1 month ago
Boston, MA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$162k - $255k/yr
Responsibilities
- Identify and shape state and local government business opportunities, build qualified pipelines, and map agency needs to SMX capabilities.
- Develop productized services, reusable accelerators, solution offerings, and go-to-market strategies from market and client insights.
- Write technical approaches, solution architectures, and sales materials for RFP/RFQ and capture efforts.
- Lead application architecture from discovery through implementation, including architecture documents, decision records, governance, and regulatory compliance.
- Assess agency application portfolios and recommend rehost, replatform, refactor, replace, or retire strategies with associated effort, cost, and risk.
- Own technical delivery patterns and guardrails for modernization programs, including deployment automation, observability, incident response, and SLOs.
- Advise senior government executives by translating technical decisions into business impact.
- Lead delivery teams, set technical direction, conduct design and code reviews, manage staffing and skills-gap decisions, and participate in hiring and performance discussions.
- Mentor architects and engineers and raise technical standards across the practice.
Requirements
- At least 15 years of experience in enterprise technology, architecture, engineering, or technical consulting.
- At least 3 years contributing to or leading government professional-services business development and capture activities.
- At least 3 years directly leading engineering teams, including technical direction, mentoring, hiring, and performance management.
- Experience identifying market opportunities and translating AI/ML, data modernization, and cloud trends into revenue-generating service lines or reusable frameworks.
- Application modernization experience from legacy systems to cloud-native architectures, including ownership of at least two substantial modernization efforts.
- Expertise in application architecture, decomposition, refactoring strategy, API design, API management, integration architecture, CI/CD pipeline design, and release engineering.
- Deep experience with C#, ASP.NET Core, and .NET Framework 4.8, including incremental modernization of Framework applications.
- Strong SQL Server 2019 or later and Entity Framework/EF Core experience, including query tuning and zero-downtime migration strategies.
- Working depth in React.js/JavaScript or Angular/TypeScript, with enough familiarity with both to set standards and review code.
- Hands-on application-layer AWS experience and infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform or CDK.
- Practical AI/ML experience with Bedrock, SageMaker, or equivalent, including generative AI and RAG architectures.
- Data and analytics fluency across data lakes, analytics platforms, and BI tooling.
- Experience working in regulated environments involving FedRAMP Moderate, HIPAA, CJIS, or IRS Pub 1075.
- Strong architecture documentation, executive presentation, proposal-writing, communication, and technical consulting skills.
- Preferred qualifications include AWS Solutions Architect - Professional or equivalent certification, state and local government experience, Medicaid or public benefits technology experience, Oracle migration experience, and familiarity with Appian, ServiceNow, Snowflake, Informatica, and Tableau.
Benefits
- Health insurance, paid leave, and retirement benefits are offered.
- The company offers learning and development opportunities and a competitive compensation package.
- This is a hybrid position supporting a Boston, Massachusetts-based customer.
- Selected applicants may be subject to a background investigation and/or education verification.
Tech Stack
Amazon DynamoDBAngularAWSC#InformaticaJavaScriptMicrosoft SQL ServerReactSnowflakeTerraformTypeScript
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About SMX
SMX provides cloud, cyber, data analytics, and C5ISR engineering services to U.S. federal agencies and commercial enterprises, delivering systems integration and managed solutions. The company operates from Hollywood, Maryland, and was formed by unifying several legacy firms (including Smartronix, Datastrong, and Creoal) under the SMX name in 2021; it is backed by OceanSound Partners. Customers span the Department of Defense, civilian public sector, and Fortune 1000 organizations.