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Senior Cloud Architect - Remote

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Reston, VA, USASenior

Base Salary

$144k - $245k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead enterprise architecture, platform integration, product engineering, and application modernization across a complex federal technology environment.
  • Establish architecture standards, reference patterns, integration approaches, and governance guardrails for SaaS, cloud, platform, and application capabilities.
  • Guide solution design across cloud providers, SaaS platforms, enterprise productivity tools, low-code platforms, APIs, workflow automation, data integrations, and secure access patterns.
  • Lead architectural design reviews and technical decision forums to ensure solutions are secure, scalable, supportable, and aligned with modernization objectives.
  • Define and govern integration patterns using APIs, SDKs, webhooks, event streams, serverless functions, workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and automation tools.
  • Support infrastructure-as-code, policy-as-code, configuration-as-code, DNS-as-code, and other repeatable automation practices.
  • Guide product delivery and sustainment teams through requirements, solution design, backlog refinement, development, testing, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
  • Partner with cybersecurity teams on Zero Trust principles, access controls, logging, monitoring, encryption, vulnerability remediation, and compliance requirements.
  • Coordinate with data teams on governed data access, data quality, analytics, reporting, and AI-enabled capabilities.
  • Provide technical leadership for platform rationalization, application lifecycle planning, performance optimization, technical debt reduction, and automation opportunities.
  • Support release planning, change management, technical documentation, implementation plans, architecture diagrams, runbooks, and knowledge-transfer materials.
  • Translate complex technical issues into recommendations for client stakeholders, program leadership, product teams, and delivery partners.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree.
  • U.S. citizenship is required due to federal contract requirements.
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a Federal Public Trust clearance.
  • At least 15 years of experience leading enterprise architecture, systems integration, platform engineering, application modernization, or product engineering in complex enterprise environments.
  • One active cloud, enterprise architecture, security, or IT service management certification, such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Google Professional Cloud Architect, TOGAF, CISSP, Security+, or ITIL Foundation.
  • Preferred experience includes 8+ years designing and governing cloud, SaaS, PaaS, or enterprise platform solutions across multi-team delivery environments.
  • Preferred experience includes 5+ years supporting federal or regulated technology programs, leading application modernization or platform integration, and working with cloud platforms and DevSecOps delivery.
  • Preferred experience includes 3+ years governing infrastructure-as-code or similar automation, enterprise SaaS or collaboration platforms, and architecture reviews or technical governance boards.
  • Experience with HHS, NIH, FDA, CMS, CDC, or other health-focused federal environments is preferred.
  • Experience with Zero Trust architecture, identity-aware access, conditional access, TIC 3.0, NIST 800-53, CIS benchmarks, FISMA, or FedRAMP-aligned environments is preferred.
  • Experience with Microsoft Power Platform, enterprise identity, endpoint management, collaboration platforms, networking, secure access, platform operations, product management, Agile delivery, and release planning is preferred.
  • Additional cloud, security, Agile, ITIL, DevSecOps, Microsoft, AWS, Google Cloud, or enterprise architecture certification is preferred.

Benefits

  • Remote within the United States; access from foreign locations and IP addresses is restricted, and personal VPN connections are prohibited.
  • The role is contingent upon a contract award.
  • ICF offers reasonable accommodations for disability, religious purposes, disabled veterans, and individuals with sincerely held religious beliefs.
  • The position is full-time and has a stated nationwide remote pay range of $144,381.00-$245,448.00.
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