Chief Architect

$140,000 - $180,000/Yr

DCCA - Ellicott City, MD

Full-time - Senior

Remote - Ellicott City, MD

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Chief Architect at DCCA is responsible for overseeing the design, architecture, and overall structure of systems, platforms, or technology products within the organization. This role requires a blend of technical expertise, leadership, and strategic thinking to ensure that IT infrastructure and software systems align with business goals. The ideal candidate will have experience in healthcare systems implementation and will be expected to lead client presentations while mentoring development teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and ensure the technical architecture is aligned with business goals.
• Establish standards, best practices, and guidelines for development teams to follow.
• Ensure systems can handle growth and perform optimally.
• Evaluate new technologies and make decisions on integrating these into the organization's stack.
• Provide leadership and guidance to development teams, mentor resources and strive for technical excellence.
• Manage differing opinions and negotiate solutions between technical teams and outside groups.
• Keep up with the industry trends and employ new tools/techniques for maintaining a stable and reliable system.

Requirements

• Proven experience: 10+ years developing and implementing enterprise scale applications.
• Experience of working with large-scale and complex implementations.
• Proven experience designing and managing complex IT systems and large-scale architecture solutions (cloud, on-premises, hybrid).
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to design solutions for complex IT challenges.
• Expertise in system integration, data architecture, enterprise application development, and cloud computing.
• Deep understanding of various technologies such as AWS, databases (PostgreSQL, Oracle etc.), microservices (Spring boot), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and DevOps practices.
• Expertise in designing systems with a focus on security and scalability.
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, GitHub, Jenkins, Splunk.

Nice-to-haves

• Proven experience with CMS or Healthcare Experience.
• Experience with architecting enterprise applications on the Cloud.
• Experience in SAFe Agile development methodology.
• DevSecOps, CI/CD.

Benefits

• Disability insurance
• Health insurance
• 401(k)
• Tuition reimbursement
• Paid time off
• Employee assistance program
• Opportunities for advancement
• Life insurance