Principal Solutions Architect (Remote)
Credence Management Solutions, LLC5 months ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
Base Salary
$180k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own reference architectures, integration patterns, platform decisions, roadmaps, and architectural standards for VA IT modernization programs.
- Write proof-of-concept code and hands-on prototypes to validate and de-risk architectural decisions.
- Represent Credence technically to VA stakeholders through RFI responses, oral presentations, customer engagements, and relationship-building activities.
- Contribute to capture strategy, technical volumes, win themes, technical Q&A, and customer discovery.
- Provide architectural guidance and technical mentorship to engineering teams.
- Review delivery-team solution designs against Credence standards and VA compliance requirements as the practice grows.
- Document architectural decisions, integration contracts, and technical standards.
- Support DoD delivery programs while the VA practice scales.
Requirements
- U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain a successful Federal Background Investigation.
- At least ten years of hands-on technical experience.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field; a master's degree is preferred.
- Recent, hands-on production experience using AI, Machine Learning, or Generative AI, such as LLM integrations, RAG pipelines, MLOps infrastructure, model training or fine-tuning, or agentic AI systems.
- Prior experience working at the Department of Veterans Affairs as an employee or contractor.
- Enterprise-scale architecture experience involving $100M+ programs or equivalent complexity, plus task-order delivery experience.
- Deep secure cloud architecture experience with AWS and/or Azure, including networking, identity, service-model selection, FedRAMP, and NIST controls.
- Deep experience with DevSecOps practices, automated testing, infrastructure as code, and shift-left security.
- Breadth in API design, application development, containerization, microservices, and software engineering practices.
- Familiarity with federal reference architectures, NIST 800-53, and VA EHRM/OIT standards.
- Proven technical leadership, architectural direction-setting, mentoring, and hands-on problem-solving experience.
- Preferred qualifications include healthcare informatics, DoD program, application portfolio and modernization assessment, data analytics, SaaS, low/no-code, RPA, and network engineering experience.
- Technical certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect or Azure Solutions Architect are valued but not required.
- Strong oral and written communication, critical thinking, comfort with ambiguity, and a bias toward action.
Benefits
- Remote work and work-from-home arrangement.
- Health care plan including medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Retirement plan including 401(k) and IRA options.
- Basic, voluntary, and AD&D life insurance.
- Paid vacation, sick leave, and public holidays.
- Maternity and paternity family leave.
- Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
- Training and development opportunities.
- Free food and snacks.
- Wellness resources.