Information Technology Specialist (Enterprise Architecture)

The Cloud Architect position is in the Office of the Deputy Director, Case Management Modernization (CMM) Program Office. The CMM Program Office drives change management and adoption practices to achieve delivery of a modernized, efficient, and secure case management environment. This role leads teams, manages resources, and applies knowledge to deliver solutions that support the judiciary's mission and operational excellence.

Qualifications:

Applicants must have demonstrated experience as listed below. This requirement is according to the AO Classification, Compensation, and Recruitment Systems which include interpretive guidance and reference to the OPM Operating Manual for Qualification Standards for General Schedule Positions.

Specialized Experience: Applicants must have at least one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience which is in or directly related to the line of work of this position. Specialized experience is demonstrated experience designing and governing cloud architecture for large-scale enterprise platforms.

Responsibilities:

The Cloud Architect is embedded within the CMM Product Architecture and Experience (PAX) pod to design and govern cloud architecture that enables secure, scalable delivery of CMM capabilities. This role defines standardized cloud architecture patterns and non-functional benchmarks, ensuring solution designs are platform-ready, scalable, and aligned with program governance and release timelines.

1. Defining target cloud architecture for PAX pod solutions including network, computer, storage, and runtime patterns.
2. Establishing nonfunctional requirements and architecture runway to de-risk delivery across sprints and releases.
3. Collaborating with DevSecOps engineers and Security pods to ensure cloud designs satisfying secure-by-design expectations and delivering evidence needs.
4. Providing architecture guidance on environment strategy, tooling dependencies, and promoting pathways to support release cadence.
5. Reviewing solution designs for operational readiness including observability, reliability, and support handoffs.
6. Collaborating with security and data architects to ensure cloud patterns enable API, data, and cross-service interoperability.
7. Defining cloud cost-management and capacity-planning strategies, including usage patterns, guardrails, and optimization recommendations.
8. Owning connectivity architecture decisions, including on-prem to cloud (e.g., VPN, Direct Connect), network segmentation, and traffic routing patterns required for secure and reliable integration with external systems.
9. Defining resilience and failure-mode expectations, including multi-region strategies, backup/recovery patterns, and degradation behaviors aligned to service criticality.
10. Publishing and maintaining reusable cloud architecture patterns and standards for adoption across PAX pods.
11. Participating in solution architecture reviews to align cloud decisions to program-wide guardrails and cross-pod dependencies.

Salary : $121,785