Lead Solution Architect

Job Description:

Responsible for the overall leadership, architecture, modernization, operation, security, and continuous improvement of a mission-critical, homegrown enterprise application platform that has evolved over the past 20+ years. The platform supports the creation of customized client solutions and proposal generation processes that contributed to over $1B in approved client proposals in FY2026, serving several hundred customers across six regional instances hosted on AWS, Azure, and on-premises infrastructure.

This role combines People Leadership, Solution Architecture, Technical Ownership, Platform Engineering, Security, and Application Modernization responsibilities. The successful candidate will lead a team of application developers while serving as the primary technical authority for the platform's future direction, reliability, scalability, and adoption of emerging technologies including AI.

Essential Job Functions

Technical Leadership & Architecture

• Serve as the technical owner and lead architect for a large-scale business-critical application platform supporting global customer solution development and proposal management.

• Define and maintain the application architecture, ensuring scalability, reliability, maintainability, security, and alignment with business objectives.

• Lead the ongoing modernization of the application from legacy VB.NET technologies to modern C#, .NET 10, and Blazor-based architecture.

• Evaluate, design, and implement new capabilities while ensuring compatibility with existing frameworks, integrations, and business processes.

• Establish architectural standards, coding practices, development frameworks, and technical governance.

Team Leadership & Delivery

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of application developers responsible for the design, development, testing, deployment, and support of the platform.

• Conduct regular one-on-one meetings, coaching sessions, performance discussions, and career development planning for team members.

• Foster a culture of ownership, innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.

• Manage work prioritization, sprint planning, backlog refinement, release schedules, and resource allocation.

• Partner with business stakeholders and cross-functional teams to define requirements and deliver high-value business solutions.

Platform Operations & Reliability

• Own the end-to-end operational health of the application ecosystem across AWS, Azure, and on-premises environments.

• Ensure platform availability, performance, stability, disaster recovery readiness, and business continuity.

• Lead root cause analysis and resolution of production incidents, application defects, and system performance issues.

• Monitor system performance and identify opportunities for optimization across application, database, infrastructure, and integration layers.

• Oversee release management processes, deployment strategies, environment management, and production support activities.

Security & Identity Management

• Lead the modernization of platform authentication and authorization capabilities, including migration to DXC Entra and FusionAuth.

• Ensure compliance with enterprise security policies and industry best practices.

• Manage SSL certificate lifecycle processes, application security configurations, and secure communications.

• Respond to security vulnerabilities, audit findings, penetration test results, and emerging cybersecurity threats.

• Collaborate with security teams to implement proactive risk mitigation strategies.

Data & Infrastructure Management

• Provide technical oversight for database architecture, performance, maintenance, and scalability.

• Ensure effective management of application dependencies, infrastructure components, and supporting services.

• Drive initiatives to improve system resilience, monitoring, observability, backup/recovery capabilities, and operational efficiency.

• Collaborate with infrastructure and cloud teams on hosting strategies, migrations, upgrades, and optimization initiatives.

Integration & Enterprise Solutions

• Design and govern integrations with internal and external enterprise systems.

• Ensure reliable exchange of business data across applications, services, and customer-facing processes.

• Maintain ownership of automated approval workflows, notification services, email communications, and related business automation capabilities.

Innovation & AI Adoption

• Identify and implement opportunities to leverage Artificial Intelligence and automation within the platform.

• Lead exploration of AI-driven solution generation, recommendation engines, proposal optimization, operational efficiency improvements, and enhanced user experiences.

• Evaluate emerging technologies and incorporate them into the platform roadmap where appropriate.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Typically 10+ years of software engineering and application development experience.

• Minimum 5+ years in a technical leadership, architecture, or engineering management role.

• Proven experience leading software development teams in enterprise environments.

• Strong experience with .NET technologies, including C#, ASP.NET, and modern web application frameworks.

• Experience designing and maintaining enterprise application architectures.

• Experience supporting and operating business-critical production systems.

• Strong knowledge of relational database design, optimization, and administration.

• Experience with cloud platforms including AWS and Azure.

• Experience with software development lifecycle (SDLC), Agile methodologies, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps practices.

• Strong troubleshooting, performance tuning, and root cause analysis skills.

• Experience managing application security, authentication, authorization, and vulnerability remediation.

• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and team leadership skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience modernizing legacy enterprise applications to cloud-native and modern technology stacks.

• Experience with Blazor, .NET 10, microservices, and modern web development frameworks.

• Experience implementing or migrating Identity and Access Management solutions, including Microsoft Entra ID and FusionAuth.

• Knowledge of application performance monitoring, observability, and platform engineering practices.

• Experience with AI/ML integration, Generative AI solutions, or intelligent automation platforms.

• Experience managing globally distributed application environments and multi-region deployments.

• Relevant cloud, architecture, security, or software development certifications.

• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

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