Applications Architect Lead

Job Overview & Responsibilities

As the Applications Architect Lead you are responsible for defining and overseeing the end-to-end architecture, security design, and technical strategy for a large-scale federal program operating across Non-Classified, IL5, and IL6 environments. This role leads the implementation of federal solutions while maintaining strict compliance with federal security requirements.

The architect provides technical leadership to engineering teams, serves as the primary technical interface with Oracle and the government customer, and ensures solutions align with DevSecOps best practices, mission needs, and accreditation standards. This position requires deep experience supporting federal programs and designing secure, scalable cloud architectures.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead overall system architecture and technical design across Non-Classified, IL5, and IL6 environments.
• Provide technical leadership and direction to engineering and DevSecOps teams throughout the system lifecycle.
• Ensure security architectures and implementations align with OWASP principles and federal cybersecurity requirements.
• Oversee implementation and integration of source code vulnerability scanning technologies within CI/CD pipelines.
• Serve as primary technical interface with Oracle, subcontractors, and government stakeholders, driving alignment and resolving technical issues.
• Design solutions to emulate non-x64 platforms in a virtualized environment.
• Design Hardware-in-the-Loop solutions to validate system performance benchmarks for AI workloads.

Qualifications

• Must be a US citizen with the ability to pass a federal background investigation
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field (or equivalent experience)
• 16+ years of relevant professional experience.
• 4+ years of technical leadership or architecture experience.
• Extensive experience supporting large-scale defense programs.
• Experience designing and implementing architectures that meet Non-Classified, IL5, and IL6 requirements.
• Strong understanding of secure software development and federal compliance processes.
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Professional Architect certification preferred.
• CompTIA Security+ certification preferred.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Familiarity with federal cybersecurity frameworks and OWASP security models.
• Knowledge of DevOps methodologies and compliance-driven development.
• Experience designing AI/ML solutions operating on multi-modal datasets.
• Infrastructure-as-Code development and automation (Terraform, Ansible).
• CI/CD pipeline design and security scanning tool integration.
• Programming/scripting: Python, Ansible, Bash, SQL, PL/SQL.
• Experience with software emulation of hardware systems, including ARM processors.
• Experience benchmarking performance across non-homogeneous platforms.
• Experience with virtualization technologies (QEMU, KVM).
• Strong understanding of Linux and the Linux kernel across CPU architectures.
• Experience designing embedded systems architectures.
• Ability to lead and mentor engineering teams in complex technical environments.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders

Company Overview

Mythics brings together the expertise of Mythics, SpearMC, and Smart ERP to deliver end-to-end Oracle solutions across SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, on-premises technologies, PeopleSoft, and the broader Oracle application portfolio. With decades of specialized Oracle experience, national scale, and award-winning expertise across ERP, HCM, EPM, databases, infrastructure, and cloud, we serve as a single trusted partner throughout the entire technology lifecycle, from strategy and licensing to implementation, integration, managed services, and training. Our teams support organizations in government, defense, healthcare, higher education, and commercial industries, helping customers navigate complex, mission-critical environments with secure, reliable, and transformative solutions.

Why work at Mythics?

Because at Mythics, YOU count! At Mythics, our Corporate Values are at the foundation of everything we do. Our values, Respect – Empathy – Excellence – Fun (REEF), have created an environment that fosters creative thinking, respects your contributions, and accepts nothing less than excellence in serving our customers. At Mythics, you will experience a truly enjoyable corporate culture.

We believe people do their best work when they feel supported. Our benefits and programs are designed to support well-being, financial security, connection, and growth at Mythics, with health, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off and holidays, retirement options with employer matching, and well-being programs. Employees can also connect and contribute through company-sponsored events, employee committees, volunteer opportunities, referral perks, and recognition programs that help build a strong and rewarding workplace.

As federal government contractors and recipients of federal funding, Mythics and Emergent are required to comply with applicable federal drug-free workplace requirements and maintain a drug-free workplace. In support of these requirements, applicable contractual obligations, and company policy, Mythics and Emergent require candidates to successfully complete a pre-employment drug screening. Please note that marijuana, including medical marijuana, remains prohibited under federal law and is included in our pre-employment drug screening panel, subject to applicable law. 

Mythics, LLC is an equal opportunity employer. In accordance with applicable federal, state, and/or local law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, medical condition, veteran status, or other factors protected by law. We offer equal opportunity in compensation, advancement opportunities, and all other terms and conditions of employment. As a federal government contractor, Mythics has developed and maintains a written Affirmative Action Program relating to individuals with disabilities and protected veterans, which sets forth the policies, practices and procedures to which the Company is committed in order to ensure that its policy of nondiscrimination and affirmative action for qualified individuals with disabilities and protected veterans is followed. For those unable to complete an online application, alternative methods are available by contacting [email protected]. For more information about Federal laws prohibiting job discrimination, please read Know Your Rights.