Technology Solutions Architect

Guidehouse • Atlanta, GA

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About The Position

The Technology Solutions Architect serves as a hands-on technical thought partner to CDC stakeholders and Guidehouse delivery teams. The role translates emerging or incompletely defined mission and technology needs into practical technical approaches, including architectures, prototypes, demonstrations, and other tangible concepts that help stakeholders evaluate and refine potential solutions.

The position combines solution architecture with technical leadership for interoperable public-health data exchange, analytics, and AI-enabled solutions. It provides technical leadership on CDC projects and contributes reusable architectures, prototypes, and technical insights that strengthen client delivery and selected account opportunities. The architect collaborates with CDC technical personnel as a credible peer and leads multidisciplinary teams through solution design, implementation, testing, troubleshooting, and operational transition.

Requirements

• Minimum of eight 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, including approved adjudication 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.
• Active Public Trust or suitability.

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.

Benefits

• Comprehensive total rewards package with competitive compensation and a flexible benefits package.
• Medical, prescription, dental, and vision insurance.
• Personal and family sick time and 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 and 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.

What This Job Offers

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