Systems Architect / Technical Lead
About The Position
Unissant, Inc. delivers innovative capabilities to the agencies that keep our nation healthy and safe. We apply our domain expertise, data acumen, and technology know-how to achieve breakthrough results for our clients. Working collaboratively, we advance missions and careers through a focus on honesty, integrity, and dependability. We continuously look for talent excited to join that effort. To learn more about our exciting organization, please visit www.unissant.com. We are seeking a System Architect / Technical Lead to join our team and support our client. The ideal candidate is an experienced hands-on technical leader who provides system architecture, technical direction, and delivery oversight for a complex application program. This individual will guide cross-functional teams through the full software development life cycle and ensure high-quality, secure, scalable technical solutions.
Requirements
- Minimum 10 years of experience providing technical leadership to a delivery team.
- Minimum 8 years of experience in systems integration, application development, and package implementation.
- Minimum 3 years of experience supporting IT projects of similar size, complexity, and technology environment.
- Demonstrated experience with cloud computing and cloud-based technologies.
- Solid understanding of software engineering disciplines, including requirements, design, implementation, testing, integration, deployment, and operations and maintenance.
- Experience gathering and documenting requirements with business and technical stakeholders.
- Ability to rapidly learn and apply new technologies, strong technical problem-solving, estimation, communication, and mentoring skills.
- Experience leading technical quality reviews and coordinating cross-functional delivery activities.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance is required.
Nice To Haves
- Master's degree in a relevant field preferred.
- Cloud, DevSecOps, agile, architecture, or relevant technical certification is preferred.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical direction to application developers, database developers, testers, business analysts, and other delivery personnel.
- Partner with system owners, business owners, technical teams, and functional teams to design, implement, test, validate, and deploy solutions.
- Define and implement system architecture using sound engineering practices, object-oriented analysis and design techniques, reusable patterns, and modern cloud-based technologies.
- Lead and contribute to coding, unit testing, technical troubleshooting, system integration, operations and maintenance, and enhancement activities.
- Review and approve requirements analysis, technical designs, development work products, and testing artifacts during each release cycle.
- Oversee implementation and deployment activities; ensure the quality, reliability, security, and maintainability of technical deliveries.
- Assess and develop level-of-effort estimates for change requests, defects, enhancements, and other technical tasks.
- Support release planning, scheduling, task assignments, technical risk management, and incident/lessons-learned activities.
- Assess emerging technologies and provide technical recommendations for future initiatives, upgrades, and modernization.
- Mentor junior personnel and promote adoption of AI-assisted development, DevSecOps, automation, and cloud-native engineering practices.
- Model business processes and integrate application capabilities with existing enterprise systems.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
