Lead Solution Architect, Sikich

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline
• 12–15 years of progressive experience in solution architecture, systems engineering, or enterprise technology roles
• Experience in regulated or compliance-driven environments (e.g., healthcare, public sector). Preference given to CMS experience
• Demonstrated experience designing and governing architectures across cloud-based, distributed, and security-sensitive environments
• Strong understanding of modern development practices including agile delivery, DevSecOps, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code
• Proven ability to balance architectural rigor with pragmatic delivery needs
• Values driven – You embody and model absolute integrity and servant leadership and you have a bias for action and continuous innovation
• Uncompromising problem solver – You see opportunities in every business challenge and can develop, articulate and implement solutions
• Collaboration – You are a relationship builder across all levels of the organization and across all business units
• Instills trust – You do what you say, without ego, and you follow through on commitments consistently and credibly
• Impact & influence – You are relentlessly focused on making a difference and can gain support for ideas, proposals and solutions. You get others to act, with or without formal authority, to advance initiatives and objectives

Desirable

• The Lead Solution Architect serves as the senior technical authority across a portfolio of modernization, shared services, and security-focused initiatives in support of our client. This role is responsible for defining and governing end-to-end solution architectures that balance business needs, technical feasibility, security requirements, and long-term sustainability
• The Lead Solution Architect provides strategic direction, architectural oversight, and hands-on guidance to ensure solutions are scalable, reusable, secure, and aligned with enterprise goals
• This position operates at the intersection of enterprise architecture, shared technical enablement, and security engineering, providing cohesion across teams and ensuring that technical decisions drive measurable value
• Define and maintain solution and architectural roadmaps that align modernization efforts with organizational strategy and future-state objectives
• Evaluate emerging technologies, architectural patterns, and tooling to inform strategic investment decisions and innovation initiatives
• Reduce technical debt by guiding system evolution toward standardized, interoperable, and cloud-optimized architectures
• Provide architectural guidance and decision support to leadership through trade studies, impact analyses, and solution options
• Lead the design and adoption of shared technical solutions, reusable components, automation frameworks, and DevSecOps capabilities across teams
• Partner with delivery leadership to ensure shared services are operationalized, adopted, and embedded into delivery pipelines rather than remaining isolated assets
• Establish architectural standards, reference designs, and best practices that improve consistency, delivery velocity, and maintainability
• Serve as a technical escalation point for cross-team dependencies, integration challenges, and complex design decisions
• Ensure security is embedded into solution designs from inception, balancing compliance, risk mitigation, and delivery efficiency
• Collaborate with security engineering and compliance teams to align architectures with cloud security best practices, defense-in-depth principles, and regulatory expectations
• Guide secure cloud migrations, identity and access patterns, and security tooling integration into development and deployment pipelines
• Support ongoing authorization, vulnerability management, and continuous security improvement through architectural direction
• Act as a trusted technical advisor to program leadership, product managers, engineers, and security stakeholders
• Provide architectural oversight across multiple teams and workstreams, ensuring alignment without constraining team autonomy
• Mentor architects and senior engineers, raising overall architectural maturity across the organization
• Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences