IT Senior Architect - DevSecOps

Maximus is currently seeking an IT Senior Architect - DevSecOps.

The IT Senior Architect - DevSecOps / Tools Engineering serves as the senior-most individual contributor technical authority for DevSecOps engineering, pipeline strategy, and secure software delivery across Maximus Enterprise Technology.

Operating within the HO ET Architecture & Automation organization, this role provides principal-level guidance for the enterprise CI/CD platform (Jenkins Shared Libraries / Groovy), embedded security tooling, and end-to-end application delivery practices supporting 1,000+ government programs under FedRAMP, HIPAA, SOC 2, and PCI compliance requirements.

This is a high-visibility, enterprise-wide role requiring deep technical ownership, cross-functional influence with VP/Sr Director-level peers, and direct contribution to Maximus's $5B+ government services delivery mission.

This is a remote position.

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 ...