Technical Lead (Cloud Application Architect)
ECS is seeking an experienced Technical Lead (Cloud Application Architect (Azure, Agile, DevOps) to work remotely to provide technical direction and engineering support for projects and infrastructure, including data architecture, modeling, design, data management, data security, and system integration. Enabling high-quality UI/UX design solutions for web and mobile applications and products. Please Note: This position is contingent upon contract award.
Solution Architect:
- Providing technical leadership in identifying, designing, and implementing web and mobile application standards as well as investigation of technical alternatives.
- Design, maintain and implement Azure resources, including virtual networks, storage solutions, compute instances, databases, and application services.
- Assist business domain stakeholders with migration “lift and shift” cost-benefit analyses of on-premises vs. cloud-based solutions.
- Create a secure and scalable mobile system architecture that integrates with existing systems and designated partner applications
- Ensure applications are FISMA compliant. Recommend and implement security features as necessary, to adhere to Federal, HHS, NIH, and NIAID security requirements.
- Evaluate and employ software tools that will allow the development and deployment of mobile software using a ‘write-once, run-anywhere’ model.
Cloud Migration:
- Provide advisory and technical support for cloud-related application and infrastructure modernization efforts.
- Architect and troubleshoot high availability and resilient solutions using methods, including clustering and failover.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders and development teams to create solutions to take advantage of cloud services and capabilities. (e.g. auto-scaling, serverless architectures, micro-services, containerization, etc.)
- Conducting proof-of-concept and pilot projects to evaluate cloud migration and modernization approaches.
- Assisting SEB in conducting market research on cloud platforms and tools.
Agile Delivery:
- Collaborate with business stakeholders and cross-functional teams to ensure project alignment with business objectives.
- Prepare and present HHS Enterprise Performance Life Cycle (EPLC) stage gate deliverables and presentations to review boards.
- Conduct and/or participate in formal and informal reviews throughout the EPLC life cycle.
- Enable Continuous Integration/ Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines for web and mobile applications.
- Ensure compliance with quality assurance standards, guidelines, and procedures.
Salary Range: $120,000 – $165,000
General Description of Benefits
Qualifications- Minimum 10 + years of hands-on software development experience designing and developing enterprise applications using Microsoft Tech Stack.
- 5+ Years of experience leading technical teams in Agile environments.
- 3+ years of hands-on experience building large scalable web and mobile based applications using React.
- Experience with utilizing NET Platform (.NET 8) with JavaScript, React and Vue for the front end and Microsoft SQL Server databases for data storage.
- Experience installing, configuring, and integrating custom solutions, COTS, GOTS, and FOSS into a larger collection of services and systems.
- PMP (Project Management Professional) Certification.
- Travel within the Washington DC Metro Area, and CONUS as needed.