State and Local Sr. Product Enterprise Architect/ Growth Lead (5417) at SMX

<div class="ui-form-item ui-form-item-horizontal" data-direction="horizontal"> <div class="ui-form-field lifesuite__rte--display"> <div class="ui-form-field lifesuite__rte--display"> <p>SMX is seeking a Senior Enterprise Solution Architect and Growth Lead for our State &amp; Local Government practice. You will own product development, solution design, and technical delivery for complex, multi-agency cloud migration, application modernization, AI/ML, and data &amp; analytics engagements.&nbsp;This is a client-facing role with delivery accountability, team leadership, and business development responsibility. You will work directly with state executives, lead engineering teams, and contribute to proposals and capture efforts.&nbsp;This is an application-layer role. Our clients are typically several years into a cloud journey - the infrastructure exists and is managed. What they need is someone who can look at a portfolio of aging agency applications and produce a credible, sequenced modernization path that survives contact with procurement, budget cycles, and a risk-averse security review.Our SLG application portfolio is predominantly Microsoft-stack at mixed levels of modernity, including C#, ASP.NET Core, legacy .NET Framework 4.8, SQL Server 2019+, React.js/JavaScript, Angular/TypeScript, and AWS cloud services including Bedrock and SageMaker for AI/ML work.&nbsp;This position is&nbsp;<strong>hybrid</strong> supporting a Boston, MA based customer.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p><strong class="ng-binding">Essential Duties &amp; Responsibilities:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Identify and shape new business opportunities by proactively engaging state and local government stakeholders, mapping agency pain points to SMX capabilities, and building a qualified pipeline aligned to the practice's growth targets.</li> <li>Drive strategic product and service development by translating market trends, client feedback, and competitive intelligence into new solution offerings, repeatable accelerators, and go-to-market strategies.</li> <li>Contribute to RFP/RFQ responses - write technical approaches, build solution architectures, and develop sales materials.</li> <li>Drive new and existing partner relationships, and navigate multi-agency, multi-vendor environments with competing constraints.</li> <li>Lead solution architecture from discovery through implementation - producing architecture documents, decision records, and technical governance that meet FedRAMP Moderate, GovRAMP, HIPAA, CJIS, and IRS Pub 1075 requirements.</li> <li>Lead modernization assessments across agency application portfolios, delivering disposition recommendations (rehost / replatform / refactor / replace / retire) with effort, cost, and risk attached to each.</li> <li>Own the technical narrative through delivery - reference patterns and guardrails that keep implementation teams consistent.</li> <li>Stand up and improve the operational side of modernized applications: deployment automation, observability, incident response patterns, and the SLOs that matter to the mission.</li> <li>Serve as trusted technical advisor to senior government executives; translate technical decisions into business impact.</li> <li>Lead and grow delivery teams - set technical direction, run design and code reviews, own staffing plans and skills-gap decisions, and participate in hiring and performance conversations.</li> <li>Mentor mid-level architects and engineers, and raise the technical bar across the practice.</li> </ul> <p><span data-contrast="auto"><span class="ng-binding"><strong class="ng-binding">Required Skills/Experience:</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li>Minimum 15 years in enterprise technology - architecture, engineering, or technical consulting.</li> <li>3+ years contributing to or leading business development and capture activities - pipeline development, client relationship management, win-theme development, and strategic pricing/teaming decisions in government professional services.</li> <li>3+ years directly leading engineering teams, including technical direction, mentoring, hiring, and performance management.</li> <li>Demonstrated ability to identify market opportunities and shape solution offerings - translating emerging technology trends (AI/ML, data modernization, cloud) into productized service lines or reusable frameworks that drive revenue growth.</li> <li>Application modernization depth - legacy to cloud-native (containerization, microservices, API-first), with ownership of at least two substantial modernization efforts.</li> <li>Application architecture, decomposition, and refactoring strategy across large agency portfolios.</li> <li>API design, API management, and integration architecture across agency systems.</li> <li>CI/CD pipeline design and release engineering.