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# Technical Lead / Solution Architect

- **Company:** Development InfoStructure
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $155,000.0 - $170,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Microsoft Windows, Amazon Web Services, Unit Testing, Microsoft Azure, Static Program Analysis, Data Systems, Elasticsearch, Microsoft SQL Server, Open Source Technology, Scrum Methodology, SAS (Software), Software Vulnerability Management, Java Application Server, Cloud Platform System, Okta, ReactJS, Event Driven Architecture, Debezium, Kubernetes, Health Level Seven International, Apache Kafka, Apache Nifi, Front End Software Development, Terraform, Data Pipelines, Devsecops, Microservices
- **Published:** July 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=b0221803ee16c2dd

## About the Role

* Master's degree and at least 8 years of relevant experience, or Bachelor's with equivalent substitution
 * Hands-on architecture ownership of Kubernetes-based microservice platforms (EKS or AKS, Terraform, Helm)
 * Depth in Java/Spring and event-driven architectures (Kafka or equivalent), plus production experience with search or pipeline tooling such as Elasticsearch and NiFi
 * Experience sustaining legacy Java estates alongside modernization work

Preferred

 * Open-source project delivery, ideally in government contexts
 * Prior work on health or public health data systems; HL7 exposure
 * Windows container and SQL Server operational experience
 * Section 508 and accessibility-aware front-end engineering

## Description

We are seeking a Technical Lead / Solution Architect to own the technical direction of a strangler-fig modernization: a legacy Java estate on one side, a Kubernetes and Kafka cloud platform on the other, and live users depending on both. This position offers architecture-level ownership of a widely adopted, open-source public health platform., As Technical Lead, you own the technical approach across both halves of a strangler-fig modernization: sustaining a legacy estate (Java application server on Windows, SQL Server, SAS, and integration-engine interfaces) while expanding its cloud-native successor (Kubernetes on AWS and Azure provisioned with Terraform and Helm, Spring microservices, Kafka and Debezium pipelines, Elasticsearch, NiFi, Keycloak, and a React front end). The codebase ships as open source, and multiple organizations contribute to it, which makes architecture governance a daily discipline rather than a document.

What You'll Do
Own the architecture

 * Set and defend the technical approach for decomposing legacy functions into microservices without breaking users in production
 * Govern architecture across a multi-vendor codebase, including reviewing and integrating code merges from other contributors
 * Keep every component deployable on multiple cloud providers without modification, per contract requirements
 * Write and maintain architecture decision records so decisions outlive the people who made them

Lead the engineering

 * Guide development teams across Java/Spring services, the React UI, data pipelines (Kafka, Debezium, NiFi, Elasticsearch), and SQL Server persistence
 * Direct the technical side of record matching, electronic case reporting, and configuration tooling modernization workstreams, completing in-progress work
 * Maintain a strong security posture: current dependencies, urgent vulnerability remediation on defined clocks (15 days critical, 30 days high), and audit-ready evidence
 * Own technical quality gates: unit test, static analysis, dependency, container, and infrastructure scanning enforced before merge and release

Connect architecture to mission

 * Work with the Public Health Informatician and Epidemiology SME so architecture decisions serve surveillance workflows
 * Support migration engineering for multiple jurisdiction onboardings per year, including environment setup and configuration validation
 * Advise the program manager on technical feasibility during sprint planning and release sequencing

Your day to day

 * Chair design reviews and adjudicate pull requests, including cross-vendor merges
 * Review pipeline health and scan results with the DevSecOps lead; triage new vulnerabilities against remediation clocks
 * Serve as the final technical escalation for production incidents behind the help desk tiers
 * Pair with workstream leads on the hard problems: matching algorithm integration, event pipeline resilience, legacy interface quirks
 * Keep the public demonstration environment current with the latest general availability release
 * Publish and refresh engineering standards (branching, build, artifact, signing, scanning) on a quarterly cadence


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