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Compensation
Our Compensation System is designed to reward remarkable work, grow your impact and support the whole “you” over the course of your career.
We believe in paying people fairly, so we've established a compensation model aimed to ensure everyone at Fearless — regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, nationality, or negotiation skills — is given equal pay for equal work. The salary ranges for this position based on location are listed below. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified as a part of our annual salary range review.
Salary
- AL, FL, GA, TN Residents: $126,294 (min) - $167,340 (mid) - $208,385 (max)
- NC Residents: $130,200 (min) - $172,515 (mid) - $214,830 (max)
- DE, MD, PA, TX, VA Residents: $136,710 (min) - $181,141 (mid) - $225,572 (max)
- DC Residents: $153,636 (min) - $203,568 (mid) - $253,500 (max)
- CA & NY Residents: $158,844 (min) - $210,468 (mid) - $262,093 (max)
Location
- Hybrid. The ideal candidate lives within a 75-mile radius of the DC Metro area. This individual may be required to visit customers in-person.
Employment Type
Full-time
What you’ll be doing
We’re looking to change the world by building software with a soul, and we want your help.
The Solution Architect coordinates the technical aspects of all the development, architectural, operational, security, and testing activities for multiple project teams. They help bridge the portfolio’s broader goals with the technical implementation, helping to define, implement, and inspire adherence to the technical direction, processes, and standards for the portfolio. The Solution Architect will guide cross-functional teams, ensure alignment with industry and government standards, and lead the transition to cloud-native solutions, optimizing for security and performance. This position emphasizes high-level architectural decisions and hands-on involvement in technical direction, risk management, and compliance.
We need your Architecture skills! What other skills will help you succeed at Fearless? Glad you asked! We’re excited about candidates who can accomplish the following:
Responsibilities and Contributions Organizational and Leadership Role
- Leads the portfolio’s technical direction, working in close collaboration with the Practice Director(s) and Portfolio Director to align with the portfolio’s strategy and vision.
- Leads the strategy for technical solutions and plans, navigating strict regulatory landscapes and addressing key risks and controls.
- Strengthens strategic relationships with peers, leaders, customers, users, and stakeholders, interfacing directly with our customers as a technical SME.
- Guides the planning and development of new features in collaboration with Designers, Product Managers, and Engineers to ensure alignment with the product vision.
- Through coaching and leadership, grows the technical understanding of the stakeholders in the portfolio.
- Lead the adoption and implementation of DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines across project teams.
- Maintain a deep understanding of government contracting regulations, including FedRAMP, NIST, and other federal standards, ensuring all solutions are compliant and secure.
- Collaborate with security teams to integrate proactive risk management strategies into the architecture, focusing on early threat detection and comprehensive compliance audits.
Functional Role
- Sets appropriate high-level architecture decisions, keeping in mind scale, portfolio strategy, and technical reusability.
- Understands the project’s legacy systems and historical decisions and the impact it may create in the context of future systems and work.
- Skillfully defines project needs, consistently gathering appropriate breadth and depth of relevant data and drawing on a wide array of sources to assess and document the situation for the teams under their jurisdiction.
- Leads and empowers their teams by communicating and documenting the projects’ technical visions.
- Has the technical understanding and domain knowledge needed to be able to swap, with appropriate context, between teams in a portfolio.
- Oversee the implementation of CI/CD pipelines, automation tools, and testing frameworks to support rapid, reliable deployments.
- Architect scalable, resilient cloud solutions across multi-cloud environments, prioritizing cybersecurity and regulatory compliance.
- Develop strategies for transitioning from on-premise solutions to cloud environments, with a focus on minimizing disruption and maximizing interoperability.
- Design future-proof architectures that allow for easy upgrades and integration with new technologies, aligning with both current and anticipated organizational needs.
Essential Skills, Experience, or Competencies Must-Have Skills
- Ability to understand and respond to customer needs and collaborate as part of a cross-functional team.
- Deeply experienced in multiple engineering domains (software, site reliability, data, testing, etc.) with strong supporting knowledge in the others.
- Advanced ability to discuss abstract software development concepts and best practices in areas such as single-responsibility, cohesion, data immutability, and other paradigm-appropriate design patterns.
- Demonstrated experience architecting, building, and deploying technical solutions that use multiple data stores targeting specific application use cases, including multiple technologies including but not limited to RDBMS and noSQL databases.
- Demonstrated experience architecting the transformation and consolidation of major systems with common data stores, system security, API management services, business intelligence tools, reporting and visualization tools, and hosting and infrastructure requirements.
- Experience across the entire development process, from conception to production operations.
- Ability to operate and manage work, strategically reason, build relationships, and influence others.
- Demonstrated ability to us appropriate breadth and depth of context and data to make sensible and timely decisions, and displays sound judgment when faced with opportunities and challenges
- Expertise in designing, implementing, and managing multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP), with a deep understanding of cloud infrastructure, services, and best practices for government and regulated industries.
- Familiarity with tools like Jenkins, Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes, with the ability to oversee and implement automated deployment pipelines and operational improvements.
- Comprehensive knowledge of security frameworks, such as FedRAMP, NIST, and ISO standards, with experience embedding these requirements into architectural designs.
- Strong ability to make high-level architectural decisions that balance technical requirements, project constraints, and strategic goals.
Highly Desired Skills and Experience
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- BS/MS/M.Eng. in Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or similar technology-related degree.
- Experience working with Government or large industry clients.
