Principal Architect

• 12+ years experience in software engineering, including implementing engineering best practices, iterative/continuous engineering principles
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Math, or other related scientific or technical discipline. With twelve years of general information technology
• All candidates must pass public trust clearance through the U.S. Federal Government. This requires candidates to either be U.S. citizens or pass clearance through the Foreign National Government System which will require that candidates have lived within the United States for at least 3 out of the previous 5 years, have a valid and non-expired passport from their country of birth and appropriate VISA/work permit documentation
• Demonstrated ability to lead architecture for complex cloud, data, analytics, API, AI/ML, or digital platform ecosystems with multiple teams and stakeholders.
• Experience establishing reference architectures, technical standards, architecture governance, decision records, interoperability patterns, and technical trade-off recommendations.
• Working knowledge of cloud architecture, lakehouse or comparable data platforms, governance layers, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, observability, identity and access, API patterns, data sharing, dashboard platforms, and AI/ML enablement patterns.
• Ability to apply security, privacy, accessibility, data-use, Government data-rights, portability, reuse, and transition-readiness constraints to architecture decisions.
• Experience coordinating architecture across product, engineering, data, AI, BI, security, support, and external integration teams in a transparent agile delivery environment.
• Knowledge of federal system delivery expectations such as FISMA, NIST-based controls, FedRAMP-authorized cloud services, ATO support, access reviews, and continuous monitoring.
• Ability to comply with customer-specific security, privacy, accessibility, quality, training, and data-handling requirements for assigned systems and data.

• Experience supporting federal, public sector, healthcare, or other regulated data, analytics, oversight, reporting, or public transparency programs.
• Experience with modern cloud platforms, infrastructure-as-code tooling, lakehouse or comparable data platforms, data governance layers, distributed processing, source control, CI/CD, API services, serverless patterns, secure data-sharing patterns, BI platforms, workflow tools, identity services, observability platforms, AI/ML platform capabilities, model serving, vector search, automated model evaluation, and retrieval-augmented generation patterns.
• Experience with tenant onboarding, federated data participation, governed data exchange, public-facing data services, API factory patterns, metadata maturity, and multi-tier data trust architectures.
• Experience with responsible AI governance, AI capability-gate roadmaps, model serving readiness, AI observability, inference logging, and human oversight for AI-enabled services.
• Hands-on experience building and optimizing data pipelines within the Databricks platform
• Preferred certifications may include cloud solutions architecture, data platform architecture, infrastructure as code, AWS, Databricks TOGAF, SAFe, cloud security, CISSP, FinOps, data architecture, or AI/ML platform credentials.

Working Environment : 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 manager.

Occasional travel for training and project meetings.

It is estimated to be less than 5% per year.

eSimplicity offers a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, 401(k) retirement benefits, paid time off, paid holidays, life and disability insurance, and additional wellness and employee support programs.

Eligibility may vary based on employment status and applicable plan terms.

Reasonable Accommodation: eSimplicity is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities during the application and hiring process.

Applicants who need assistance or an accommodation should contact Human Resources.

Equal Employment Opportunity: eSimplicity is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.