Principal Architect

eSimplicity is modern digital services company that delivers innovative federal and commercial IT solutions designed to improve the health and lives of millions of Americans while defending our national interests. Our solutions and services improve healthcare for 100+ million Americans, protect our borders, and defend our country by supporting and innovating with the Air Force, Space Force, and Navy. Our team of 200+ engineers, designers and strategists relentlessly challenge the status quos, build consensus and collaborate to deliver new solutions with an unwavering focus on the user experience from start to finish. 

The Principal Architect monitors technological advancements to ensure solutions are continuously improved, supported, and aligned with industry and company standards and emerging business requirements. They understand the interactions between systems, applications, and services within the environment, and they understand the impact of changes. ThePrincipal Architect ensures performance and reliability, enhances scalability, and meets security requirements. They are skilled across frontend, backend, data, and DevOps development practices and can conduct complex work. 

They are also able to provide input on proposals for new work and contribute to business development efforts by providing practice-specific input. They directly influence our customers toward better outcomes, based on trust and competency, while providing vision for other engineers. They may be expected to manage a medium-to-large team.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in the planning, architecture, and design of customer projects
• Develop and maintain the strategic Cloud IT solutions to address the future needs and plans for enterprise architecture, platforms, technologies, and tools required to sustain a high level of application performance
• Architect and manage a real-time, event-driven system, with observability tools
• Develop secure RESTful API Services
• Build strong customer relationships and delivers customer-centric solutions
• Cultivate innovation allowing for new and better ways for the company to be successful
• Collaborate well with cross functional executive-level peers; able to drive decisions when consensus is lacking
• Develop technical road map and evolve it
• Support efforts to improve data architectures, data pipelines, data security, data models and database designs
• Set and enforce best practices and coding standards that promote code reusability, maintainability, and performance

Required Qualifications:

• Education Required: A bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or other related scientific or technical discipline. With eight years of general information technology experience and at least four years of specialized experience, a degree is not required. 
• Minimum/General Experience: Minimum of 4 years of system architecture experience 
• Minimum of 10 plus YOS 
• 10+ years software engineering experience across object-oriented-programming languages (preferred JavaScript, C#, Python)
• 4+ years of system architecture experience
• AWS Certified, CCIE, CCNA, ITIL

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Strong experience in Javascript (React), C#/.Net (Blazor), Python, SQLServer, and MongoDB
• Thorough understanding of AWS infrastructure and services including VPC (Virtual Private Cloud), Security Groups, IAM (Identity and Access Management), Cloud Formations, EC2, etc. 
• Prior experience developing real-time, event-drivenarchitectures and secure RESTful API Services.
• Experience with networking principles and technologies (DNS, Load Balancers, Reverse Proxies)
• Practical experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, Cloud Formations, Ansible, and similar tools from the network level up through the application provisioning level.
• Knowledgeable with leading CI/CD tools (e.g.Github Actions) and best practices.
• Knowledgeable with leading Observability Best Practices.
• Ability to develop comprehensive project documentation, such as playbooks, how-to docs, design docs, presentations.
• Hands-on knowledge of current technology standards/trends coupled with a desire to continually expand personal knowledge/skills.
• Strong analytical problem-solving ability, and an ability to manage change and cope with complex and ambiguous situations.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills coupled with the ability to tailor communication to all levels of an organization and an ability to establish and maintain relationships with other business and technology leaders.
• Proven ability to work collaboratively with others in cross-functional teams.
• Proven ability to lead architectural improvements through influence 
• Experience with FHIR standards, FHIR profiles, FHIR Questionnaires, or Message Mapping Guide Authoring Tool (MMG AT) specifications is a plus 

eSimplicity supports a remote work environment operating within the Eastern time zone so we can work with and respond to our government clients. Expected hours are 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM Eastern unless otherwise directed by your manager.

Occasional travel for training and project meetings. It is estimated to be 5-15% per year.

Benefits:

We offer highly competitive salary, full healthcare benefits and a flexible leave policy.

Equal Employment Opportunity:

eSimplicity is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, age, status as a protected veteran, sexual orientation, gender identity, or status as a qualified individual with a disability.