, APIs, and processes.
Establish schedules, assign technical responsibilities, monitor progress, and coordinate prototype, UAT, and production releases.
Lead source control, automated testing, CI/CD, QA, and change, release, and configuration management.
Ensure solutions conform to DOE/EHSS enterprise architecture, Section 508, Zero Trust, identity/access, cybersecurity, and secure-development requirements.