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Are you the kind of engineer-leader who can sketch a modern architecture on a whiteboard in the morning, defend the trade-offs to stakeholders by noon, and roll up your sleeves with the dev team by afternoon? If you love turning sprawling, complex environments into clean, scalable, modern systems, and bringing a team along with you, then please apply.\nCome join us if you're motivated to learn from others, to learn from mistakes, to be part of a future-looking and growth-oriented team.\nLet's go Skyward together.\nWhat you'll do:\nLead the technical vision for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) as it merges and modernizes its enterprise knowledge and data systems into a single, AI-driven platform, reducing manual effort, improving data accuracy, and enhancing transparency for stakeholders.\nOwn the architecture. 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Work with the team to stand up continuous monitoring (CloudWatch, New Relic, Splunk) and turn performance, health, and cost data into decisions.\nBe the bridge between technology and business. Translate stakeholder needs into technical direction and explain technical trade-offs to non-technical audiences with clarity.\nProvide technical leadership and mentorship. Set engineering standards, guide the development team, and grow the technical capability of the people around you.\nWhat we’d like you to have:\nA bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.\n5+ years of experience in solutions architecture, software engineering, or systems engineering, including significant time architecting AWS cloud environments.\nDeep expertise in AWS services, cloud architecture patterns, and modern best practices.\nStrong command of modern engineering practices - microservices, containerization (Docker), infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible), and CI/CD (Jenkins, GitLab CI).\nA track record of leading the technical direction of complex, distributed systems and guiding engineering teams.\nProficiency in one or more programming/scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash, Go) and the credibility that comes from having built things yourself.\nExcellent communication skills, with a real talent for presenting complex technical concepts to both engineers and stakeholders.\nWhat would blow us away:\nYou’ve previously worked with CMS.\nYou have experience working in AI, NLP, or LLM-driven environments - specially hosting models securely within a cloud environment.\nYou have familiarity with FISMA boundaries, ATO/cATO, and federal security frameworks (RMF, ARS, IS2P2).\nEven if you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications, we encourage you to apply. 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