IT Senior Architect - DevSecOps

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Oversee the automation processes for daily activities, build activities and new feature and functionality with public and private cloud

- Interact with other team members and groups within the IT organization

- Help enforce the standards for server builds and services deployed in AWS and the private cloud by the cloud solutions teams

- Perform other duties assigned by leadership.

Job-Specific Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

DevSecOps Architecture & Platform Leadership

- Serve as the principal architect for the Maximus enterprise DevSecOps platform, defining reference architectures, pipeline standards, and security guardrails across commercial, federal, and GovCloud deployment targets, with primary delivery via Jenkins Shared Libraries (Groovy), Terraform and Crossplane-based infrastructure provisioning.

- Establish and maintain the canonical CI/CD pipeline model, from source control through cloud deployment, inclusive of static code analysis, SAST/DAST security scans, artifact management, and policy-gated release gates.

- Provide authoritative architecture decisions for multi-environment deployment strategies (dev, staging, production) on AWS, Azure, and GCP.

Security Integration & Compliance

- Embed automated security controls and vulnerability management into CI/CD pipelines, including integration with Dependency Track, Splunk, RapidFort (container hardening and CVE remediation), and Axway Managed File Transfer (MFT) solutions.

- Ensure all pipeline architectures align with NIST SSDF, FedRAMP, HIPAA, SOC 2, and PCI compliance requirements.

- Collaborate with the Information Security Office (ISO) on security architecture reviews, risk acceptance decisions, and continuous compliance monitoring.

- Champion "security left" practices across the Maximus developer community (300+ DevSecOps practitioners).

Technical Leadership & Governance

- Participate in and provide technical authority within enterprise governance bodies, including SCM/Change Management governance groups alongside VP-level and Sr Director-level peers.

- Author and maintain enterprise-level architecture documents, white papers, and technical standards for OCDIO-wide consumption.

- Serve as a named technical reviewer and subject-matter authority for DevSecOps capability sections in business development and proposal content at the capture/pre-award stage.

- Provide technical mentorship and upskilling guidance to T3/T4 architects and engineers across the tools and automation practice.

Platform Adoption & Community Enablement

- Lead the internal DevSecOps community of practice, driving platform adoption, knowledge sharing, and standardized delivery patterns across business lines.

- Define and maintain golden-path pipeline templates and launchpad configurations enabling 65-75% portfolio reuse.

- Partner with project teams on onboarding, consulting engagements, escalated platform support, and day-to-day developer supp...