- Understanding of Enterprise Integration Patterns.
- Holds a current AWS Certified Developer Associate, Solutions Architecture Associate, or Solutions Architect Professional, or similar certification in another cloud platform.
- Holds a current CISSP, Security+, or other information security certification.
- Holds relevant certifications, such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, CISSP, or Security+, showcasing expertise in cloud architecture and security compliance for regulated industries.
- Previous experience working on government or large public-sector projects, with an understanding of unique regulatory requirements, risk management, and security needs that accompany such projects.
- Familiarity with government contracting processes, systems, and regulations. Knowledge of the compliance landscape specific to federal contracts and experience in designing solutions that meet stringent security and reporting requirements.
Over the years, we’ve honed our interview process to help ensure that every team member we hire is the right fit for us and that we’re the right fit for them. If we think you’re a good fit, we’ll get in touch and start scheduling your interviews! Depending on the role's/project's requirements, the interview process may include some differences. At the minimum
- Introductory Interview: This is where you and your recruiter will build rapport, explore your career and educational background, discuss salary expectations, role requirements, and set expectations for the interview process, specific to the position of interest.
- Technical Interview (Skills Fit): This is where we get into the nitty gritty of the project. During the Technical Interview, you’ll be interviewed by the technical team to dig more into your background and technical capabilities.
- Business Interview: At this point, you’ve made it to the final frontier! The Business Interview is when you’ll meet with Fearless leadership to dot the i’s, cross the t’s, and determine whether or not we’ll be moving forward with the hiring process.
About Fearless Digital
Fearless Digital builds software with a soul. As a division inside Fearless, we're part of its digital services integrator model to unlock the power of organizations, people and tech. Our division designs, engineers, and delivers digital solutions to solve problems and drive impact. Using iterative development cycles, we minimize risk for our customers and efficiently deliver intuitive and responsive technology. In this way, we help set the stage for tech to work better for people. That's not our only goal, though. We also strive to create a purple culture that makes our team members excited to come to work every day. We take a holistic approach to our people’s well-being, and our culture and benefits are designed to support our people in working the way they like best. We encourage our people to pursue their passions, both in and out of the office. With flexible schedules, continuing education support, and a family-friendly work environment, we’ve created a culture that allows our team to thrive professionally and personally.
Fearless believes in equal opportunity employment. We won’t discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, gender, nationality, age, religion, disability, military status, or sexual orientation. As a company and as individuals, we’re committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming environment for our team, our family members, our clients, our subcontractors, and our vendors.
Fearless Digital Benefits
Benefits Eligibility:
- Full-time team members are eligible for benefits upon beginning employment at Fearless
- Part-time team members are only eligible for 8.75 days of safe & sick leave
- Interns and 1099 team members are not eligible for Fearless benefits
Our people make us who we are. We believe that every member of the Fearless team has something to share, and we value the unique viewpoint you’ll bring to our community. But we value your community, too, so we offer fulfilling work that stays in balance with the rest of life. Because everyone has different needs, desires, and goals, our benefits offer the choices and flexibility that our team members need to live well and succeed. Here are a few highlights of our benefits package, for full-time team members, exclusively:
- Life-friendly schedules
- Family-friendly workplace
- We cover 100% of your premium for our medical HSA plan + the deductible portion of HSA contributions, 80% of your premium for our HMO or PPO plans, and offer competitive dependent coverage. We cover 100% of dental and vision premiums for you and your dependents and offer medical and dependent care FSA options. We also offer life insurance, short- and long-term disability coverage, and legal planning and support insurance.
- Tech, education / training, and wellness allowances
- Safe Harbor 401(k) plan with employer contributions (current match = 4%) and immediate vesting
- Referral bonus: Bring your friends! If someone you refer is hired, you’ll get a bonus of $6–12k!
- Total Pet Plan
- Employee Assistance Program
- Up 12 weeks of FMLA paid at 100%
- PTO is provided to team members as a lump sum allowance, not an accrual. PTO is prorated based on your start date (see table below) on a quarterly basis (with tenure-based increases), 8.75 days of sick leave, 11 federal holidays, their birthday (8 hours), up to 15 days for jury duty, and up to 3 days (24 hours) of bereavement leave per eligible instance.
What We Do
We're a full-stack digital services firm in Baltimore, Maryland with a mission to create software with a soul - tools that empower communities and make a difference. Fearless delivers sleek, modern, and user-friendly software designed to push the boundaries of possibility, to create a world where good software powers the things that matter.
Our clients are changemakers who want to use technology to make the world a better place. They know that digital transformation will improve services for all and we're here to help support their passion for better.
Fearless has partnered with the Government to successfully launch multiple projects which include:
-SBA.gov: We run the digital face and all infrastructure that powers SBA.gov.
-SBA HUBZone Modernization: We are the firm that did the modernization of SBA's HUBZone technology.
-Login.gov: Fearless currently is the prime contractor supporting the development of Login.gov the central identity provider into government services.
-Search.gov: A platform that supports nearly 2,000 search boxes on Federal websites, free of charge. It provides both critical searching capabilities to these sites and key information on trends, queries, and results for administrative users.
-Challenge.gov: Furthers the mission of “delivering value and savings in real estate, acquisition, technology, and other mission-support services across government.”
-US Air Force (BESPIN): A center of excellence in digital, mobile, data, and technology. BESPIN collaborates with divisions throughout BES to help them with their own transformations, working with them to build teams, platforms, standards, and digital services.
