ResponsibilitiesAbout The Role
The Defense Mission and Health Solutions team, Benefits, Claims & Integrity Solutions Operating Unit seeks a Lead System Architect to support our Health and Human Services (HHS) and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) customer delivery and be part of the leadership for CMS Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (CCIIO) initiatives. The Lead System Architect will support mission‑critical programs within a fast‑paced, highly collaborative environment. In this role, you will define and guide the architectural vision for complex enterprise systems, ensuring alignment with customer objectives, program leadership, and corporate technology strategies. This position works closely with the IT Director to drive modernization initiatives, strengthen architecture governance, and ensure end‑to‑end technical integrity across the enterprise.
What you’ll do:
- Design and maintain the end-to-end technical architecture for a large-scale federal eligibility processing platform, spanning document intake, verification workflows, case management, and consumer communications across cloud and on-premises environments
- Lead architecture decisions for containerized application deployments, ensuring system integrations between BPM platforms, rules engines, OCR/ICR document processing, and federal data exchange APIs meet CMS security and performance requirements
- Evaluate, recommend, and obtain approval for new COTS and AI/ML tools that enhance operational throughput including intelligent document processing, robotic process automation, and analytics platforms while ensuring FedRAMP authorization compliance
- Partner with the IT Director, program leadership, and CMS stakeholders to translate evolving policy requirements (e.g., new federal mandates, regulatory changes) into actionable system design updates with minimal disruption to production operations
- Own the system security posture including ATO maintenance, FISMA compliance, vulnerability remediation SLAs, and data loss prevention controls
- Drive data architecture decisions for a central database, including schema design, file synchronization with federal exchange systems, and API integration with external data sources
Qualifications
Required Skills:
- Minimum of 8 years with BS/BA.
- 8+ years of architect experience of complex enterprise or mission systems within federal, defense, or intelligence environments.
- US Citizen with the ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance.
- Experience creating and managing enterprise architecture artifacts using industry‑standard architecture. frameworks and modeling methodologies.
- Strong background in systems engineering, solution design, and multi‑domain integration.
- Hands‑on familiarity with cloud architectures, microservices, data engineering, and cybersecurity principles.
- Proven ability to partner with senior leaders, including IT Directors, CIO organizations, and program executives.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Active public trust clearance
- Master’s Degree
- PMP, ITIL, SAFe, or cloud certifications
Target Salary Range$135,000 - $216,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual’s experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.
