Principal Solutions Architect - Maximus Services, LLC
Mclean, VA 22101
About the Job
We are looking for a Principal Solutions Architect with experience architecting, developing, and implementing enterprise applications. The Ideal candidate will have a wide range of experience architecting solutions on J2EE, web-based frontend frameworks, and a variety of open-source technology platforms across N-tier architectures. The individual will have experience to operate independently and demonstrate experience leading/guiding a team to architect, develop, and implement business applications.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
•Engage with internal teams to understand and architect technical solutions, facilitate solutions design and manage implementations.
•Participate in the requirements gathering sessions to understand business needs and provide inputs to the technical requirements.
•Review, guide and support RFIs, RFPs and RFQs, response development including writing of whitepapers and concept development.
•Provide technical solution support during proposal process, to include technology stack, solution architecture, and implementation methodology.
•Develop and provide presentations and demonstrations of technology solutions to both internal and external stakeholders as needed. The candidate must be comfortable presenting technical solutions to internal and external stakeholders.
•Design and develop specific solutions leveraging technologies and design practices that enable a secure, scalable, sustainable, extensible and flexible solution.
•Contribute to the design and architecture of software and infrastructure to ensure projects meet goals and should be able to clearly articulate and present the implications of design/architectural decisions, issues and plans to leadership.
•Review the solution in the implementation and post deployment phases, to validate that the final solution matches the original approved design and architecture.
•Work with engineering team to integrate approved solutions into the existing infrastructure and proactively identify associated potential risks and pitfalls involved, translate technical needs, and remove technical barriers.
•Responsible for recommending and developing technical architectures, tools and processes that support the automation of environment management, build, testing, deployment and support processes.
•Assist with builds and design of high-level architecture documentation and roadmap
•Collaborate with other teams in the organization to define supporting infrastructure and software tools needed to enable DevOps practices in a large-scale environment.
•Develop reusable patterns and encourage innovation that will enable team velocity.
•Learn and analyze new technologies and industry best practices to identify suitability for adoption by the organization.
Minimum Requirements:
•Bachelor's degree required in the field of computer science or equivalent. Master's degree a plus.
•The candidate must have over 10 years of experience designing & implementing enterprise solutions with working knowledge across numerous technology platforms.
•Strongly preferred the candidate has over 15 years of experience in J2EE, with a strong focus on the Spring Boot framework; .net framework experience a big plus; C++ nice to have.
•The candidate must have over 10 years in open-source technology-based development.
•The candidate must have over 5 years in web frontend framework experience.
•Experience across many of the following areas (listed in priority): N-Tier applications, Distributed Computing, Databases & Storage, Data Analytics Cloud Architecture, eCommerce, Application Containerization & Container Orchestrations, DevOps, Enterprise Architecture, Agile development, Robotic Process Animation (RPA), Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT), BlockChain, Low Code Platforms, and Digital Transformation & Application Modernization
•Strong working knowledge of Enterprise Software Design Patterns & Cloud Software Architecture; AWS experience required; Azure experience a big plus
•Works on significant and unique issues where analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangibles.
•Consistently works on complex assignments requiring independent action and a high degree of initiative to resolve issues.
•Exercises independent judgement in methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
•Demonstrated ability to build trusted advisor relationships with clients
•Experience supporting sales, pre-sales and business development is a key requirement
•Individual contributor who oversees large, technically complex projects.
•Knowledgeable of emerging trends and may contribute to and influence best practices within discipline.
•Great oral and written communications
Job Summary
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Determine optimal architecture to support business requirements and solve highly complex technical challenges.
- Keep up with industry trends and development and contribute to ongoing R&D.
- Guide and mentor architects and engineers establishing and maintaining architecture of highly complex solutions.
- Produce solution architecture and estimates to support initiative proposals and business development.
- Contribute to standards and approaches for architecture of enterprise data solutions.
- Optimize overall data/information flow by reducing redundancy and enabling accessibility within security boundaries.
- Identify data-related business requirements and service standards and translate these into actionable architecture design.
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a technology related field, e.g., Computer Science, Data Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, or another relevant field.
- Bachelor's degree and 10-12 years of relevant experience or equivalent combination of education and experience required.
- 10-12 years of technical experience.
- 10+ years of technical experience in a data-centric area, such as: enterprise data solutions, data architecture, data integration.
- 3+ years of related technical experience in a lead or architect role.
- Advanced technical and business knowledge of enterprise data solutions.
- Theoretical and practical knowledge of cloud-based and cloud-native systems and applications.
- Strong relationship management skills and the ability to effectively communicate (including written, verbal, and visual) at all organizational levels: customer, team member, management, and executive.
- Understanding of enterprise business concepts, including processes, capabilities, enabling technologies, and governance.
- Extensive experience contributing to technical initiatives supporting a large organization.
- Ability and willingness to undertake a wide variety of challenging tasks.
- Superior decision making and critical thinking ability.
Education and Experience Requirements
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MAXIMUS Introduction
Since 1975, Maximus has operated under its founding mission of Helping Government Serve the People, enabling citizens around the globe to successfully engage with their governments at all levels and across a variety of health and human services programs. Maximus delivers innovative business process management and technology solutions that contribute to improved outcomes for citizens and higher levels of productivity, accuracy, accountability and efficiency of government-sponsored programs. With more than 30,000 employees worldwide, Maximus is a proud partner to government agencies in the United States, Australia, Canada, Saudi Arabia, Singapore and the United Kingdom. For more information, visit https://www.maximus.com.
EEO Statement
EEO Statement: Active military service members, their spouses, and veteran candidates often embody the core competencies Maximus deems essential, and bring a resiliency and dependability that greatly enhances our workforce. We recognize your unique skills and experiences, and want to provide you with a career path that allows you to continue making a difference for our country. We're proud of our connections to organizations dedicated to serving veterans and their families. If you are transitioning from military to civilian life, have prior service, are a retired veteran or a member of the National Guard or Reserves, or a spouse of an active military service member, we have challenging and rewarding career opportunities available for you. A committed and diverse workforce is our most important resource. Maximus is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Maximus provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status or disabled status.
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Maximus compensation is based on various factors including but not limited to job location, a candidate's education, training, experience, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value analysis including seniority and merit systems, as well as internal pay alignment. Annual salary is just one component of Maximus's total compensation package. Other rewards may include short- and long-term incentives as well as program-specific awards. Additionally, Maximus provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and paid time off. Compensation ranges may differ based on contract value but will be commensurate with job duties and relevant work experience. An applicant's salary history will not be used in determining compensation. Maximus will comply with regulatory minimum wage rates and exempt salary thresholds in all instances.
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USD $190,000.00/Yr.
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