Enterprise Application Architect

Role Overview

• Current & Future State Architecture: Document the current architectural state and draft comprehensive future-state target architectures.
• FedRAMP Certification Architecture: Serve as the primary technical driver for FedRAMP authorization. Define clear system boundaries, evaluate and mandate compliant component choices (e.g., FIPS 140-2/3 validated cryptography), and lead technical remediation efforts to address audit findings and POA&Ms (Plan of Action and Milestones).
• Advanced Branch Management & Alignment: Design, implement, and enforce a sustainable branching, merging, and release strategy across commercial and government environments. Prevent codebase drift, manage feature toggling across compliance boundaries, and optimize shared services while maintaining strict FedRAMP isolation requirements.
• Future-Proofing & AI/ML Strategy: Lay the architectural groundwork for future Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) integrations, evaluating where these technologies can drive business value and enhance user experiences in upcoming product builds.
• Business Alignment: Actively align technology initiatives and roadmaps with overarching business goals.
• Lifecycle & Debt Management: Manage technology roadmapping, oversee lifecycle management, and proactively identify and mitigate technical debt incurred by parallel commercial/government product development.
• Strategic Evaluation: Conduct "buy vs. build" analyses, vendor evaluations, and provide architectural input on requirement reviews and Level of Effort (LOE) estimations.
• Telehealth & Real-Time Communications: Architect highly scalable, low-latency integrations for video technology and telephony systems that serve as the backbone of our Telehealth offerings.
• System Optimization: Make actionable recommendations for improvements to platform performance, scalability, stability, and security.
• Architecture Modernization: Guide the strategic transition and considerations between microservices and monolithic architectures.
• Integration & Interoperability: Define API strategy, governance, and system integration patterns to ensure seamless interoperability.
• Data Oversight: Collaborate on data flow architectures and provide oversight for data modeling best practices.
• Government Compliance Enforcement: Translate FedRAMP (Moderate/High), DoD SRG, or other government compliance frameworks into actionable, testable engineering requirements and architectural patterns.
• Healthcare Compliance & Data Privacy: Ensure all architectures strictly comply with HIPAA, safeguarding Protected Health Information (PHI), alongside other data privacy regulations such as GDPR and CCPA.
• Secure Architecture: Drive the implementation of Zero-Trust architecture paradigms.
• Identity Management: Collaborate with security teams on robust Identity and Access Management (IAM) strategies.
• Agile/DevOps Integration: Integrate architectural workflows within Agile and SAFe frameworks.
• Deployment Excellence: Align architectural standards with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps best practices, specifically accounting for deployment pipelines into distinct commercial and GovCloud environments.
• Innovation Testing: Lead the development and evaluation of Proof of Concepts (PoCs) for emerging technologies, including early-stage exploration of AI/ML tooling.
• Business Continuity: Participate in disaster recovery planning and ensure architectures support strict business continuity requirements.
• Cross-Functional Communication: Bridge the communication gap between product management and engineering teams.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Translate complex technical concepts, trade-offs, and strategies into clear language for non-technical stakeholders.
• Mentorship: Mentor senior developers and tech leads, fostering a continuous culture of technical excellence and collaborative problem-solving.

Requirements

• Experience: 8+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3+ years in an enterprise architectural role.
• FedRAMP & GovCloud Experience: Proven, hands-on experience architecting software for FedRAMP authorization, including deep familiarity with government cloud environments (e.g., AWS GovCloud, Azure Government) and boundary isolation requirements.
• Technical Depth: Deep understanding of cloud architectures (AWS/Azure/GCP), API gateways, microservices, complex source control management (SCM) strategies for parallel release tracks, modern deployment pipelines, video/telephony integrations, and data models in a Ruby on Rails environment.
• Emerging Tech: Familiarity or hands-on experience with AI/ML architectural concepts and large language model (LLM) integrations is a strong plus.
• Communication: Exceptional verbal and written communication skills with a track record of influencing executive leadership.
• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Azure
• Cloud
• Google Cloud Platform
• Microservices
• Ruby
• Ruby on Rails