- Remote, United States
- Remote
- Contract · Senior
- $154K–$278K per year
- 15+ years
The architect leads Summit cloud and data platform architecture, establishes approved technical patterns, and coordinates enterprise architecture, interoperability, security, and compliance decisions with VA stakeholders.
Compensation
Pay Range $154,050.00 - $278,475.00
Responsibilities
- Lead and document the Summit Enterprise Reference Architecture and roadmap across Azure-based data, analytics, integration, and platform services based upon policy-first rules and guardrails.
- Define and steward approved cloud, lakehouse patterns, and data management standards for ingestion, storage, data modeling, interoperability, metadata, access controls, and platform operations.
- Serve as the primary technical interface to VA architecture governance and the Architecture Review Board (ARB); prepare architecture decision records and manage design exceptions.
- Design and review Azure cloud and hybrid integration patterns, including identity, networking, segmentation, routing, trust boundaries, and secure connectivity to adjacent VA platforms.
- Partner with security and compliance leads to align architecture with Zero Trust, NIST 800-53, RMF/ATO, security-impact analysis, and VA enterprise cloud requirements.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline
- Nice to have: VA Summit Data Platform
- Nice to have: VA Enterprise Cloud