Technology Solutions Architect

Guidehouse • Atlanta, GA

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About The Position

The Technology Solutions Architect will serve as a hands-on technical thought partner to CDC stakeholders and Guidehouse delivery teams. The role involves listening to CDC’s mission and technology challenges, translating emerging or incompletely defined needs into practical technical approaches, and developing architectures, prototypes, demonstrations, and other tangible concepts to help stakeholders evaluate and refine potential solutions. It combines solution architecture with technical leadership for interoperable public-health data exchange, analytics, and AI-enabled solutions. The position provides technical leadership on CDC projects while strengthening Guidehouse’s ability to support CDC through trusted relationships and technically credible work.

The architect will lead the design of scalable, secure solutions for public-health data exchange, interoperability, analytics, and AI/ML, while accounting for public-health workflows, governance, privacy, and operational constraints. The role applies standards and technologies such as HL7 v2, FHIR, CDA, APIs, and terminology systems to surveillance, reporting, integration, and related mission use cases. The position also leads multidisciplinary technical teams through design, implementation, testing, troubleshooting, and operational transition, and provides technical oversight and quality assurance across the technology stack.

The role leads technical discussions and design reviews, communicating decisions, tradeoffs, dependencies, and risks. It also develops reusable architectures, prototypes, and technical insights that strengthen client delivery and selected account opportunities. The position requires working in or regularly engaging with CDC stakeholders in Atlanta. U.S. citizenship is contractually required, and the candidate must obtain and maintain a Federal or DoD Public Trust, with approved adjudication required before onboarding with Guidehouse.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of work experience.
• Experience designing, modernizing, integrating, or delivering complex technology solutions, including at least four years in a Technical Lead, Solution Architect, Technical Architect, or comparable leadership role.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary technical teams and translating client needs into scalable, secure, executable solutions.
• Public-health technology or informatics experience involving surveillance, epidemiology, reporting, laboratory, registry, or related workflows.
• Experience with public-health data exchange among public-health agencies, laboratories, registries, healthcare partners, or federal systems.
• Working knowledge of public-health interoperability approaches and one or more standards or technologies such as HL7 v2, FHIR, CDA, APIs, or terminology systems.
• Experience designing solutions across multiple technology-stack layers.
• Experience providing oversight across design, implementation, testing, troubleshooting, and quality review.
• Ability to turn ambiguous needs into practical approaches and communicate them to technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Ability to work in or regularly engage with CDC stakeholders in Atlanta.
• U.S. citizenship is contractually required.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Federal or DoD Public Trust; approved Public Trust adjudication is required before onboarding with Guidehouse.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting CDC programs, mission systems, or technology organizations.
• Deep expertise in one or more public-health interoperability standards or technologies.
• Experience modernizing surveillance, laboratory, registry, epidemiology, or data-exchange solutions.
• Hands-on experience with prototypes, demonstrations, proofs of concept, or reference architectures.
• Experience applying cloud, analytics, AI/ML, generative AI, or intelligent automation to public-health use cases.
• Familiarity with federal health IT security, privacy, accessibility, data governance, and compliance.
• Relevant technical or public-health informatics certifications.
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university.
• Candidates with an active Public Trust or suitability are preferred.

Responsibilities

• Translate emerging or incompletely defined needs into practical architectures, prototypes, demonstrations, and technical options.
• Lead the design of scalable, secure solutions for public-health data exchange, interoperability, analytics, and AI/ML, aligned with public-health workflows, governance, privacy, and operational constraints.
• Apply standards and technologies including HL7 v2, FHIR, CDA, APIs, and terminology systems to surveillance, reporting, integration, and related mission use cases.
• Lead multidisciplinary technical teams from design through implementation, testing, troubleshooting, and operational transition.
• Provide technical oversight and quality assurance across the technology stack.
• Lead technical discussions and design reviews, communicating decisions, tradeoffs, dependencies, and risks.
• Develop reusable architectures, prototypes, and technical insights that strengthen client delivery and selected account opportunities.
• Provide technical leadership on CDC project(s).

Benefits

• Medical, prescription, dental, and vision insurance
• Personal and family sick time
• Company-paid holidays
• Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus
• Parental leave and adoption assistance
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Basic life and supplemental life insurance
• Health Savings Account
• Dental/vision and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Student Loan PayDown
• Tuition reimbursement
• Personal development and learning opportunities
• Skills development and certifications
• Employee referral program
• Corporate-sponsored events and community outreach
• Emergency back-up childcare program
• Mobility stipend
• Flexible benefits package

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed