Senior Technical Architect

ICF•Baton Rouge, LA

2d•$118,730 - $201,840•Remote

About The Position

Please note: This role is contingent upon contract award. While it is not an immediate opening, we are actively conducting interviews and extending offers in anticipation of the award. The Work: We are looking for a Senior Architect who is customer-focused and enthusiastic about helping a state government agency modernize and transform its technology systems and applications in support of their disaster recovery grants management mission. If you have a passion for tapping into the collective wisdom of developers to create team synergy, then we want to talk with you. This position requires a high level of technical expertise, combined with excellent planning, coordination, communication skills, and the ability to work with teams. You will provide leadership over multiple projects in developing new system requirements and researching, evaluating, and integrating solutions within the customer IT ecosystem. You understand the importance of security and believe risk management should be tackled early and not as an afterthought. You have been through the trenches in helping teams obtain authority to operate (ATO) and can have intelligent discussions around NIST recommendations and security controls. You are invested in the use of automation and creating an environment that fosters DevSecOps approaches. You articulate the connection from technical services to business capabilities and help client organizations navigate the tension between evolving traditional IT processes and modern approaches. You also tailor communications for a variety of audiences and bring clarity to the details around complex problems. Most importantly, you understand that leading is not about being a hero, it’s about developing capabilities in your team to deliver the right solutions for our customers. Job Location: This position can be remote, and will require occasional travel to the Baton Rouge, LA area. If you accept this position, you should note that ICF does monitor employee work locations blocks access from foreign locations/foreign IP addresses and also prohibits personal VPN connections.

Requirements

US Citizenship required due to contract requirements
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or other related scientific or technical disciplines
10+ years of experience in leading and architecting enterprise software systems
10+ years of experience with building web-based enterprise systems
10 + years of experience with relevant programming languages and platforms, such as Java, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Appian Expression Language, SAIL, SQL
7+ years of application architecture or product development experience

Nice To Haves

Experience with modern software design leading to highly testable systems
Experience designing and implementing integrations between the Appian platform and external systems, applications, other cloud-based platforms, and external databases using RESTful APIs
Experience with software development working in Agile and Scaled Agile teams
Experience and application of practices such as microservices architecture, serverless architecture, and automated testing
Knowledge of web services, related standards, distributed architectures design patterns, and best practices
3+ years of experience in building and deploying applications on the Appian Platform.

Responsibilities

Translate business needs into application solution architecture requirements, making frequent use of diagrams to help communicate with broad audiences
Inform the balance of security, tech debt, feature, and defect work
Estimate the budgetary impact of solution architecture alternatives
Evolve the team’s capabilities toward high-performing DevSecOps practices within the Agile framework
Work with teams to help support and drive future development of the platform while coordinating and prioritizing the needs of existing programs and outcomes
Evaluate legacy and current applications, architecture, database design, etc. to make recommendations on improvements in design, performance, and quality
Ensure solutions are developed and packaged in an easily consumable and repeatable way for customers and internal technical teams
Own the technical roadmap and interface with application Project Managers to ensure achievability
Provide operations and monitoring support for legacy systems
Collaborate with IT Security to ensure compliance with regulatory policies
Perform proofs-of-concept as needed to determine technology
Lead and mentor a team of software developers and engineers