Systems Architect
Job Family:
Systems Engineering Travel Required:
Up to 10% Clearance Required:
Ability to Obtain Public Trust
As a System Architect, you will lead the technical architecture, modernization, and continuous improvement of the Grants.gov platform and related solutions supporting federal grant-making operations. You will collaborate with federal stakeholders, product teams, engineers, security specialists, and operations personnel to design scalable, secure, and highly available solutions that support mission-critical services for millions of users across the federal grants ecosystem. You will provide architectural leadership for system enhancements, platform modernization, cloud-based services, integrations, security compliance, and operational excellence while supporting the consolidation objectives between Grants.gov and GrantSolutions.
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Lead the development and maintenance of enterprise, solution, application, integration, and platform architectures supporting Grants.gov and related services.
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Design scalable, highly available, secure, and resilient application and infrastructure solutions that support continuous operations and disaster recovery requirements.
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Define architecture roadmaps, modernization strategies, and technical recommendations that improve system performance, availability, maintainability, and cost efficiency.
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Collaborate with development, operations, security, and cloud teams to ensure architectural alignment across platforms, applications, databases, integrations, and hosting environments.
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Evaluate and recommend emerging technologies, automation capabilities, cloud services, AI-enabled solutions, and operational improvements.
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Provide technical oversight for system-to-system integrations, APIs, data exchanges, forms processing, and application workflows.
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Support architecture governance processes, solution reviews, technical documentation, and compliance with federal architecture standards and HHS Enterprise Performance Life Cycle (EPLC) requirements.
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Participate in incident investigations, root cause analyses, capacity planning, performance optimization, and technology risk assessments.
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Support cybersecurity and privacy initiatives, including Authority to Operate (ATO) activities, security documentation, POA&M management, incident response, and compliance requirements.
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Present technical concepts, architecture recommendations, alternatives, and modernization plans to executive, business, and technical stakeholders.
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Develop architecture artifacts, technical management plans, system documentation, and executive-ready presentations that support operational and strategic decision-making.
What You Will Need:
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Bachelor's degree . Additional Four(4) years of exp needed in lieu of degree.
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Eight(8) to Ten(10)+ years of experience designing, developing, and supporting enterprise-scale application architectures.
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Experience architecting cloud-hosted solutions, preferably within AWS environments.
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Experience with enterprise application integration, APIs, web services, and service-oriented or microservices architectures.
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Experience designing highly available, secure, and scalable systems supporting public-facing applications.
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Knowledge of application lifecycle management, DevSecOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, configuration management, and release management.
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Experience supporting federal IT systems and compliance frameworks.
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Strong understanding of:
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Application architecture and design patterns
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Database architecture and performance optimization
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Security architecture and risk management
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Disaster recovery and business continuity planning
- Performance and capacity management
- Identity and access management
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Experience developing technical documentation, architecture diagrams, operational procedures, and executive briefings.
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Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical a