Senior Architect
9th Way Insignia
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $98,153 - $105,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
CloudMicroservices
About the role
- Lead architectural design for modernization of the VA Enrollment System (ES), including migration of legacy monolithic components to microservices.
- Guide modernization efforts supporting consolidation of EDB, IVM, and VistA REE functionality into the modernized ES.
- Architect solutions aligned with VA technical standards, FedRAMP, FISMA, IRS 1075, and VA security/privacy requirements.
- Support enterprise-wide DevSecOps pipelines, CI/CD automation, and cloud-native deployments within VAEC.
- Develop scalable, secure APIs and services enabling Veteran-facing eligibility and enrollment capabilities.
- Provide architectural oversight for data migration, schema modernization, and high-volume transactional processing.
- Work closely with Product Lifecycle Teams to ensure roadmap alignment, sprint execution, and delivery quality.
- Participate in high-priority production incidents, root cause analysis, and enterprise troubleshooting.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related technical field.
- 6+ years relevant experience, with 10 additional years substitutable for education.
- Hands-on experience with large-scale system modernization, cloud migration, or monolith-to-microservices transitions.
- Experience supporting federal systems or highly regulated environments (VA preferred).
- Expertise in secure API design, identity management, MFA, OAuth2/OIDC, and zero-trust principles.
- Experience with DevSecOps tools, observability platforms, and automation pipelines.
- Strong knowledge of system interoperability, scalability, performance optimization, and high availability.
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Voluntary Life Insurance
- 401(k)
- Basic Life A&D
- STD
- LTD
- PTO
- Telehealth
- paid holidays
- FSA
- HSA
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Traveling Assistance
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
microservicesAPI designcloud migrationDevSecOpsCI/CD automationdata migrationschema modernizationtransactional processingidentity managementperformance optimization
Soft skills
leadershipguidancecollaborationtroubleshootingroot cause analysisroadmap alignmentsprint executiondelivery quality