Senior Application Architect

Job Summary:

The Senior Consultant / Subject Matter Expert 1 provides senior technical leadership in application architecture, modernization sequencing, systems integration, technical debt reduction, and release assurance. This role focuses on assessing and improving enterprise web and application systems while ensuring alignment with organizational standards and federal requirements.

Responsibilities:

• Assess application architecture, dependencies, interfaces, database interactions, technology condition, vulnerabilities, performance, accessibility, reliability, configuration, and documentation.
• Define incremental modernization roadmaps prioritizing mission and technical risk and using approved tools to avoid unsupported big-bang replacements.
• Lead architecture and design reviews for applications, APIs, databases, integration, administration, and migration changes.
• Establish release tiers and readiness criteria aligned with organizational processes for various change types including emergency changes.
• Guide interface controls, regression boundaries, deployment dependencies, rollback criteria, operational acceptance, and post-release verification.
• Prepare technical assessments, trade studies, white papers, roadmaps, and decision-support materials for hardware, software, infrastructure, and integration changes.
• Review deliverables for technical accuracy, completeness, clarity, feasibility, and alignment with requirements and industry practices.
• Support knowledge transfer and validate operational usability of architectures, code, tools, environments, procedures, settings, and documentation.

Required Skills & Certifications:

• Extensive experience in enterprise web and application modernization, systems integration, APIs/web services, databases, legacy technologies, and software delivery.
• Strong analytical skills to evaluate complex technical and functional problems, document tradeoffs, and communicate recommendations to technical and business stakeholders.
• Experience preparing architecture assessments, modernization roadmaps, technical standards, white papers, and implementation-readiness decisions.
• Working familiarity with the relevant technology stack and federal security, privacy, accessibility, data-rights, and delivery expectations.
• Ability to meet organizational suitability, PIV, NDA, and access requirements.

Preferred Skills & Certifications:

• Experience with BEA technology stack and BEA.GOV migration projects.
• Knowledge of industry best practices for application architecture and modernization.
• Advanced certifications related to enterprise architecture, security, or systems integration.

Special Considerations:

• Must comply with federal suitability, PIV, and NDA requirements.
• Role involves critical release assurance activities requiring strict adherence to process and readiness criteria.
• Work includes handling sensitive data and systems requiring high security and privacy standards.

Scheduling:

• Work schedule aligned with project and release timelines; may require flexibility to support emergency changes and release activities.