Solution Architect (FEMA ITSA)

Location: Washington, DC metropolitan area and northern Virginia; work is performed primarily from company facilities or remotely, with periodic travel to Government facilities. Must be a U.S. citizen and able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust suitability determination.

Salary: $130,000–$180,000 per year

Company

hirify.global delivers enterprise IT assessment, modernization, and implementation support for federal government clients.

What you will do

• Lead technical assessments of large federal application portfolios across hosting, integration, cost, cybersecurity, and AI readiness.
• Develop and document modernization dispositions, including retain, rehost, replatform, reengineer, replace, consolidate, and retire.
• Create prioritized portfolio roadmaps with migration, archival, decommissioning, risk, dependency, cost, and mission-impact considerations.
• Evaluate cloud, on-premises, hybrid, vendor-hosted, and SaaS architectures, including scalability, resiliency, continuity, disaster recovery, and surge operations.
• Assess APIs, middleware, data exchanges, DevSecOps, CI/CD, automation, analytics, and AI capabilities.
• Conduct technical interviews and workshops with system owners, IT operations, mission users, and client stakeholders; validate findings and brief senior executives.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 15 or more years of progressive IT experience, including significant solution or systems architecture experience on enterprise-scale systems.
• Experience assessing legacy applications and developing modernization or cloud migration strategies, including the 7 Rs of migration.
• Deep knowledge of AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud, as well as hybrid and on-premises architectures, resiliency, continuity, and disaster recovery.
• Hands-on experience with system integration, APIs, middleware, enterprise data exchange, application portfolio rationalization, and IT cost or TCO analysis.
• U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain a favorably adjudicated Public Trust suitability determination are required.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting federal civilian agencies, particularly DHS components.
• Familiarity with OMB Circulars A-130 and A-11, FITARA, FISMA, FedRAMP, and federal enterprise architecture and governance.
• Relevant certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Google Professional Cloud Architect, TOGAF, or PMP.
• Experience with grants, case management, financial, emergency, or mission-critical operational systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work or work primarily from company facilities.
• Periodic travel to Government facilities in the Washington, DC metropolitan area and northern Virginia.
• Federal security, privacy, and insider threat awareness training is provided and must be completed within required timeframes.
• Annual recertification is required for security, privacy, and insider threat awareness training.