</li> <li>Deep expertise across the .NET ecosystem: C#, ASP.NET Core, and .NET Framework 4.8 - with demonstrated experience moving Framework applications forward incrementally rather than betting on a full rewrite.</li> <li>Strong SQL Server (2019 or later) and Entity Framework / EF Core experience, including query performance tuning and zero-downtime migration strategy.</li> <li>Working depth in at least one modern front-end framework - React.js/JavaScript or Angular/TypeScript - and enough command of both to set standards and review code across a mixed portfolio.</li> <li>Hands-on AWS depth at the application layer: ECS/EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, SQS/SNS/EventBridge, IAM, CloudWatch, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or CDK).</li> <li>AI/ML practical experience (Bedrock, SageMaker, or equivalent; generative AI, RAG architectures).</li> <li>Data &amp; analytics fluency - data lakes, analytics platforms, BI tooling.</li> <li>Demonstrated experience in regulated environments (FedRAMP Moderate, HIPAA, CJIS, IRS Pub 1075).</li> <li>Strong communication - architecture documentation, executive presentations, and proposal writing.</li> </ul> <p><span data-teams="true"><strong class="ng-binding">Desired Skills/Experience:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li>AWS Solutions Architect - Professional, or equivalent certification with other cloud service providers.</li> <li>State and local government experience - procurement cycles, compliance, public-sector IT realities, state agencies such as Health and Human Services, Revenue, Transportation, or Labor and Workforce Development.</li> <li>Medicaid or public benefits program technology experience.</li> <li>Oracle database environments and migration strategies.</li> <li>Awareness of Appian, ServiceNow, or low-code/BPM platforms in government sufficient to drive solutions that incorporate them.</li> <li>Awareness of enterprise data platforms and BI tooling (e.g., Snowflake, Informatica, Tableau) sufficient to drive solutions that incorporate them.</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">#</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> LI-SA1</span></p> </div> </div> </div><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="description"><p>&nbsp;</p> <hr> <p><span style="font-size: 16px;">The SMX salary determination process takes into account a number of factors, including but not limited to, geographic location, Federal Government contract labor categories, relevant prior work experience, specific skills, education and certifications. At SMX, one of our Core Values is to Invest in Our People so we offer a competitive mix of compensation, learning &amp; development opportunities, and benefits. Some key components of our robust benefits include health insurance, paid leave, and retirement.</span></p></div><div class="title">The proposed salary for this position is:</div><div class="pay-range"><span>$161,600</span><span class="divider">&mdash;</span><span>$254,500 USD</span></div></div></div><div class="content-conclusion"><p>&nbsp;</p> <p>At SMX®, we are a team of technical and domain experts dedicated to enabling your mission. From priority national security initiatives for the DoD to highly assured and compliant solutions for healthcare, we understand that digital transformation is key to your future success.</p> <p>We share your vision for the future and strive to accelerate your impact on the world. We bring both cutting edge technology and an expansive view of what’s possible to every engagement. Our delivery model and unique approaches harness our deep technical and domain knowledge, providing forward-looking insights and practical solutions to power secure mission acceleration.</p> <p>SMX is an Equal Opportunity employer including disabilities and veterans.</p> <p><span data-teams="true"><span id="message-body-1758638857922" class="fui-ChatMyMessage__body rcngbzt ___eyw0iv0 f10pi13n ftqa4ok f2hkw1w f8hki3x f1d2448m f1bjia2o ffh67wi f1j6vpng f1pniga2 f987i1v f1ffjurs f15bsgw9 f14e48fq f18yb2kv fd6o370 ffwy5si f3znvyf f57olzd f4stah7 f480a47 fs1por5 fk6fouc figsok6 fkhj508 f19n0e5 f9ijwd5 fzqqayd f10ostut f1o0qvyv f9ggezi f1xp5gbu f150uoa4 ffyari3 fo7qwa0 f16xkysk fxowb0n f11ghf3q f13aoclr flypziy f10kwr27 fquw1qa fftr39l f13lathq f15hsm81 f2ss68y ffb60jq f8nuap2 f13nk4fk f7jacry fq08z5q fd9af6s fr74w9q fcl9uv6 f13sm7pj f1u6qqly f16wpxbl faim3u9 f6cs3qo fa2w2z3 fd39nx6 f10gn8j9 frcqmxy f1w9ws4k f1ddxkqj fd10euv fvuz61 f1nbc6gw"><span id="content-1758638857922" class="fui-Primitive ___16zla5h f1oy3dpc fqtknz5 fyvcxda"></span></span></span></p> <div id="x_Signature"></div> <p>Selected applicant may be subject to a background investigation and/or education verification.</p> <p>SMX does not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization or immigration related support for this position (i.e. H1B, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, F-1 CPT, J-1, TN, E-2, E-3, L-1 and O-1, or any EADs or other forms of work authorization that require immigration support from an employer).</p></div>