Principal Architect

eSimplicity

Principal Architect at eSimplicity leading cross-team technical standards and architecture governance for federal data programs. Collaborating with various teams to ensure architectural decisions meet customer objectives and standards.

Posted 7/10/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $101,100 - $150,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own reference architecture, cross-team technical standards, architecture governance and decision-making, interoperability patterns, and major technical trade-off analysis.
Lead applicable technical coverage across cloud and DevSecOps engineering, data engineering, data governance and metadata specialization, BI and analytics development, AI/ML platform engineering, security engineering and compliance, API services, partner integrations, and domain architecture.
Guide architecture for platform-first delivery, approved technology direction, infrastructure as code, governed data trust patterns, API-first reuse, secure data sharing, AI-enabled service patterns, public-facing dashboards, and transition-ready artifact management.
Coordinate with customer stakeholders, cloud and platform partners, security and privacy stakeholders, data owners, product teams, and downstream consumers on architecture reviews, environment changes, source onboarding, integrations, public-facing releases, and major technical decisions.
Develop and maintain architectural artifacts in customer-accessible systems, including reference architectures, decision records, diagrams, standards, runbooks, interface documentation, joint operating agreements, service guides, data-flow documentation, and transition materials.
Evaluate new or materially changed services against security, privacy, accessibility, cost transparency, observability, operational readiness, metadata maturity, AI governance, portability, and reuse criteria.
Support joint operating agreements and cross-platform coordination for source-system and downstream-system interfaces, ingestion lead times, schema and metadata changes, incident boundaries, release dependencies, security and privacy responsibilities, support handoffs, and transition responsibilities.
Promote out-of-the-box, native, reusable, open-source-aware, and portable solutions while minimizing unnecessary proprietary dependencies and avoiding contractor-managed external data systems.

Requirements

What you’ll need

12+ years experience in software engineering
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Math, or other related scientific or technical discipline.
All candidates must pass public trust clearance through the U.S. Federal Government.
Demonstrated ability to lead architecture for complex cloud, data, analytics, API, AI/ML, or digital platform ecosystems with multiple teams and stakeholders.
Experience establishing reference architectures, technical standards, architecture governance, decision records, interoperability patterns, and technical trade-off recommendations.
Working knowledge of cloud architecture, lakehouse or comparable data platforms, governance layers, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, observability, identity and access, API patterns, data sharing, dashboard platforms, and AI/ML enablement patterns.
Ability to apply security, privacy, accessibility, data-use, Government data-rights, portability, reuse, and transition-readiness constraints to architecture decisions.
Experience coordinating architecture across product, engineering, data, AI, BI, security, support, and external integration teams in a transparent agile delivery environment.
Knowledge of federal system delivery expectations such as FISMA, NIST-based controls, FedRAMP-authorized cloud services, ATO support, access reviews, and continuous monitoring.
Ability to comply with customer-specific security, privacy, accessibility, quality, training, and data-handling requirements for assigned systems and data.

Benefits

Comp & perks

medical, dental, and vision coverage
401(k) retirement benefits
paid time off
paid holidays
life and disability insurance
additional wellness and employee support programs

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Hard Skills & Tools

Reference Architecture DevelopmentInfrastructure As CodeCI/CD ImplementationData GovernanceAPI PatternsObservability PracticesData Sharing TechniquesTechnical Trade-Off AnalysisMetadata ManagementAgile Delivery Coordination

Soft Skills

LeadershipCollaborationStakeholder EngagementCommunication

Certifications

Public Trust Clearance