Senior Technical Solutions Architect (Remote)

@ ICF Next, we are fearless in finding new ways to solve problems, relentless in making sure it pays off for our clients and committed to making a positive change in the world. 

Here’s your chance to join our award-winning agency, ICF Next. We’re changemakers, a community of mission driven creatives, communicators, strategists, and technologists.  

We’re searching for our next Senior Technical Solutions Architect to support digital experience and enterprise web for public sector clients. In this high visibility role, you will work in a hands-on capacity to lead design and technical discussions with project teams, assist in the design of technical solutions for proposals, and gain trusted advisor status with clients.  

We are looking for a creative technologist who can communicate technology decisions to business leadership. Preventing civic tech problems is the goal, and finding the solution is your focus.  

You know that “better” has many meanings—from more secure, reliable, and maintainable to better aligned to our clients’ goals and end user needs—and we’ll put you in the position to make civic tech better for our federal and state clients. 

What you'll be doing day to day : 

• Assess and Advise  

• You'll become a trusted advisor to our clients and delivery teams.  

• You'll advise project teams by reviewing our products and engineering processes to improve, standardize, and drive business value while decreasing the effort to get there.  

• You'll share strategic technical direction with the rest of the organization.   

• Envision the Future  

• You'll demonstrate thought leadership in cloud architecture and solution architecture for citizen-facing digital experiences, showing fluency across the most popular cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP). 

• You'll design solutions that address complex modernization challenges while balancing our clients' business constraints.   

• You'll maintain awareness of and evaluate emerging open-source solutions, cloud capabilities, technologies, and tools.  

• You'll help roadmap the path to help our clients move away from outdated approaches to approaches that are more performant, reliable, scalable, and easier to maintain.  

• Build the Practice  

• You will report directly to the Senior Director of Engineering and provide architectural perspective to the 75-person engineering practice. 

• You’ll work with the new business capture teams to understand requirements that are frequently vague or ambiguous, define a logical solution that meets the requirements, and document the solution clearly using diagrams and benefit statements.  

• You’ll provide input on industry standards and collaborate with other teams across ICF—particularly in the context of new business opportunities that are very large and cross-cutting.  

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or related discipline (or equivalent experience and certifications).  

• 4+ years providing architectural leadership for a complex, public-facing web modernization effort with high visibility. 

• 4+ years of experience with prominent cloud, service-oriented, and open-source technologies with demonstrated architectural design and system development accomplishments.  

• 2+ years supporting architectural discovery and solution development for new business opportunities, including developing solution diagrams and writing proposal language. 

• 2+ years providing architectural guidance for systems within a Microsoft stack (e.g. Azure, Sitecore, .NET) 

• Must be able to successfully complete client background check including travel to California for fingerprinting.

Expectations:

• Excellent oral communications, thought leadership, and formal presentation skills  

• Depth of expertise in implementing and integrating – as part of a broader enterprise solution – a variety of CMS technologies (e.g. Drupal, Wordpress, Adobe Experience Manager, Sitecore), CRM technologies (e.g. Salesforce), and other marketing technologies (e.g. GovDelivery, Salesforce Marketing Cloud). 

Preferred Skills: 

• Expertise in SDLC and RMF for federal customers, including ATO categorization, documentation, and processes. 

• Demonstrated understanding of TOGAF and SAFe.  

• Expertise with AWS, GCP, Azure, or container cloud services and modern container orchestration systems: Kubernetes, Mesos, DC/OS, Swarm.  

• Familiarity with industry standards for building services in IaaS/PaaS/SaaS in Cloud environments.  

• Familiarity with ServiceNow, Appian, and Salesforce, including recognizing ideal use cases for No-code/Low-code technologies over custom, open-source application development. 

• Comfort facilitating and/or supporting technology discovery, system design workshops, and human-centered design workshops.