Chief Solutions Architect
About the job
- A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related technical field is required.
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional certification is required.
- At least 8 years of experience in one or more architecture domains, such as business architecture, solutions architecture, or application architecture, is required.
- Provide overall technical leadership and architectural governance for the application maintenance and modernization program.
- Serve as the principal technical authority across all project teams.
- Establish and maintain enterprise architecture standards.
- Guide the modernization strategy from legacy on-premise systems to AWS cloud services.
- Ensure technical decisions align with immediate operational needs and long-term strategic objectives.
- Collaborate with government technical leads.
- Review and approve major architectural decisions.
- Oversee technical risk management.
- Ensure solutions comply with federal security requirements and agency enterprise architecture standards.
- Optimize solutions for performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.
- Advanced knowledge and experience in current programming languages such as Java, JavaScript including AngularJS, Python, Rust, Go, or PHP.
- Experience defining the architecture of cloud-deployed applications, preferably using AWS.
- Expertise in service-oriented architecture, web services, and application programming interfaces.
- Experience defining and driving SecDevOps best practices within large teams, including AI-assisted code development.
- Experience establishing legacy modernization and migration technical roadmaps for large-scale applications.
- Experience building enterprise-scale applications using service-oriented, microservice, or API-based architectures.
- Experience with event-driven applications using queues, service buses, and related patterns.
- Experience working closely with technical leads, engineering teams, and architecture stakeholders on technical issues and architecture framework capabilities for other development teams.
- Ability to translate technically complex features into plain language for leadership.
- Experience with AI retrieval-augmented generation and large language model implementations, including successfully leveraging agentic AI to accelerate software development.
About the company
GovCIO provides IT services and digital solutions to the U.S. federal government, including IT modernization, digital services, data analytics, cybersecurity, DevSecOps, and management consulting. It wins prime federal contracts and delivers a full range of services through its business units—Health and Civilian Agencies, National Security Solutions, and Veteran and Enterprise Technology Solutions—along with GovCIO Media & Research. The company differentiates itself by expanding through strategic investments and acquisitions, such as WCAS’s stake and the Salient CRGT purchase, and by targeting federal health, national security, and civilian agencies under major contract vehicles like VA T4NG2. Its goal is to help the government transform and modernize its IT landscape with mission-critical technology and analytics capabilities.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
Washington DC, District of Columbia
Founded
2010
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- GovCIO won DHS USCIS NEON II in December 2025, worth $163.4 million.
- GovCIO won a $389.7 million VA IT support order running through August 2027.
- GovCIO secured Navy NETSAFA RSNF support on March 19, 2026, expanding defense reach.
What critics are saying
- GovCIO lost GAO's IT services recompete to SAIC on January 12, 2026.
- VA concentration exposes revenue; SoldierPoint's CCIN and VHA work depend on agency budgets.
- A VA recompete loss could gut GovCIO's core health IT franchise by 2027.
What makes GovCIO unique
- WCAS-backed GovCIO bought SoldierPoint in September 2025, deepening VA telehealth capabilities.
- GovCIO controls VA's $2 billion CCIN telehealth IDIQ after SoldierPoint acquisition.
- GovCIO's 3,487-person workforce and Salient CRGT heritage support broad federal delivery.
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