Senior Architect

Who we are...

Latitude is a growing Service-Disabled Veteran Owned (SDVOSB) Company within the Federal Sector. We have experience in working with various federal clients across multiple different agencies. We believe in adopting and growing a remote work-from-home culture wherever possible to ensure a healthy work-to-life balance. We believe in automating the mundane and investing in our employees helping them grow their careers over time. We strive for innovation and want to develop solutions that we can take pride in and help break through some of the barriers that exist in technology and the government sectors today.

About The Role

Latitude IT Solutions is seeking a Senior Architect to own the technical vision and architectural integrity of a large-scale VA health IT platform. You are the highest technical authority on the contract. You design the multi-region failover strategy, own the Architecture Package, chair the Change Control Board, and set the engineering standards that every other Key Personnel role operates within.

What You'll Do

• Own the Architecture Package deliverable: a comprehensive, VA-approved document capturing platform architecture, integration patterns, and multi-region design
• Lead multi-region architecture across AWS GovCloud primary and failover regions; define workload tiers and own the Multi-Region Enablement Plan
• Chair the formal Change Control Board: review all architectural changes, assess technical risk, and approve or reject platform modifications
• Own the data architecture across all platform data services including cross-region replication strategy, consistency models, and replication latency management
• Define technical direction for Istio, EKS cluster architecture, Kubernetes namespace governance, and AWS GovCloud landing zone configuration
• Present architecture briefings to VA health leadership; serve as technical spokesperson in all architecture-level discussions with VA stakeholders
• Mentor the DevSecOps Director and Maintenance Technical Director on platform engineering decisions

What You Bring

• 10+ years of federal cloud architecture experience with demonstrated ownership of large-scale production architecture on AWS GovCloud
• Deep expertise in EKS at enterprise scale, AWS managed services (RDS, MSK, ElastiCache, DocumentDB, S3, Kinesis), and cloud-native platform design
• Expert-level Istio, HashiCorp Vault & Consul, and multi-VPC networking in AWS GovCloud
• Multi-region active/passive failover design with stringent RPO/RTO SLA accountability
• Familiarity with VistA RPC, Oracle Health integration, and VA Enterprise integration patterns (VA Profile, MPI, VADIR, eCMS)
• Strong written communication; ability to author Architecture Packages and present to non-technical VA leadership
• Active Dept of Veteran Affairs PIV credentials

Preferred

• AWS Solutions Architect Professional certification
• AWS Advanced Networking Specialty
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
• HashiCorp certifications
• Prior HAPS / VAEC / VA Health DevSecOps platform experience
• Kafka/MSK scheduling event bus and VistA integration experience

Clearance...

• Applicants selected will be subject to a Security Investigation and May need to Meet Requirements for Access to Protected and/or Classified Information

Citizenship...

• Applicants need to be a US Citizen to be considered for the position and have physically resided in the United States for a minimum of 3 years due to background investigation requirements

Employee Benefits...

• Medical, Vision, Dental
• Paid Vacation & Sick Time
• Paid Federal Holidays
• 401k Retirement Plan with 100% Company Matching
• Employer Paid Life Insurance
• Continued Education Assistance
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Commuter Benefits Program
• Health Savings Account (HSA)

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