Technical Architect

Agile Six Applications

6h•Remote

About The Position

Agile Six is seeking a Technical Architect to join a cross-functional team supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) on the My HealtheVet (MHV) project. This role focuses on enhancing the digital experience for Veterans by creating a unified platform for managing their healthcare, community care, and disability benefits. The Technical Architect will be responsible for the evolution and maintenance of the application's architecture, utilizing technologies such as Ruby on Rails, Git, React, React Native, JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, GraphQL, FHIR, and DevSecOps practices. The position requires balancing modern architectural patterns with legacy system integration, modularity, scalability, and accessibility, with a primary focus on improving the Veteran's digital healthcare experience. Strong interpersonal, leadership, and collaboration skills are essential for maintaining effective delivery within large-scale, agile teams and ensuring technical solutions align with user needs, accessibility, and the VA's mission. This is a Key Personnel role, subject to government review and approval.

Requirements

7+ years of experience as a software engineer
5+ years as a software architect, tech lead, or other senior engineering leader.
Demonstrated experience leading the maintenance and enhancement of complex web and mobile applications across the entire technology stack, using modern languages and frameworks such as Ruby on Rails, Git, Typescript, JavaScript frameworks (React, React Native), component-based design systems, REST and GraphQL APIs, and scalable architecture patterns
Demonstrated experience leveraging and supporting the adoption of AI tools and services such as GitHub Copilot or similar, to improve code quality, accelerate development, and enhance team practices, with a strong willingness to integrate AI thoughtfully to improve outcomes.
Experience with DevOps processes and tools
Demonstrated experience with Agile teams, fostering an Agile mindset, facilitating collaboration, and guiding teams in applying Agile principles to deliver value iteratively
Experience fostering team practices that prioritize writing automated tests to validate software and build behavior using testing frameworks such as React Testing Library and RSpec
Expert understanding of architectural patterns, software development principles, and system design, with the ability to apply and guide their use across front-end and back-end systems
Experience working in many different areas of the software stack and solving a variety of engineering problems
Ability to work independently on high complexity tasks, and to collaborate as it makes sense for the problem and the work
Experience in an open-source, collaborative development environment
Has lived and worked in the United States for 3 out of the last 5 years

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with the vets-gov and vets-api codebases, and with the US Web Design System
Experience building and/or training AI services, such as preparing data for utilization in AI services, creating vector databases, building Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines, or training models.
Experience working in or with government agencies, especially the VA

Responsibilities

Lead and contribute as part of a cross-functional Agile team to design, develop, and maintain web and mobile applications using React, React Native, TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js, Ruby on Rails, Git, and related technologies, applying modern software architecture principles and best practices
Lead software architecture and design to support MHV project needs, leveraging best practices including modularity, scalability, accessibility, and seamless EHR integration
Align engineering best practices across multiple delivery teams (which may include establishing an Engineering Community of Practice within the contract, and/or ensuring consistent engineering standards are met across the portfolio)
Establish strong relationship with your VA counterparts
Leverage, evangelize, and support the adoption of AI-powered coding tools such as GitHub Copilot, as well as other enabling technologies such as MCP servers and edge computing to rapidly implement features, identify and fix bugs, validate ideas, and enhance team practices
Leverage emerging technologies and practices around DevOps, cloud services, automation tools, etc. where appropriate in the course of daily work to improve efficiency and/or quality
Lead by taking initiative on challenging tasks, supporting and mentoring teammates, and fostering a collaborative, positive environment that enables successful delivery
Collaborate with other teammates through code reviews, pair coding, mentorship, training, knowledge sharing, etc.
Write automated unit tests and integration tests, and assist in manual testing as needed
As an agile team member, support the team and Product Owner to ensure that work is accurately described and appropriately prioritized, including providing input into user story acceptance criteria and sizing
Support the practice of engineering within the larger company as needed through activities such as: Assisting in outreach, recruitment, and hiring efforts, Occasionally participating in or otherwise supporting business development efforts, including code or design challenges, writing or reviewing proposal responses, etc., Participating in communities of practice
Responsibilities are expected to shift and grow organically over time.