Solutions Architect, Technical Lead

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🔥 13 hours ago

🏄 California, District of Columbia, +3 more states – Remote

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💵 $117 / hour

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🟠 Senior

💻 Solutions Engineer

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Friends From The City

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1 - 10 employees

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

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Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

Friends From The City is a modern digital agency that focuses on creating impactful and inclusive technology solutions, primarily for government clients. They specialize in modernizing government systems with user-friendly designs and ensuring that all technology developed is accessible to everyone. Their services include content strategy, human-centered design, product design, and both front and backend engineering. Friends From The City is dedicated to transforming complex concepts into clear communication and building intuitive, secure systems. Their work also emphasizes ethical innovation and supporting historically underrepresented groups, striving towards equity as a service and improving public sector technology. They pride themselves on a client-centric approach, emphasizing strong relationships, transparency, and a culture of continuous learning and inclusivity.

📋 Description

• Own solution architecture across front-end applications, APIs, data services, configuration platforms, and cloud infrastructure • Lead the evolution of configurable, rules-driven workflows rather than hardcoded application logic • Design and maintain versioned APIs, data models, configuration schemas, and integration boundaries • Guide development of branching, validation, workflow, content, and configuration-management capabilities • Ensure systems preserve historical/versioned behavior and support safe configuration change and release governance • Establish technical patterns for security, privacy, accessibility, observability, testing, and performance • Define integration approaches for existing government systems, identity services, content platforms, reference data, and external APIs • Review architecture and code, mentor engineers, and make pragmatic technical decisions balancing alpha delivery with long-term maintainability • Partner with product, design, research, security, data, and program teams • Support deployment, troubleshooting, technical documentation, and transition from prototype through production • Lead technical architecture and delivery of modern public-interest digital services focused on secure, accessible, configurable health and government systems • Translate product and program requirements into scalable architecture and guide engineering implementation

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of experience designing and developing production software systems, including technical leadership responsibilities • Strong experience designing RESTful APIs, service boundaries, and domain/data models • Strong experience with modern application architecture using technologies such as .NET/C#, Java, Node.js, Python, or comparable platforms • Experience with modern front-end architectures using React, TypeScript, or comparable frameworks • Experience designing relational data models and working with PostgreSQL, SQL Server, SQLite, or similar databases • Demonstrated experience with configuration-driven systems, workflow engines, rules engines, dynamic forms, or other metadata-driven platforms • Experience designing versioning, immutable configuration, auditability, change governance, or similar approaches for systems where historical behavior must be preserved • Strong understanding of application security, privacy, authentication/authorization, API security, and secure software development practices • Experience with automated testing, CI/CD, observability, performance engineering, and production reliability • Ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear architecture decisions and communicate tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders • Experience leading engineers through incremental delivery while protecting long-term architectural integrity • Health IT experience or equivalent experience with complex, regulated data systems is required • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, health informatics, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience • Significant relevant experience designing and leading complex software systems • Health IT, public health technology, regulated-data, or equivalent domain experience required

🏖️ Benefits

• No employee benefits, including health insurance, paid time off, or employer-sponsored retirement benefits • 1099 independent contractor position • Approximately 36 hours/week • 9-month engagement