Systems Architect

About this role

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

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