Technical Lead / Solution Architect

Development InfoStructure•, (Multiple States)

1d•$155,000 - $170,000•Remote

About The Position

We are seeking a Technical Lead / Solution Architect to own the technical direction of a strangler-fig modernization: a legacy Java estate on one side, a Kubernetes and Kafka cloud platform on the other, and live users depending on both. This position offers architecture-level ownership of a widely adopted, open-source public health platform. As Technical Lead, you own the technical approach across both halves of a strangler-fig modernization: sustaining a legacy estate (Java application server on Windows, SQL Server, SAS, and integration-engine interfaces) while expanding its cloud-native successor (Kubernetes on AWS and Azure provisioned with Terraform and Helm, Spring microservices, Kafka and Debezium pipelines, Elasticsearch, NiFi, Keycloak, and a React front end). The codebase ships as open source, and multiple organizations contribute to it, which makes architecture governance a daily discipline rather than a document.

Requirements

Master's degree and at least 8 years of relevant experience, or Bachelor's with equivalent substitution
Hands-on architecture ownership of Kubernetes-based microservice platforms (EKS or AKS, Terraform, Helm)
Depth in Java/Spring and event-driven architectures (Kafka or equivalent), plus production experience with search or pipeline tooling such as Elasticsearch and NiFi
Experience sustaining legacy Java estates alongside modernization work

Nice To Haves

Open-source project delivery, ideally in government contexts
Prior work on health or public health data systems; HL7 exposure
Windows container and SQL Server operational experience
Section 508 and accessibility-aware front-end engineering

Responsibilities

Own the architecture
Set and defend the technical approach for decomposing legacy functions into microservices without breaking users in production
Govern architecture across a multi-vendor codebase, including reviewing and integrating code merges from other contributors
Keep every component deployable on multiple cloud providers without modification, per contract requirements
Write and maintain architecture decision records so decisions outlive the people who made them
Lead the engineering
Guide development teams across Java/Spring services, the React UI, data pipelines (Kafka, Debezium, NiFi, Elasticsearch), and SQL Server persistence
Direct the technical side of record matching, electronic case reporting, and configuration tooling modernization workstreams, completing in-progress work
Maintain a strong security posture: current dependencies, urgent vulnerability remediation on defined clocks (15 days critical, 30 days high), and audit-ready evidence
Own technical quality gates: unit test, static analysis, dependency, container, and infrastructure scanning enforced before merge and release
Connect architecture to mission
Work with the Public Health Informatician and Epidemiology SME so architecture decisions serve surveillance workflows
Support migration engineering for multiple jurisdiction onboardings per year, including environment setup and configuration validation
Advise the program manager on technical feasibility during sprint planning and release sequencing
Chair design reviews and adjudicate pull requests, including cross-vendor merges
Review pipeline health and scan results with the DevSecOps lead; triage new vulnerabilities against remediation clocks
Serve as the final technical escalation for production incidents behind the help desk tiers
Pair with workstream leads on the hard problems: matching algorithm integration, event pipeline resilience, legacy interface quirks
Keep the public demonstration environment current with the latest general availability release
Publish and refresh engineering standards (branching, build, artifact, signing, scanning) on a quarterly cadence