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Enterprise Systems Architecture and Technical Leadership\nOwn and evolve the overall solution architecture for MARx, ensuring alignment with CMS business objectives, technology standards, and long-term modernization strategies.\nDefine architectural principles, technical standards, design patterns, and implementation guidelines for system development and enhancement.\nLead architectural design for complex, high-volume transaction processing and data-intensive business applications.\nEnsure the architecture supports scalability, high availability, fault tolerance, performance, security, and maintainability.\nEvaluate architectural alternatives and recommend solutions based on technical feasibility, business value, operational impact, and total cost of ownership.\nProvide technical leadership for modernization initiatives, architectural improvements, and integration of emerging technologies.\nMaintain architectural documentation, including system context diagrams, component architectures, data flows, integration patterns, and technical decision records.\nConduct design reviews and provide architectural oversight throughout the software development lifecycle.\nIdentify and proactively address architectural risks, technical debt, and system bottlenecks.2. Medicare Business Domain and Complex Transaction Processing\nDevelop and maintain a comprehensive understanding of MARx business operations, including:o Medicare Advantage and Part D enrollment and disenrollment processing.o Premium calculation and withholding.o Medicare Advantage and Part D plan payment processing.o Retroactive adjustments, reconciliations, and payment corrections.o Data exchanges with Medicare Advantage Organizations, Prescription Drug Plans, and other CMS systems.\nArchitect solutions supporting high-volume, complex business transactions with stringent requirements for accuracy, timeliness, traceability, and reliability.\nEnsure appropriate controls for financial processing, including transaction integrity, reconciliation, auditability, and prevention of duplicate or erroneous payments.\nDesign solutions capable of accommodating evolving Medicare policies, regulatory requirements, and legislative mandates.\nCollaborate with business stakeholders to translate complex Medicare requirements into scalable, maintainable technical solutions.\nPromote flexible and configurable architectures that minimize the effort required to implement future policy and business rule changes.3. AWS Cloud Architecture and Infrastructure Optimization\nProvide architectural leadership for MARx applications and services deployed on the AWS platform.\nDesign and optimize cloud-native solutions leveraging appropriate AWS services for computing, storage, databases, networking, integration, monitoring, and security.\nEstablish architecture patterns for high availability, resilience, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, and business continuity.\nOptimize cloud infrastructure for performance, scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency.\nCollaborate with infrastructure and DevSecOps teams to implement Infrastructure as Code, automated deployments, and environment standardization.\nEstablish effective observability capabilities, including centralized logging, monitoring, distributed tracing, and proactive alerting.\nEvaluate and recommend AWS services and architectural improvements based on evolving business and technical requirements.\nEnsure alignment with CMS security policies, federal cloud requirements, and applicable compliance standards.4. PostgreSQL Database and Data Architecture\nProvide architectural oversight for PostgreSQL-based data management and transaction processing.\nDesign and optimize database schemas, data models, indexing strategies, queries, and transaction management approaches.\nAddress database performance, scalability, concurrency, and data integrity requirements associated with high-volume transaction processing.\nDevelop strategies for efficient batch processing, bulk data operations, and large-scale data movement.\nEnsure appropriate database availability, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery capabilities.\nEstablish data retention, archival, partitioning, and lifecycle management strategies.\nCollaborate with database engineers and development teams to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks.\nPromote consistent data architecture practices, data quality, traceability, and auditability.5. Golang Application Architecture and Engineering Excellence\nProvide architectural direction for applications and services developed using Golang (Go).\nDefine and promote appropriate application structures, design patterns, coding standards, and reusable frameworks.\nGuide the design of high-performance, concurrent, and scalable Go-based services.\nEstablish best practices for API development, database connectivity, transaction management, error handling, and service integration.\nPromote effective use of Go's concurrency capabilities while ensuring reliability, resource efficiency, and maintainability.\nCollaborate with development teams to review critical implementations and resolve complex technical challenges.\nEncourage automated testing, code quality, secure coding, and performance optimization.\nEvaluate emerging Go libraries, frameworks, and development practices for potential adoption.6. Systems Integration and Interface Architecture\nDefine and oversee integration architecture supporting numerous internal CMS systems and external partner organizations.\nDesign secure, reliable, and scalable interfaces supporting high-volume data exchanges and business transactions.\nEstablish standards for RESTful APIs, asynchronous messaging, batch interfaces, and file-based integrations.\nAddress complex integration requirements involving:o Medicare Advantage Organizations and Prescription Drug Plans.o CMS internal business systems.o Federal agencies and other authorized external partners.o Financial and payment-related processing systems.