Architect/Technical Lead

The role

The Architect/Technical Lead will be the primary technical authority for the contractor team on the Intake Returns Processing and Posting Systems (IRPPS). The role covers development, modernization and operations of high-volume IRS tax processing solutions.

What you will do

• Provide technical direction and leadership to a team of full-stack engineers and database SMEs.
• Lead design, development, unit testing and implementation of scalable applications using Java and Informatica.
• Architect cloud-native, distributed and containerized services on OpenShift/Kubernetes for 9.2 billion records annually.
• Design integration patterns using Enterprise APIs, Kafka and Change Data Capture (CDC) to connect legacy mainframes with modern data platforms.
• Ensure architectural designs comply with IRS security standards, Zero Paper Initiative objectives and Section 508 accessibility.
• Work with Government product owners, architects and cybersecurity teams through the Enterprise Life Cycle and to achieve Risk Management Framework Authority to Operate.

Required qualifications

• U.S. citizenship required.
• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain an IRS Moderate Background Investigation (MBI)/Public Trust.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Minimum of eight years of application development and technical-team leadership experience using Java, Informatica and modern modernization toolsets.
• Experience architecting enterprise systems processing billions of transactions annually.
• Recent (within 5 years) experience leading legacy-to-cloud-native modernization while maintaining 24x7 operations.
• Experience leading technical teams in a highly regulated, secure, hybrid Government-led delivery model.
• Core stack: Java (17/21), Informatica, Spring Boot, Spring Batch.
• Infrastructure: OpenShift, Kubernetes, cloud-native services (AWS/Azure).
• Integration: Kafka, CDC technologies, OpenAPI specifications, RESTful APIs.
• Data and search: MongoDB, relational databases, OpenSearch.

Nice to have

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect or Azure Solutions Architect Expert.
• Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Application Development.
• Informatica Certified Professional.

Before you apply

• U.S. citizenship is required.
• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain an IRS Moderate Background Investigation (MBI)/Public Trust.

About the company

eTelligent Group (eTel) delivers technology solutions and services to the US federal government, including data security, identity access, legacy modernization and platform builds. It holds CMMI Level 3, ISO 9001:2015, ISO/IEC 27001:2013 and ISO/IEC 20000-1:2018 certifications.