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Systems Engineering
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As a System Architect, you will lead the technical architecture, modernization, and continuous improvement of the Grants.gov platform and related solutions supporting federal grant-making operations. You will collaborate with federal stakeholders, product teams, engineers, security specialists, and operations personnel to design scalable, secure, and highly available solutions that support mission-critical services for millions of users across the federal grants ecosystem. You will provide architectural leadership for system enhancements, platform modernization, cloud-based services, integrations, security compliance, and operational excellence while supporting the consolidation objectives between Grants.gov and GrantSolutions.
Lead the development and maintenance of enterprise, solution, application, integration, and platform architectures supporting Grants.gov and related services.
Design scalable, highly available, secure, and resilient application and infrastructure solutions that support continuous operations and disaster recovery requirements.
Define architecture roadmaps, modernization strategies, and technical recommendations that improve system performance, availability, maintainability, and cost efficiency.
Collaborate with development, operations, security, and cloud teams to ensure architectural alignment across platforms, applications, databases, integrations, and hosting environments.
Evaluate and recommend emerging technologies, automation capabilities, cloud services, AI-enabled solutions, and operational improvements.
Provide technical oversight for system-to-system integrations, APIs, data exchanges, forms processing, and application workflows.
Support architecture governance processes, solution reviews, technical documentation, and compliance with federal architecture standards and HHS Enterprise Performance Life Cycle (EPLC) requirements.
Participate in incident investigations, root cause analyses, capacity planning, performance optimization, and technology risk assessments.
Support cybersecurity and privacy initiatives, including Authority to Operate (ATO) activities, security documentation, POA&M management, incident response, and compliance requirements.
Present technical concepts, architecture recommendations, alternatives, and modernization plans to executive, business, and technical stakeholders.
Develop architecture artifacts, technical management plans, system documentation, and executive-ready presentations that support operational and strategic decision-making.
What You Will Need:
Bachelor's degree . Additional Four(4) years of exp needed in lieu of degree.
Eight(8) to Ten(10)+ years of experience designing, developing, and supporting enterprise-scale application architectures.
Experience architecting cloud-hosted solutions, preferably within AWS environments.
Experience with enterprise application integration, APIs, web services, and service-oriented or microservices architectures.
Experience designing highly available, secure, and scalable systems supporting public-facing applications.
Knowledge of application lifecycle management, DevSecOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, configuration management, and release management.
Experience supporting federal IT systems and compliance frameworks.
Strong understanding of:
Application architecture and design patterns
Database architecture and performance optimization
Security architecture and risk management
Disaster recovery and business continuity planning
Performance and capacity management
Identity and access management
Experience developing technical documentation, architecture diagrams, operational procedures, and executive briefings.
Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Must be able to OBTAIN and MAINTAIN a Federal or DoD "PUBLIC TRUST"; candidates must obtain approved adjudication of their PUBLIC TRUST prior to onboarding with Guidehouse. Candidates with an ACTIVE PUBLIC TRUST or SUITABILITY are preferred.
What Would Be Nice To Have:
Experience supporting federal grants management systems, shared service platforms, or large public-facing government applications.
Experience with Grants.gov
Experience with HHS, ACF, CMS, HRSA, NIH, or other federal grant-making agencies.
Knowledge of HHS Enterprise Performance Life Cycle (EPLC), federal IT governance, ATO processes, security assessment activities, and compliance-driven delivery environments.
Experience with Grants.gov-like capabilities, including public-facing web applications, applicant submissions, grantor user management, S2S integrations, forms processing, chatbot support, helpdesk escalations, or system status communications.
Experience supporting cloud-hosted applications, AWS environments, application platform security, certificate management, account management, logging, monitoring, backup validation, or disaster recovery planning.
Experience supporting modernization, consolidation, transition-in, or multi-vendor integration initiatives involving multiple applications and stakeholder organizations.
Relevant certifications or credentials such as:
o AWS Solutions Architect Professional
o TOGAF
o CISSP
o Certified Federal Enterprise Architect (CFEA)
o SAFe Architect or equivalent Agile architecture certification
What We Offer:
Guidehouse offers a comprehensive, total rewards package that includes competitive compensation and a flexible benefits package that reflects our commitment to creating a diverse and supportive workplace.
Benefits include:
Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays
Parental Leave
401(k) Retirement Plan
Group Term Life and Travel Assistance
Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance
Health Savings Account, Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
Transit and Parking Commuter Benefits
Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development, Certifications & Learning Opportunities
Employee Referral Program
Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach
Care.com annual membership
Employee Assistance Program
Supplemental Benefits via Corestream (Critical Care, Hospital Indemnity, Accident Insurance, Legal Assistance and ID theft protection, etc.)
Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree or an additional four years of experience in lieu of degree
- 8-10+ years designing, developing, and supporting enterprise-scale application architectures
- Experience architecting cloud-hosted solutions (preferably AWS)
- Experience with enterprise application integration, APIs, web services, and microservices/SOA
- Experience designing highly available, secure, and scalable public-facing systems
- Knowledge of application lifecycle management, DevSecOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, configuration and release management
- Experience supporting federal IT systems and compliance frameworks (ATO, federal standards)
- Strong understanding of database architecture and performance optimization
- Strong understanding of security architecture, risk management, and identity and access management
- Experience with disaster recovery, business continuity, capacity planning, and performance optimization
- Experience developing technical documentation, architecture diagrams, operational procedures, and executive briefings
- Excellent communication skills, able to explain complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Federal or DoD Public Trust (active Public Trust preferred)
- Experience with Grants.gov, federal grants management systems, or large public-facing government applications
- Relevant certifications (AWS Solutions Architect Professional, TOGAF, CISSP, CFEA, SAFe Architect)
- Experience with certificate management, account management, logging, monitoring, backup validation, and disaster recovery planning in cloud environments
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