Enterprise System Architect IV (Tech Lead)

The Enterprise System Architect IV (Tech Lead) shall serve as the senior technical authority for the enterprise website hosting platform. This role is responsible for establishing and governing the platform's architectural vision, guiding engineering teams, ensuring technical integrity across all environments, and driving modernization and optimization efforts in alignment with federal cloud hosting, security, and digital service requirements.

• Provide senior-level architectural leadership for the design, development, and evolution of the enterprise website hosting platform, including cloud hosting, multi-tenant architecture, CMS components, platform automation, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Serve as the technical lead for platform engineering teams, providing hands-on architectural guidance, reviewing complex solutions, and ensuring alignment with established standards and best practices.
• Develop and maintain the system architecture for the hosting environment, including environment topology, platform services, integrations, deployment patterns, and performance optimization strategies.
• Collaborate with cloud hosting teams to ensure the platform meets requirements for availability, scalability, security, and compliance with federal policies.
• Lead technical decision-making for Drupal platform design, environment configuration, module and code integration, and modernization initiatives.
• Oversee security integration, including adherence to FedRAMP, ATO requirements, vulnerability remediation, platform hardening, and security monitoring.
• Guide the implementation of DevSecOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, automated testing, environment configuration, and release management.
• Conduct architectural reviews, technical assessments, and risk evaluations for proposed platform enhancements, application onboarding, and system integrations.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, data flows, environment configurations, and system interface specifications.
• Promote engineering best practices, and support knowledge transfer across the team and with government stakeholders.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 10+ years of experience in enterprise system architecture, cloud architecture, web platform engineering, or equivalent.
• Demonstrated experience architecting and leading complex website hosting platforms, including cloud-hosted CMS environments (Drupal experience preferred).
• Expert-level knowledge of cloud environments (Azure preferred), including compute, networking, security, automation, monitoring, and DevSecOps toolchains.
• Strong experience leading technical teams, making architecture decisions, and guiding complex multi-system integrations.
• Knowledge of federal security, ATO, FedRAMP requirements, and enterprise governance standards.
• Relevant certifications preferred (e.g., Azure Architect Expert, TOGAF, CISSP, Drupal certification, or equivalent).