Application Architect

The Senior Application Architect - Federal designs secure, scalable applications supporting DHS CISA's Critical Infrastructure Collaboration Platform. The role defines target architectures, APIs, and integration patterns; plans data migration; and guides agile development teams on modernization, cloud services, and automation. The architect collaborates with security, infrastructure, and analytics teams to align with Federal security, privacy, and accessibility requirements in a hybrid remote/onsite environment.

Responsibilities

• Assess and document current application architectures, data models, interfaces, and dependencies to identify technical debt and risks.
• Define target-state architectures, components, and APIs aligned with CISA enterprise and DHS security requirements.
• Design and guide migration strategies, including validation, rollback, and transition procedures to protect data integrity.
• Evaluate and recommend cloud services and Saa
• S solutions, documenting security, performance, and cost trade-offs.
• Collaborate on secure data pipelines, ETL processes, and integrations with data lakes and analytics platforms.
• Incorporate cybersecurity, Zero Trust, Fed
• RAMP, FISMA, PCII, and Section 508 requirements into application designs.
• Review application code and CI/CD pipelines for architecture alignment and secure development practices.
• Maintain architecture documentation, diagrams, workflows, and support knowledge transfer across teams.

Required Skills

• Enterprise application architecture design
• Cloud-native and hybrid architectures
• Microservices and API design
• Saa
• S integration
• Data migration and ETL pipelines
• Secure application design and Zero Trust
• Identity and access management (OAuth 2.0, SAML)
• Agile software delivery and Dev
• Sec
• Ops pipelines
• Federal security and compliance (FISMA, Fed
• RAMP, ATO)
• Integration with analytics and monitoring tools (Service
• Now, Elastic, Power BI)