Systems Architect / Technical Lead

Unissant, Inc. delivers innovative capabilities to the agencies that keep our nation healthy and safe. We apply our domain expertise, data acumen, and technology know-how to achieve breakthrough results for our clients. Working collaboratively, we advance missions and careers through a focus on honesty, integrity, and dependability. We continuously look for talent excited to join that effort. To learn more about our exciting organization, please visit www.unissant.com.

We are seeking a System Architect / Technical Lead to join our team and support our client.

The ideal candidate is an experienced hands-on technical leader who provides system architecture, technical direction, and delivery oversight for a complex application program. This individual will guide cross-functional teams through the full software development life cycle and ensure high-quality, secure, scalable technical solutions.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide technical direction to application developers, database developers, testers, business analysts, and other delivery personnel.
• Partner with system owners, business owners, technical teams, and functional teams to design, implement, test, validate, and deploy solutions.
• Define and implement system architecture using sound engineering practices, object-oriented analysis and design techniques, reusable patterns, and modern cloud-based technologies.
• Lead and contribute to coding, unit testing, technical troubleshooting, system integration, operations and maintenance, and enhancement activities.
• Review and approve requirements analysis, technical designs, development work products, and testing artifacts during each release cycle.
• Oversee implementation and deployment activities; ensure the quality, reliability, security, and maintainability of technical deliveries.
• Assess and develop level-of-effort estimates for change requests, defects, enhancements, and other technical tasks.
• Support release planning, scheduling, task assignments, technical risk management, and incident/lessons-learned activities.
• Assess emerging technologies and provide technical recommendations for future initiatives, upgrades, and modernization.
• Mentor junior personnel and promote adoption of AI-assisted development, DevSecOps, automation, and cloud-native engineering practices.
• Model business processes and integrate application capabilities with existing enterprise systems.

Work Experience and Job Skills:

• Minimum 10 years of experience providing technical leadership to a delivery team.
• Minimum 8 years of experience in systems integration, application development, and package implementation.
• Minimum 3 years of experience supporting IT projects of similar size, complexity, and technology environment.
• Demonstrated experience with cloud computing and cloud-based technologies.
• Solid understanding of software engineering disciplines, including requirements, design, implementation, testing, integration, deployment, and operations and maintenance.
• Experience gathering and documenting requirements with business and technical stakeholders.
• Ability to rapidly learn and apply new technologies, strong technical problem-solving, estimation, communication, and mentoring skills.
• Experience leading technical quality reviews and coordinating cross-functional delivery activities.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree required; preferred field of study in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
• Master's degree in a relevant field preferred.

Certificates, Licenses and Registrations:

• Cloud, DevSecOps, agile, architecture, or relevant technical certification is preferred.

Communication Skills:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to translate technical concepts, risks, designs, and recommendations for technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Ability to write clear, concise content and manage sensitive information in a highly confidential manner.

Clearance Requirements:

• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust cle