DescriptionAVER is seeking an experienced
Senior Solutions Architect to provide solutions architecture and technical leadership to design, integrate, optimize, deploy, and sustain complex data-driven applications and platforms while ensuring development activities, system performance, data quality, and delivery priorities align with mission objectives. Join a collaborative team who values AVER's mission, focus, and culture of delivering exceptional client service with great people and transformative technology solutions that ensure Government mission success.
Responsibilities Include:- Lead the design, development, integration, deployment, and sustainment of complex data-driven applications, systems, and reporting platforms
- Provide solutions architecture expertise to align technical solutions with mission objectives, operational requirements, and strategic priorities
- Coordinate daily development activities, including priorities, assignments, schedules, dependencies, risks, and deliverables
- Design and maintain scalable, secure, and reliable architecture for application and data environments
- Develop and optimize data integration solutions, including ETL/ELT processes, automated workflows, and enterprise data pipelines
- Architect and support data lakes, data fabrics, and related technologies to enable efficient data access and analytics
- Develop, optimize, and maintain advanced SQL solutions using Redshift, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and similar platforms
- Use Python, Java, and similar programming languages to develop, enhance, and automate system capabilities
- Configure, maintain, and troubleshoot infrastructure supporting applications, databases, reporting tools, and mission systems
- Integrate databases, data lakes, dashboards, and reporting environments to ensure reliable data availability
- Monitor and improve system performance, scalability, and reliability through tuning and optimization
- Implement data quality controls to ensure the accuracy, consistency, and integrity of enterprise data
- Support software testing, system validation, deployment, and release activities to ensure successful solution implementation
- Collaborate with stakeholders, developers, data engineers, and program teams to define technical requirements and solution approaches
- Identify and resolve system, application, data, and integration issues to minimize disruptions and improve the user experience
- Develop and maintain technical documentation, architecture designs, deployment procedures, and system support materials
- Provide technical leadership for modernization initiatives, emerging technologies, and continuous improvement efforts
- Communicate project status, technical risks, dependencies, and recommendations to leadership and stakeholders
- Ensure systems operate efficiently, accurately, securely, and reliably across mission, reporting, and operational environments
- Support the modernization, enhancement, and sustainment of enterprise applications, data platforms, and reporting capabilities
Education Requirements: - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or relevant technical field
Experience Requirements: - 15+ years of professional work experience within data analysis, assessment and/or reporting
- Experience designing, integrating, modernizing, or sustaining data-driven applications, systems, or reporting platforms
- Experience developing data integration solutions, including ETL/ELT processes, automated workflows, or enterprise data pipelines
- Experience developing and optimizing SQL solutions using platforms such as Redshift, Oracle, or PostgreSQL
- Experience using Python, Java, or similar programming languages to develop, enhance, or automate system capabilities
- Experience configuring, maintaining, or troubleshooting infrastructure supporting applications, databases, reporting tools, or mission systems
- Experience independently leading high-visibility, mission-critical technical projects from solution design through deployment and sustainment
Desired Requirements: - Excellent collaboration skills and the ability to work in a team environment
- Ability to comprehend advanced technical concepts
- Experience supporting the Federal Government, such as the Department of Homeland Security, is preferred
Location: - Springfield, VA
- REMOTE, Available for ad hoc, on site delivery, required
Security Requirements: - Ability to obtain and maintain a government clearance (Public Trust)
- This role supports a government agency which requires U.S. citizenship
