Job Family:Systems Engineering
Travel Required:Up to 10%
Clearance Required:Ability to Obtain Public Trust
As a System Architect, you will lead the technical architecture, modernization, and continuous improvement of the Grants.gov platform and related solutions supporting federal grant-making operations. You will collaborate with federal stakeholders, product teams, engineers, security specialists, and operations personnel to design scalable, secure, and highly available solutions that support mission-critical services for millions of users across the federal grants ecosystem. You will provide architectural leadership for system enhancements, platform modernization, cloud-based services, integrations, security compliance, and operational excellence while supporting the consolidation objectives between Grants.gov and GrantSolutions.
- Lead the development and maintenance of enterprise, solution, application, integration, and platform architectures supporting Grants.gov and related services.
- Design scalable, highly available, secure, and resilient application and infrastructure solutions that support continuous operations and disaster recovery requirements.
- Define architecture roadmaps, modernization strategies, and technical recommendations that improve system performance, availability, maintainability, and cost efficiency.
- Collaborate with development, operations, security, and cloud teams to ensure architectural alignment across platforms, applications, databases, integrations, and hosting environments.
- Evaluate and recommend emerging technologies, automation capabilities, cloud services, AI-enabled solutions, and operational improvements.
- Provide technical oversight for system-to-system integrations, APIs, data exchanges, forms processing, and application workflows.
- Support architecture governance processes, solution reviews, technical documentation, and compliance with federal architecture standards and HHS Enterprise Performance Life Cycle (EPLC) requirements.
- Participate in incident investigations, root cause analyses, capacity planning, performance optimization, and technology risk assessments.
- Support cybersecurity and privacy initiatives, including Authority to Operate (ATO) activities, security documentation, POA&M management, incident response, and compliance requirements.
- Present technical concepts, architecture recommendations, alternatives, and modernization plans to executive, business, and technical stakeholders.
- Develop architecture artifacts, technical management plans, system documentation, and executive-ready presentations that support operational and strategic decision-making.
What You Will Need:- Bachelor's degree . Additional Four(4) years of exp needed in lieu of degree.
- Eight(8) to Ten(10)+ years of experience designing, developing, and supporting enterprise-scale application architectures.
- Experience architecting cloud-hosted solutions, preferably within AWS environments.
- Experience with enterprise application integration, APIs, web services, and service-oriented or microservices architectures.
- Experience designing highly available, secure, and scalable systems supporting public-facing applications.
- Knowledge of application lifecycle management, DevSecOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, configuration management, and release management.
- Experience supporting federal IT systems and compliance frameworks.
- Strong understanding of:
- Application architecture and design patterns
- Database architecture and performance optimization
- Security architecture and risk management
- Disaster recovery and business continuity planning
- Performance and capacity management
- Identity and access management
- Experience developing technical documentation, architecture diagrams, operational procedures, and executive briefings.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Must be able to OBTAIN and MAINTAIN a Federal or DoD "PUBLIC TRUST"; candidates must obtain approved adjudication of their PUBLIC TRUST prior to onboarding with Guidehouse. Candidates with an ACTIVE PUBLIC TRUST or SUITABILITY are preferred.
What Would Be Nice To Have:- Experience supporting federal grants management systems, shared service platforms, or large public-facing government applications.
- Experience with Grants.gov
- Experience with HHS, ACF, CMS, HRSA, NIH, or other federal grant-making agencies.
- Knowledge of HHS Enterprise Performance Life Cycle (EPLC), federal IT governance, ATO processes, security assessment activities, and compliance-driven delivery environments.
- Experience with Grants.gov-like capabilities, including public-facing web applications, applicant submissions, grantor user management, S2S integrations, forms processing, chatbot support, helpdesk escalations, or system status communications.
- Experience supporting cloud-hosted applications, AWS environments, application platform security, certificate management, account management, logging, monitoring, backup validation, or disaster recovery planning.
- Experience supporting modernization, consolidation, transition-in, or multi-vendor integration initiatives involving multiple applications and stakeholder organizations.
- Relevant certifications or credentials such as:
- o AWS Solutions Architect Professional
o TOGAF
o CISSP
o Certified Federal Enterprise Architect (CFEA)
o SAFe Architect or equivalent Agile architecture certification
The annual salary range for this position is $130,000.00-$216,000.00. Compensation decisions depend on a wide range of factors, including but not limited to skill sets, experience and training, security clearances, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs.
What We Offer:Guidehouse offers a comprehensive, total rewards package that includes competitive compensation and a flexible benefits package that reflects our commitment to creating a diverse and supportive workplace.
Benefits include:
- Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
- Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays
- Parental Leave
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- Group Term Life and Travel Assistance
- Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance
- Health Savings Account, Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Transit and Parking Commuter Benefits
- Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
- Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development, Certifications & Learning Opportunities
- Employee Referral Program
- Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach
- Care.com annual membership
- Employee Assistance Program
- Supplemental Benefits via Corestream (Critical Care, Hospital Indemnity, Accident Insurance, Legal Assistance and ID theft protection, etc.)
- Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus
