Solutions Architect (Senior Technical Lead)

Summary

As Solutions Architect, you'll set the technical north star for a federal IT modernization program spanning SharePoint, Microsoft 365, Power Platform, Azure integrations, and enterprise data architecture. You'll define the reference architectures, evaluate object/data models, design the network architectures that host visualization workloads, and produce the technical reports that drive agency modernization decisions. The role bridges the strategist and the builder — you're as comfortable in front of agency leadership defending an architecture roadmap as you are in a design review evaluating a microservices integration pattern. Expect to own enterprise architecture artifacts, cloud governance guidelines, and the risk assessments that gate the introduction of new technology into a sensitive federal data environment.

Responsibilities

Enterprise & data architecture

• Provide enterprise/system architecture guidance on IT solutions, data management, business alignment, and strategy
• Develop and enhance data architecture strategies, frameworks, and roadmaps aligned with federal policies
• Develop and update enterprise architecture to enable timely modernization of information management services and solutions
• Advance new ideas and evaluate object/data models to improve data access and management
• Perform data modeling, interpretation, and analysis to address dissemination methods and large-volume data management; design complex databases and data storage appropriate as enterprise solutions, ensuring operational efficiency

Cloud, network & infrastructure

• Provide guidelines for architecture and cloud usage and implement architecture governance
• Include long-term architecture and cloud solutions when meeting business needs
• Instruct the design of network architectures and systems to enable hosting of target services and solutions
• Integrate shared microservices as part of modernization initiatives
• Evaluate computing environments related to data architecture and cloud solutions and produce technical reports
• Perform backend infrastructure assessments for data storage, visualization, and analytics, and assess performance of computer backend infrastructure supporting massive analytical and computational transactions

Risk & technical reporting

• Support enterprise architecture updates and provide technical guidance for hosting solutions
• Assess the risks of implementing new technology and design and recommend countermeasures considering integration and interoperability with existing federal platforms and IT policies

Required

• 10+ years enterprise/solution architecture; 5+ years in federal environments
• Demonstrated expertise across Microsoft 365, SharePoint Online/On-Prem, Power Platform (PowerApps, Power Automate, Dynamics, Teams), and Azure integrations
• Data architecture and modeling experience aligned to federal data strategy
• Experience producing architecture artifacts: roadmaps, reference architectures, cloud usage governance
• Cloud certification preferred (Azure Solutions Architect Expert, AWS SA Pro, or equivalent)

Ideal Candidate

A builder-architect, not a slideware architect. You've shipped Microsoft 365 and Power Platform solutions inside federal boundaries, you understand why backend performance under "maximum efficiency" matters when an analyst runs a query against decades of records, and you can explain a microservices pattern to a program officer without losing them. You write architecture documents that engineers actually use and that auditors actually accept.

Clearance: Federal Public Trust (Tier 4 / High Risk); HSPD-12 PIV

Pay: $115,106.81 - $138,623.27 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Washington, DC 20591