By Light Professional IT Services

Chief Solution Architect

By Light Professional IT Services • $130K — $180K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
1 month ago
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related technical field
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional certification
  • Minimum 8 years' experience in one or more architecture domains (e.g., business, solutions, application)
  • Advanced knowledge of current programming languages (e.g., Java, JavaScript, Python, Rust, Go, PHP)
  • Experience defining architecture for cloud applications, preferably AWS.

Responsibilities

  • Provide overall technical leadership and architectural governance for application maintenance and modernization.
  • Establish and maintain enterprise architecture standards in alignment with strategic objectives.
  • Guide the modernization strategy from legacy systems to AWS cloud services.
  • Collaborate with government technical leads on major architectural decisions and risk management.
  • Ensure solutions comply with federal security requirements and optimize for performance and cost-effectiveness.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to lead and innovate in cloud architecture transition.
  • Work in a collaborative environment with government and technical stakeholders.
  • Engagement in cutting-edge projects involving AI-assisted development.
  • Exposure to best practices in SecDevOps and large-scale application architectures.
Full Job Description
Responsibilities

  • The Chief Solution Architect will provide overall technical leadership and architectural governance for the application maintenance and modernization program, serving as the principal technical authority across all project teams.
  • This individual will establish and maintain enterprise architecture standards, guide the modernization strategy from legacy on-premise systems to AWS cloud services, and ensure technical decisions align with both immediate operational needs and long-term strategic objectives.
  • The Chief Architect will collaborate closely with government technical leads, review and approve major architectural decisions, oversee technical risk management, and ensure that all solutions comply with federal security requirements and GSA enterprise architecture standards while optimizing for performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.


Required Experience/Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related technical field
    AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional certification
  • Minimum 8 years' experience in one or more architecture domains (e.g., business architecture, solutions architecture, application architecture)


Preferred Experience/Qualifications

  • Advanced knowledge and experience in one or more current programming languages
    (e.g., Java, JavaScript (including AngularJS), Python, Rust, Go, or PHP)
  • Experience defining the architecture of cloud deployed applications (AWS preferred)
  • Expertise in service-oriented architecture, web services, and Application Programming
    Interfaces
  • Experience defining and driving SecDevOps best practices within large teams, including
    AI assisted code development
  • Experience establishing legacy modernization and migration technical roadmaps for large
    scale applications
  • Experience building applications using service-oriented, microservice, and/or API based
    architectures at an enterprise scale
  • Experience with event-driven applications using queues, service bus and other related
    patterns
  • Experience in working closely with technical leads, engineering teams and architecture
    stakeholders for technical issues and architecture framework capabilities for use by other
    development teams
  • Ability to translate technically complex features into plain language for leadership
  • Experience with AI RAG/LLM implementations and experience implementing and successfully leveraging agentic AI to accelerate software development


Special Requirements/Security Clearance

  • Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust

About By Light Professional IT Services

By Light Professional IT Services is a provider of full lifecycle information technology and telecommunications solutions to the federal government and commercial clients. The company provides services in the areas of cybersecurity, cloud computing, application development, network engineering, and strategic consulting. By Light has been recognized as one of the fastest-growing private companies in the United States by Inc. Magazine and has been named a top workplace by The Washington Post.
Learn more about By Light Professional IT Services
Size
1,500 employees
Industry
Information Technology
* Ladders Estimates

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