\nEnsure interfaces incorporate appropriate validation, error handling, retry mechanisms, reconciliation, and operational monitoring.\nEstablish strategies for API versioning, backward compatibility, interface modernization, and partner onboarding.\nPromote reusable integration capabilities and standardized data exchange patterns.\nDesign for end-to-end transaction traceability across multiple applications and organizational boundaries.7. Performance, Scalability, and Operational Reliability\nEstablish architectural approaches for processing large transaction volumes within required business processing windows.\nIdentify and resolve performance bottlenecks across applications, databases, interfaces, and infrastructure.\nDefine performance engineering strategies, capacity planning approaches, and scalability requirements.\nGuide architecture for complex batch processing, transaction orchestration, scheduling, and exception management.\nEnsure systems support appropriate recovery, restartability, idempotency, and transaction consistency.\nCollaborate with testing and operations teams to establish performance benchmarks, load testing strategies, and reliability objectives.\nSupport root-cause analysis of critical production incidents and recommend long-term architectural improvements.\nPromote proactive monitoring, operational automation, and continuous reliability improvements.8. Cross-Functional Collaboration and Stakeholder Engagement\nWork closely with CMS business owners and OIT stakeholders to understand strategic objectives, operational challenges, and evolving business requirements.\nServe as a principal technical advisor to program leadership and CMS stakeholders.\nCollaborate across all technical and functional disciplines, including:o Business analysis and requirements engineering.o Application architecture and software development.o Database engineering and data management.o System integration and interface development.o Functional, integration, performance, and automated testing.o Cloud infrastructure and DevSecOps.o Cybersecurity and compliance.o Production operations and maintenance.\nFacilitate architectural discussions, technical workshops, and design reviews.\nCommunicate complex technical concepts and architectural trade-offs clearly to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders.\nPromote collaboration, transparency, and shared ownership of technical outcomes.9. Program Planning and Execution Support\nWork closely with Program Management to support planning, prioritization, execution, and delivery of MARx initiatives.\nProvide architectural input to program roadmaps, release planning, technical estimates, and resource planning.\nIdentify technical dependencies, implementation risks, and architectural constraints that could affect program schedules and deliverables.\nEvaluate the technical feasibility and implementation complexity of proposed business enhancements.\nSupport prioritization of modernization initiatives, technical debt remediation, and infrastructure improvements.\nGuide technical teams during implementation to ensure alignment with approved architectural designs.\nMonitor architectural risks and proactively recommend mitigation strategies.\nSupport technical reviews, milestone assessments, and customer presentations.\nBalance long-term architectural objectives with near-term delivery commitments and operational priorities.10. Innovation, Modernization, and Continuous Optimization\nProvide thought leadership in identifying opportunities to modernize and optimize MARx architecture and operations.\nEvaluate emerging technologies, architectural patterns, and engineering practices for potential adoption.\nIdentify opportunities to simplify complex business processing and reduce operational overhead.\nPromote automation across software development, testing, deployment, monitoring, and production operations.\nExplore the responsible use of Generative AI, Agentic AI, and AI-assisted engineering tools to improve productivity, software quality, operational efficiency, and business processing.\nRecommend strategies to reduce infrastructure costs, technical debt, maintenance complexity, and system enhancement effort.\nPromote architectural flexibility to support evolving CMS policies, regulations, and legislat...","description_format":"text","description_chars":21537,"description_truncated":true,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":12,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"phd","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["National Security","Information Security","Homeland Security","Systems Integrators"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-16T12:08:17Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":80,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.885,"p_room":0.9,"age_days":3,"expected_fill_days":10,"reasons":["conf:1","velocity","win:mid","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-20T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":216000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/peraton-systems-architect-senior-advisor-with-cms-experience","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/peraton-systems-architect-senior-advisor-with-cms-experience.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-21T02:41:30Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":3904,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":722},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=722"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fperaton-systems-architect-senior-advisor-with-cms-experience"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fperaton-systems-architect-senior-advisor-with-cms-experience"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fperaton-systems-architect-senior-advisor-with-cms-experience"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/peraton-systems-architect-senior-advisor-with-cms-experience\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fperaton-systems-architect-senior-advisor-with-cms-experience"}]}