Principal Architect

About Us

eSimplicity is a modern digital services company that partners with government agencies to improve the lives and protect the well-being of all Americans, from veterans and service members to children, families, and seniors. Our engineers, designers, and strategists cut through complexity to create intuitive products and services that equip federal agencies with solutions to courageously transform today for a better tomorrow.

Position overview

The Principal Architect will lead reference architecture, cross-team technical standards, architecture governance, decision-making, interoperability patterns, and major technical trade-off analysis for a large-scale federal data and analytics modernization program. The program includes a governed cloud data platform, analytics products, APIs, AI-enabled capabilities, public-facing reporting, and integrated user services.

This role will guide technical direction across platform foundations, data supply chain, metadata maturity, analytics, public-facing products, AI/ML platform enablement, APIs, partner integrations, security, portability, and transition readiness. The Principal Architect will work with customer stakeholders, program leadership, engineering, data, product, security, AI, analytics, and partner teams to make architectural decisions transparent, reusable, secure, and aligned to customer objectives.

Responsibilities

• Own reference architecture, cross-team technical standards, architecture governance and decision-making, interoperability patterns, and major technical trade-off analysis.
• Lead applicable technical coverage across cloud and DevSecOps engineering, data engineering, data governance and metadata specialization, BI and analytics development, AI/ML platform engineering, security engineering and compliance, API services, partner integrations, and domain architecture.
• Guide architecture for platform-first delivery, approved technology direction, infrastructure as code, governed data trust patterns, API-first reuse, secure data sharing, AI-enabled service patterns, public-facing dashboards, and transition-ready artifact management.
• Coordinate with customer stakeholders, cloud and platform partners, security and privacy stakeholders, data owners, product teams, and downstream consumers on architecture reviews, environment changes, source onboarding, integrations, public-facing releases, and major technical decisions.
• Develop and maintain architectural artifacts in customer-accessible systems, including reference architectures, decision records, diagrams, standards, runbooks, interface documentation, joint operating agreements, service guides, data-flow documentation, and transition materials.
• Evaluate new or materially changed services against security, privacy, accessibility, cost transparency, observability, operational readiness, metadata maturity, AI governance, portability, and reuse criteria.
• Support joint operating agreements and cross-platform coordination for source-system and downstream-system interfaces, ingestion lead times, schema and metadata changes, incident boundaries, release dependencies, security and privacy responsibilities, support handoffs, and transition responsibilities.
• Promote out-of-the-box, native, reusable, open-source-aware, and portable solutions while minimizing unnecessary proprietary dependencies and avoiding contractor-managed external data systems.