Description & Requirements
Maximus Federal, a leading provider of innovative business process management and technology solutions for government customers worldwide, is seeking a highly experienced and dynamic Vice President, Solution Architect who is an accomplished technical leader, proactive customer-focused advocate, and a team player.
This role will be responsible for providing strategic direction, leadership, and operational excellence in developing differentiated solutions across the enterprise in technology areas such as DevSecOps, cloud and cloud migration, software factories, microservices, AI/ML, data mesh/fabric, zero trust, and other industry leading digital modernization solutions. This role requires a deep understanding of Software Development Lifecycle, Tools and Technologies, a strong grasp of industry best practices, and the ability to lead and collaborate. You will bring a deep understanding of Engineering best practices, extensive experience in Digital Transformation, and a proven track record of success in leading cross-functional teams.
Successful candidates must demonstrate experience in the full lifecycle for a solution architect including innovative technology development, customer shaping, proposal/orals preparation and delivery, through to successful program standup/transition.
As a member of the CTO's team, the candidate must be able to operate independently and demonstrate experience leading/guiding a team to architect, develop and implement business applications at enterprise scale.
The individual must have over 15 years of experience architecting, and managing federal technology and cyber security solutions implementations with working experience across Public/Private cloud platforms, DevSecOps, Microservices, and Security Engineering. Ideal candidates will have a wide range of experience architecting modern technology solutions, Knowledge of current and emerging Federal standards such as CMMI, ITIL, NIST Risk Management Framework, FISMA, and FEDRAMP with international experience preferred.
Job Duties:
- Provides technical solution support during proposal development process, to include technology stack selection, solution architecture, and implementation methodology to include customer engagement and shaping.
- Leads and manages internal teams to architect solutions, facilitate solutions design, and manage implementations including working with industry leading partners (e.g. AWS, MSFT, Google, ServiceNow, Sales Force).
- Design and develop advanced technology solutions according to federal standards, leveraging state of the art enterprise grade technologies and design best practices that enable a federal agency level scalability and flexibility.
- Responsible for guiding and supporting RFIs, RFPs and RFQs, response development including writing of whitepapers and concept development.
- Develop and provide presentations and demonstrations of technology solutions to both internal and external stakeholders.
- Maintain vendor partnership levels and develop a strong vendor relationship with the technology counterparts.
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field from an accredited college or university or at least 15 years in highly relevant positions. Master's Degree is preferred.
- Understanding of current federal solution space and federal government initiatives with demonstrated capture and/or bid experience.
- At least fifteen (15) years of experience in the Federal IT or Software Development.
- At least five (5) years of experience as an architect in building complex, resilient and highly scalable application and platform solutions.
- At least five (5) years of recent experience directly guiding and mentoring software development SMEs and providing management of program technical tasks.
- Hands-on experience with Azure, AWS, Google Cloud or one of the other major Cloud providers.
- Deep knowledge of Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
- Demonstrated ability to effectively inspire and influence teams and partners in delivering technology-enabled business solutions that meet business needs.
- Technical professional experience building scalable enterprise applications with high availability and reliability. Strong technology affinity and experience, as well as attention to detail and the ability to design, execute against strategic goals.
- Ability to independently work as a contributing member in a high-paced and focused team. Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to thrive in a flexible and fast-paced environment across multiple time zones and locations.
- Demonstrated ability to lead the team from the front by stepping in and getting hands-on with code to drive a solution that your engineers can build upon.
- Experience with one or more Programming languages.
- Experience with Agile development methodology and Test-Driven Development, and working experience in a DevSecOps environment is highly desired.
- Broad knowledge of software engineering: languages, frameworks, techniques, industry trends, etc.
- Proven experience communicating with non-technical business personnel and ability to interact and work in a team environment.
- Professional implementation experience should include both project management and solution architecture tasks to include designing, implementing and improving business processes.
- Strong demonstrated skills with analytical problem-solving abilities.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including presentation skills to senior management both internal and external including SMEs.
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