1 day ago
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 architecture 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 and data teams on Zero Trust, access controls, logging, monitoring, encryption, vulnerability remediation, compliance, 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 clients, program leadership, product teams, and delivery partners.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- U.S. citizenship required due to federal contract requirements.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Federal Public Trust clearance.
- 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.
- 8+ years of experience designing and governing cloud, SaaS, PaaS, or enterprise platform solutions across multi-team delivery environments.
- 5+ years of experience supporting federal technology programs or regulated enterprise environments with formal security, compliance, or authorization requirements.
- 5+ years of experience leading technical design for application modernization, platform integration, product development, API integration, workflow automation, or DevSecOps delivery.
- 5+ years of experience with AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
- 5+ years of experience with DevSecOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, version control, automated testing, release management, and environment promotion.
- 3+ years of experience implementing or governing infrastructure-as-code, policy-as-code, configuration-as-code, or similar automation approaches.
- 3+ years of experience with enterprise SaaS or collaboration platforms such as Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, SharePoint, Teams, Slack, GitHub, ServiceNow, Salesforce, Adobe, or DocuSign.
- 3+ years of experience leading architecture reviews, technical governance boards, engineering standards development, or solution design approvals.
- Experience with health-focused federal environments such as HHS, NIH, FDA, CMS, or CDC is preferred.
- Experience with SaaS-first or cloud-first architecture, Zero Trust, 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, including Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Dataverse, ALM, environment strategy, and governance is preferred.
- Experience with enterprise identity, endpoint management, collaboration platforms, networking, secure access, and platform operations is preferred.
- Experience with product management, Agile delivery, backlog governance, release planning, sprint execution, and user-centered product delivery is preferred.
- Additional cloud, security, Agile, ITIL, DevSecOps, Microsoft, AWS, Google Cloud, or enterprise architecture certification is preferred.
Benefits
- Remote within the United States with nationwide remote office designation.
- Foreign work locations and foreign IP access are restricted, and personal VPN connections are prohibited.
- The role is contingent upon a contract award.
- ICF provides reasonable accommodations for disability, religious, and other eligible needs.
- ICF offers equal employment opportunity and confidential accommodation support.
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About ICF
ICF is a global consulting and technology services firm serving government and commercial clients across domains such as energy, health, climate, and digital modernization. It delivers advisory, program implementation, analytics, and software-enabled solutions on platforms like ServiceNow. Founded in 1969 and headquartered in Reston, Virginia, ICF is a public company traded on NASDAQ and works extensively with U.S. federal, state and local agencies as well as regulated industries.