Technical Lead (Cloud Application Architect)

ECS is seeking an experienced ***Technical Lead (Cloud Application Architect (Azure, Agile, DevOps)***to work remotely to provide technical direction and engineering support for projects and infrastructure, including data architecture, modeling, design, data management, data security, and system integration. Enabling high-quality UI/UX design solutions for web and mobile applications and products. Please Note: This position is contingent upon contract award.

Solution Architect:

• Providing technical leadership in identifying, deg, and implementing web and mobile application standards as well as investigation of technical alternatives.
• Design, maintain and implement Azure resources, including virtual networks, storage solutions, compute instances, databases, and application services.
• Assist business domain stakeholders with migration "lift and shift" cost-benefit analyses of on-premises vs. cloud-based solutions.
• Create a secure and scalable mobile system architecture that integrates with existing systems and designated partner applications
• Ensure applications are FISMA compliant. Recommend and implement security features as necessary, to adhere to Federal, HHS, NIH, and NIAID security requirements.
• Evaluate and employ software tools that will allow the development and deployment of mobile software using a ‘write-once, run-anywhere' model.

Cloud Migration:

• Provide advisory and technical support for cloud-related application and infrastructure modernization efforts.
• Architect and troubleshoot high availability and resilient solutions using methods, including clustering and failover.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders and development teams to create solutions to take advantage of cloud services and capabilities. (e.g. auto-scaling, serverless architectures, micro-services, containerization, etc.)
• Conducting proof-of-concept and pilot projects to evaluate cloud migration and modernization approaches.
• Assisting SEB in conducting market research on cloud platforms and tools.

Agile Delivery:

• Collaborate with business stakeholders and cross-functional teams to ensure project alignment with business objectives.
• Prepare and present HHS Enterprise Performance Life Cycle (EPLC) stage gate deliverables and presentations to review boards.
• Conduct and/or participate in formal and informal reviews throughout the EPLC life cycle.
• Enable Continuous Integration/ Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines for web and mobile applications.
• Ensure compliance with quality assurance standards, guidelines, and procedures.

Salary Range: $120,000 - $165,000

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 + years of hands-on software development experience deg and developing enterprise applications using Microsoft Tech Stack.
• 5+ Years of experience leading technical teams in Agile environments.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience building large scalable web and mobile based applications using React.
• Experience with utilizing NET Platform (.NET 8) with JavaScript, React and Vue for the front end and Microsoft SQL Server databases for data storage.
• Experience installing, configuring, and integrating custom solutions, COTS, GOTS, and FOSS into a larger collection of services and systems.
• PMP (Project Management Professional) Certification.
• Travel within the Washington DC Metro Area, and CONUS as needed.