ICF
ICF
5,001 – 10,000 Employees
ConsultingGovernmentHealthcare
ICF is a global consulting firm that helps governments, businesses, and communities address complex challenges through data, technology, and program expertise. Founded in 1969, the company works across consulting, government, and healthcare, supporting digital modernization, analytics, resilience and adaptation, energy planning, federal health programs, disaster management, infrastructure, and transportation. Its teams combine advisory services with program implementation to help clients achieve measurable results and strengthen community resilience.

Senior Cloud Architect (Remote, Virginia)

Lead secure cloud modernization, SaaS integration, and DevSecOps delivery for ICF’s federal technology services programs. Shape enterprise architecture across regulated environments.

Description

  • Lead enterprise architecture, platform integration, product engineering, and application modernization across a complex federal technology environment
  • Set technical architecture standards, reference patterns, integration approaches, and governance controls
  • Direct solution design across cloud providers, SaaS and productivity platforms, low-code tools, APIs, workflow automation, data integrations, and secure access patterns
  • Lead architecture reviews and technical decision-making forums
  • Define and govern integrations using APIs, SDKs, webhooks, event streams, serverless functions, workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and automation tools
  • Support infrastructure-as-code, policy-as-code, configuration-as-code, DNS-as-code, and repeatable automation practices
  • Guide product teams through requirements, solution design, backlog refinement, development, testing, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement
  • Work with cybersecurity teams on Zero Trust, access controls, logging, monitoring, encryption, vulnerability remediation, and compliance
  • Coordinate with data teams on governed access, data quality, analytics, reporting, and AI-enabled capabilities
  • Provide technical leadership for platform rationalization, application lifecycle planning, performance optimization, technical debt reduction, and automation
  • Support release planning, change management, technical documentation, implementation plans, architecture diagrams, runbooks, and knowledge transfer
  • Turn complex technical issues into actionable recommendations for client stakeholders, program leaders, product teams, and delivery partners

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree
  • U.S. citizenship required for federal contract work
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a Federal Public Trust clearance
  • At least 15 years of experience leading enterprise architecture, systems integration, platform engineering, application modernization, or product engineering in complex enterprise settings
  • An active certification in cloud, enterprise architecture, security, or IT service management, such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Google Professional Cloud Architect, TOGAF, CISSP, Security+, ITIL Foundation, or an equivalent credential
  • At least 8 years of experience designing and governing cloud, SaaS, PaaS, or enterprise platform solutions across multi-team delivery environments
  • At least 5 years of experience supporting federal technology programs or regulated enterprises with formal security, compliance, or authorization requirements
  • At least 5 years of experience leading technical design for application modernization, platform integration, product development, API integration, workflow automation, or DevSecOps delivery
  • At least 5 years of experience with AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform
  • At least 5 years of experience applying DevSecOps practices, including CI/CD, version control, automated testing, release management, and environment promotion
  • At least 3 years of experience implementing or governing infrastructure-as-code, policy-as-code, configuration-as-code, or comparable automation methods
  • At least 3 years of experience with enterprise SaaS or collaboration platforms, including Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, SharePoint, Teams, Slack, GitHub, ServiceNow, Salesforce, Adobe, DocuSign, or similar tools
  • At least 3 years of experience leading architecture reviews, technical governance boards, engineering standards, or solution design approvals
  • Experience supporting HHS, NIH, FDA, CMS, CDC, or other health-focused federal environments
  • Experience designing SaaS-first or cloud-first enterprise architectures with limited custom infrastructure
  • Experience with Zero Trust, identity-aware access, conditional access, TIC 3.0, NIST 800-53, CIS benchmarks, FISMA, or FedRAMP-aligned environments
  • Experience with Microsoft Power Platform, including Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Dataverse, ALM, environment strategy, and governance
  • Experience with enterprise identity, endpoint management, collaboration platforms, networking, secure access, and platform operations
  • Experience with product management, Agile delivery, backlog governance, release planning, sprint execution, and user-centered product delivery
  • Experience creating architecture diagrams, technical standards, implementation roadmaps, platform governance models, and modernization playbooks

Benefits

  • Equal opportunity employment
  • Reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities, disabled veterans, and sincerely held religious beliefs
  • Confidential support for accommodation requests
  • Benefits information supplied under the Transparency in Coverage Act

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