The Role
Lead architecture and engineering for a strangler-fig modernization: sustain a legacy Java/SQL Server/SAS estate while building a cloud-native Kubernetes microservices platform (Spring, Kafka/ Debezium, NiFi, Elasticsearch, React). Govern cross-vendor open-source contributions, enforce security and quality gates, support jurisdiction migrations, chair design reviews, and serve as final technical escalation for production incidents.
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We are seeking a Technical Lead / Solution Architect to own the technical direction of a strangler-fig modernization: a legacy Java estate on one side, a Kubernetes and Kafka cloud platform on the other, and live users depending on both. This position offers architecture-level ownership of a widely adopted, open-source public health platform.
About This Role
As Technical Lead, you own the technical approach across both halves of a strangler-fig modernization: sustaining a legacy estate (Java application server on Windows, SQL Server, SAS, and integration-engine interfaces) while expanding its cloud-native successor (Kubernetes on AWS and Azure provisioned with Terraform and Helm, Spring microservices, Kafka and Debezium pipelines, Elasticsearch, NiFi, Keycloak, and a React front end). The codebase ships as open source, and multiple organizations contribute to it, which makes architecture governance a daily discipline rather than a document.
What You'll Do
Own the architecture
What You Bring
Logistics and Classification
Salary Information
We are seeking a Technical Lead / Solution Architect to own the technical direction of a strangler-fig modernization: a legacy Java estate on one side, a Kubernetes and Kafka cloud platform on the other, and live users depending on both. This position offers architecture-level ownership of a widely adopted, open-source public health platform.
About This Role
As Technical Lead, you own the technical approach across both halves of a strangler-fig modernization: sustaining a legacy estate (Java application server on Windows, SQL Server, SAS, and integration-engine interfaces) while expanding its cloud-native successor (Kubernetes on AWS and Azure provisioned with Terraform and Helm, Spring microservices, Kafka and Debezium pipelines, Elasticsearch, NiFi, Keycloak, and a React front end). The codebase ships as open source, and multiple organizations contribute to it, which makes architecture governance a daily discipline rather than a document.
What You'll Do
Own the architecture
- Set and defend the technical approach for decomposing legacy functions into microservices without breaking users in production
- Govern architecture across a multi-vendor codebase, including reviewing and integrating code merges from other contributors
- Keep every component deployable on multiple cloud providers without modification, per contract requirements
- Write and maintain architecture decision records so decisions outlive the people who made them
- Guide development teams across Java/Spring services, the React UI, data pipelines (Kafka, Debezium, NiFi, Elasticsearch), and SQL Server persistence
- Direct the technical side of record matching, electronic case reporting, and configuration tooling modernization workstreams, completing in-progress work
- Maintain a strong security posture: current dependencies, urgent vulnerability remediation on defined clocks (15 days critical, 30 days high), and audit-ready evidence
- Own technical quality gates: unit test, static analysis, dependency, container, and infrastructure scanning enforced before merge and release
- Work with the Public Health Informatician and Epidemiology SME so architecture decisions serve surveillance workflows
- Support migration engineering for multiple jurisdiction onboardings per year, including environment setup and configuration validation
- Advise the program manager on technical feasibility during sprint planning and release sequencing
- Chair design reviews and adjudicate pull requests, including cross-vendor merges
- Review pipeline health and scan results with the DevSecOps lead; triage new vulnerabilities against remediation clocks
- Serve as the final technical escalation for production incidents behind the help desk tiers
- Pair with workstream leads on the hard problems: matching algorithm integration, event pipeline resilience, legacy interface quirks
- Keep the public demonstration environment current with the latest general availability release
- Publish and refresh engineering standards (branching, build, artifact, signing, scanning) on a quarterly cadence
What You Bring
- Master's degree and at least 8 years of relevant experience, or Bachelor's with equivalent substitution
- Hands-on architecture ownership of Kubernetes-based microservice platforms (EKS or AKS, Terraform, Helm)
- Depth in Java/Spring and event-driven architectures (Kafka or equivalent), plus production experience with search or pipeline tooling such as Elasticsearch and NiFi
- Experience sustaining legacy Java estates alongside modernization work
- Open-source project delivery, ideally in government contexts
- Prior work on health or public health data systems; HL7 exposure
- Windows container and SQL Server operational experience
- Section 508 and accessibility-aware front-end engineering
Logistics and Classification
- Location: remote (contractor facility), with core-hours availability 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM ET.
- Occasional domestic travel to client and stakeholder sites.
- All personnel must be able to obtain a federal background investigation commensurate with position sensitivity and a PIV credential. No security clearance is required.
- This position is contingent upon contract award, with an anticipated start in October 2026.
Salary Information
- $155,000.00 to $170,000.00 - commensurate with experience and skillset
Skills Required
- Master's degree and at least 8 years of relevant experience, or Bachelor's with equivalent substitution
- Hands-on architecture ownership of Kubernetes-based microservice platforms (EKS or AKS), Terraform and Helm
- Depth in Java and Spring, and event-driven architectures (Kafka or equivalent); production experience with Elasticsearch and NiFi
- Experience sustaining legacy Java estates alongside modernization work
- Core-hours availability 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM ET and occasional domestic travel to client/stakeholder sites
- Ability to obtain a federal background investigation and a PIV credential
- Open-source project delivery experience, ideally in government contexts
- Prior work on health or public health data systems; HL7 exposure
- Windows container and SQL Server operational experience
- Section 508 and accessibility-aware front-end engineering
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The Company
What We Do
Development InfoStructure, LLC. (Devis) is a leading provider of IT consulting services and solutions to the Federal, State and Local Governments, as well as the international development community. Devis helps maximize your return on IT investment by: 1) working with the best-adapted programming languages, databases and other solutions for your specific project; 2) actively supporting the open source community; and 3) using and promoting open technology standards. Devis has extensive experience with world wide software deployments and support. Our systems operate in more than 80 countries, and in every federal department. Devis-built systems involve the full vertical spectrum of users from data entry clerks to Governement managers to Congress
