[Hiring] Systems Technical Director @IIIIIIUS

Role Description

At ICF Next, we are fearless in finding new ways to solve problems, relentless in making sure it pays off for our clients and committed to making a positive change in the world. Join our community of mission-driven creatives, communicators, strategists, and technologists to challenge the status quo.

You'll serve as the senior engineering leader for a cross-functional program that includes:

• Engineering team leads
• Software engineers
• Solution and cloud architects
• Database administrators
• DevSecOps engineers
• Quality assurance specialists
• User experience professionals
• Business analysts
• Product managers
• Data analysts
• Accessibility and security specialists
• Behavioral health subject matter experts

We partner with federal stakeholders to operate and modernize a mission-critical data collection and performance reporting platform used by grantees and program staff.

In this program-level role, you will serve as the overall technical authority for platform operations and maintenance and for development, modernization, and enhancement. You will:

• Connect architecture, delivery, operations, and modernization into a coherent plan
• Guide multiple engineering workstreams and team leads
• Make and document consequential technical decisions
• Establish shared standards
• Ensure releases are secure, testable, supportable, and aligned with program priorities

A key part of the work is balancing reliable operation of the current .NET platform with:

• Incremental modernization
• Improved cloud and deployment practices
• Stronger data quality
• Better observability
• A sustainable path for reducing technical debt

If you accept this position, you should note that ICF does monitor employee work locations, blocks access from foreign locations/foreign IP addresses, and prohibits personal VPN connections.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, information systems, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
• 7+ years architecting, delivering, or overseeing resilient production enterprise applications and data platforms
• 5+ years architecting APIs, enterprise integrations, or distributed application services across modern application stacks
• 3+ years leading engineering teams, technical leads, or multiple engineering workstreams
• 3+ years making and documenting architecture decisions across applications, data, integrations, cloud infrastructure, security, and operations
• 3+ years establishing or improving engineering practices for automated testing, code quality, source control, CI/CD, release management, and production support
• 3+ years guiding the design or implementation of authentication, authorization, role-based access, privacy protections, and secure handling of sensitive data
• Authorization to work in the United States

Requirements

• Experience leading incremental modernization of a large legacy .NET platform
• Experience guiding AWS or AWS GovCloud architecture and operations
• Experience establishing deployment and security automation using CI/CD platforms
• Experience supporting federal authorization efforts, including NIST Moderate controls, FedRAMP, ATO processes
• Experience overseeing architecture for high-volume data collection, batch ingestion, ETL, data quality, and reporting or business intelligence integrations
• Experience guiding federated identity architecture, including single sign-on, multifactor authentication, and fine-grained access controls
• Experience leading complex production incident response, root-cause analysis, and improvements that prevent recurring issues
• Experience providing technical leadership for federal government, public health, grants management, behavioral health, or performance measurement programs

Benefits

• The pay range for this position based on full-time employment is: $158,819.00 - $269,993.00