Application Architect

The Application Architect is responsible for guiding the development and management of a portfolio of data solutions. This includes designing, developing, maintaining, and troubleshooting CSBS systems such as shared infrastructure, API integration, and application services. The role specializes in translating business requirements into cloud-based application and data solutions through collaboration with product support teams, IT engineers, system administrators, vendors, and consultants.
Key responsibilities include identifying and implementing data improvements to achieve business goals, maintaining application and data roadmaps, coordinating dependencies, setting priorities, conducting Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) ceremonies, managing risks, and supporting data architecture objectives.
The Application Architect will work with internal and external implementation teams to establish and drive application and data strategies, ensuring alignment with program delivery objectives and seamless project integration. This includes monitoring and collaborating with CSBS teams and technology vendors to achieve program goals while maintaining proper controls and oversight.
An effective Application Architect brings extensive experience with enterprise systems and expertise in leveraging current and emerging IT solutions to achieve business outcomes. The role requires the ability to distill complex requirements into actionable tasks, execute independently, and deliver results in a timely manner. The individual must demonstrate strong situational awareness, tact, and composure under pressure or in unpredictable situations.

Essential Duties
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty and responsibility satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable an individual with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Other duties may be assigned to meet business needs.
• Evaluate business requirements for projects and programs.
• Coordinate activities and translate design concepts to IT operations.
• Support engineering staff in Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA), product evaluations, and proof of concepts (POC) activities when reviewing technology alternatives.
• Provide expert consultation and support of full-lifecycle cloud engineering.
• Recommend enterprise cloud system designs based on business drivers, capabilities, and technology solutions.
• Provide technical leadership and advise on designs for application solutions, including design reviews, planning, and implementation.
• Lead staff tasked with engineering and implementation of technology solutions.
• Collaborate with engineering staff and cross-functional teams to identify and recommend technical direction for a multi-account, multi-region, highly available, and automated AWS infrastructure.
• Monitor and evaluate the current-state IT data portfolio to identify compliance issues, detect deficiencies, and recommend improvements to the architecture.
• Develop and adhere to technical standards, specifications, and best practices aligned with Enterprise Architecture standards for data architecture.
• Review and contribute to data architectural and system design documents.
• Participate in technical review boards to evaluate and validate data services recommendations and support the selection of software, cloud services, and other IT technologies.
• Direct and assist infrastructure and application development workstreams to identify and evaluate data tools that best fit requirements and achieve business outcomes.
• Lead architectural discussions and design exercises to build and automate large-scale data migration.
• Plan and design data migration processes to ensure data integrity, completeness, and security.
• Architect, design, and oversee the development of the database mappings for operations, reporting, and analytics.
• Evaluate new and current database systems based on business requirements.
• Ensure data integrity and security across end-to-end solutions.
• Design database architectures, including data lakes and lakehouses.
• Design data pipelines from external sources and internal data pipelines, establishing a 'single source of truth' by data domain.
• Use cutting edge cloud and data technologies to help federal agencies solve challenging problems through innovative technology solution.
• Apply DevSecOps implementation models for multi-year program development and AWS cloud implementation.
• Provide expert-level guidance on data architecture and AWS services.
Additional Responsibilities
• Attend and host meetings to provide support in the form of targeted agendas, meeting notes, communications, and follow-up delivery.
• Maintain relevant and professional knowledge via in-house training, online