Sr Solutions Architect
17 hours ago
Falls Church
Job#: 3024157 Job Description: Title / Position: Solutions Pay: $90-100 Salary Conversion: $180k-200k Location: Hybrid - Falls Church (3x per week on site) Clearance: Must Have Active Secret • Degree: BA/BS, • ServiceNow Certified Systems Administrator Preferred Certification(s): • Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104) or equivalent, • ServiceNow Certified Application Developer, • ServiceNow Certified Implementation Specialist, • Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305), • Azure DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400), • HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate, • Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation, • Clearance: Able to obtain Secret Clearance Requirements General Requirements: • 12+ years of related experience, with 10+ being in leadership roles with progressively increasing scopes of responsibility, • Demonstrable experience presenting complex design and solutions to government customers, • Practical experience implementing DevSecOps practices, Agile methodologies, and associated toolchains, • Hands-on experience leading the end-to-end evaluation of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software and components for technical fit, security, performance, scalability, and integration within complex environment, • Ability to identify and learn new technologies quickly, • Highly organized, detail-oriented, and able to track and manage multiple deliverables and timelines across product teams and task orders, • Excellent communication skills for collaborating with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, • Strong presentation skills with the ability to confidently articulate in-depth technical concepts and recommendations to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, • Proven strong leadership, conflict-resolution, and problem-solving skills, • Strong analytical and debugging skills, • Ability to coach, guide, and mentor junior developers ServiceNow Requirements: • Extensive experience with ServiceNow architecture, development, and best practices, including strong knowledge of the platform's core modules, • Deep proficiency in JavaScript (client-side and server-side), Glide API, HTML, CSS, and AngularJS, • Prior hands-on work with ServiceNow or modern DevOps tooling. Must understand how to provision cloud resources with terraform and ansible using Infrastructure as Code principles and a CI/CD deployment pipeline, • Ability to produce level of estimates and basic deployment plans for ServiceNow functionality, • Demonstrated ability to independently develop technical engineering roadmaps, architecture diagrams, reference architectures, and supporting visuals to drive alignment and communicate long-term direction, • Excellent understanding of the Agile software testing process and lifecycle, from smoke test to integration to production deployment, • Ability to identify, understand, document, and create functionality aligning with customer value streams, • Ability to produce level of estimates and basic deployment plans for ServiceNow functionality Azure Requirements: • Recent experience with Microsoft Azure (preferred) or other major cloud service providers to include both architectural and engineering ownership of the solution, • Demonstratable experience solutioning and driving modernization of legacy applications and architecture end to end in an Azure environment, • Strong skills at translating architecture and engineering plans into deployed cloud architecture and component resources., • Hands-on experience with cloud migration programs, • Proficiency in architecture modeling using SysML or UML, • Experience designing and implementing microservices and API-first architectures Preferred Skills: • Working knowledge of NIST cybersecurity frameworks and controls strongly preferred, • Recent and verifiable experience designing, deploying, or architecting solutions in DoW Impact Level 5 (IL5) and Impact Level 6 (IL6) environments, including familiarity with associated security controls, ATO processes, and classified cloud requirements strongly preferred Client Description • Designs, implements, governs, and maintains the overall architectural framework for ServiceNow solutions, ensuring scalability, security, and alignment with business goals and industry best practices (ITIL, CSDM), • Oversee the deployment, administration, and maintenance of ServiceNow instances, ensuring configuration consistency across development, QA, and production environments, and managing upgrades and performance optimization, • Act as a ServiceNow subject matter expert (SME), providing technical guidance and mentorship to development teams, conducting code reviews, and enforcing architectural standards and governance processes, • Create estimations on effort required to produce ServiceNow functionality, • Serve as the technical owner and subject matter expert for our Azure cloud environment. This “ownership role” is responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining robust, scalable, and secure cloud solutions, • Understand Azure architecture principles and the ability to architect sophisticated solutions, including Virtual Networks (VNETs), networking, and peering configurations., • Lead the implementation of high-availability and scalable solutions across availability zones and regions, while also managing and securing traffic with application firewalls and gateways., • Contribute to critical system integrations, including the effective use of automation and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools such as GitLab, Terraform, and Ansible, • Advise and oversee the software testing process to ensure that all NFRs are clearly tested, • Provide analysis of security protection technologies as necessary, • Collaborate closely with system and software architects and product teams to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize our system and software development lifecycle, • Identify potential risks and issues related to the solution and take appropriate steps to mitigate them, • Provide expert-level support for complex incidents, performing root cause analysis and ensuring platform stability and performance, • Create and maintain comprehensive technical documentation (design specifications, architecture diagrams, process flows) and effectively communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders to create alignment between customers, management, and engineering staff, • Serve as the technical advisor, overseeing all technical aspects of implementations, resolving technical issues, and defining best practices for configuration, scripting, and workflow automation, • Serve as the primary technical face of the organization to key customers and stakeholders, • Proactively ensure customer satisfaction, deeply understand their mission-critical needs and strategic objectives, and drive alignment between customer expectations and the engineering organization’s delivery roadmap to guarantee successful mission outcomes, • Refine, elaborate, and document customer requirements, • Define and document appropriate technologies to satisfy requirements, • Collaborate with engineering teams to solve technical problems and prioritize issues, • Mentor other architects and engineers Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. 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