Technical Architect / Remote ( Denver, CO ), 3+ Months Contract

Technical Architect

The Technical Architect shall commence on or before March 1, 2023, and shall continue through June 30, 2023. Possible extension. Scope of Work Technical Architect will guide the technical direction of OwnPath, a public website platform that helps Colorado residents navigate their options for behavioral and mental health service providers. Additionally, they will advise and direct product solutions that support behavioral healthcare providers manage patient workloads amongst their services or by referring them to other providers. These projects range from low-maturity technical environments to established products and leading cloud platforms. This role is suited for an individual committed to a human-centered design perspective and data-centric approach to improving public sector technology. In addition, the Technical Architect is responsible for advocating and promoting modern software engineering practices, create momentum through incremental improvements to software deployment pipelines, and have expertise in several aspects of software development, such as application and software architecture, security, CI/CD, automated testing, performance optimization, code refactoring, penetration testing, and infrastructure as code. This Technical Architect will be working collaboratively in a cross-functional team including skill sets in public policy, product management, user-experience design, and data science. This person should be comfortable contributing in a hands-on capacity when needed, as well as consulting and leading others in adopting and improving software engineering best practices.

Qualifications, Skills & Leadership Technical

• Experience with providing full-stack application development and leading teams of frontend and backend developers
• Skilled with multiple programming and scripting languages (C#, Java, JavaScript)
• Skilled with web and mobile technologies and frameworks
• Experience with data processes in a Python and Linux ecosystem, including ingest, transformation, and analytics
• Experience and familiarity managing and deploying code to cloud computing environments such as:
• Google APIs and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) experience
• Google Maps APIs
• Google Analytics
• Cloud Functions
• PubSub
• BigQuery, CloudSQL
• AWS
• Amazon Linux on EC2
• AWS Lambda functions
• API Gateway, Cloudfront
• Programmatic infrastructure configuration tools such as Terraform
• AWS Secrets Manager
• Step Functions
• Heroku
• Ability to manage multiple Heroku instances and code deployments used for multiple pre-production environment scenarios.
• Experience with CI/CD, DevOps and agile development platforms (e.g. Azure DevOps, Jira, etc.)
• Containerization systems such as Docker, Kubernetes
• Should be proficient in working with Git code repositories and familiar with managing agile development practices using platforms such as Azure DevOps.
• Information risk, privacy, and strategy (i.e. security and privacy policies, or risk assessments, or security and privacy compliance);
• Application security testing and security integrations within the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)

Soft Skills

• Build trust with agency partners by doing the work alongside them.
• Ability to build strong, trusted and candid relationships and promote collaboration
• Ability to thrive in a flexible and fast-paced environment across
• Strong interpersonal, analytical, problem solving and organizational skills

Essential Duties and Responsibilities Engineering Leadership

• Perform current and future system discovery assessments to conclude, but not limited to technology and versions, integration patterns and interfaces, web applications, end to end data/process flows, security and compliance, reliability, and operations and maintenance.
• Creation and delivery of a technical roadmap for modernization and alleviate any technical debt
• Champion modern software practices on topics such as agile project management, continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD), infrastructure as code, security, testing, and automation.
• Oversight for all architecture changes for compliance with standards and alignment with best practices
• Determine the long-term strategic and technical plan for the supported systems by documenting the current system architecture and providing options and recommendations for the future architecture (Cloud, data platform, programming language, etc.)
• Additional deliverables will include, but not limited to, developing System Architecture Document, contextual and conceptual architecture views for the application(s), technology plan(s), architecture review & design, and security champion
• Work closely with senior leadership, enterprise/platform architects, tech leads, developers, scrum masters, product/program/project managers to ensure that all stakeholders have the necessary direction and feedback to deliver product features at regular intervals, on-time, and with high-quality
• Understand and align with CDHS operational goals, and communicate to agency and technology leadership
• Advise and guide on software and application architecture decisions, providing design leadership, modeling, and implementation governance.
• Establish version one of a process or tool implementation to improve engineering quality and to demonstrate best practices.
• Ability to coach, mentor, and provide direct, timely performance feedback; experience setting direction, tracking progress, and ensuring accountability
• Ability to effectively inspire and influence teams and partners in delivering technology enabled solutions that meet agency operational needs
• Evaluate emerging technology proposals, either at the inception policy phase, scoping and strategy phase, or acquisition procurement phase.
• Advocate for users with accessibility needs. Champion accessibility to internal and external stakeholders, with knowledge of the best tools and methods to be used when accessibility testing.
• Provide clear communication and counsel to a variety of stakeholders, from policymakers to technical subject matter experts.

Development

• Establish SDLC best practices and tooling.
• Write code, unit tests, scripts based on user stories, in a version-controlled environment.
• Pair with junior developers to help them develop clean and accessible code that meets the needs of end-users.
• Review pull requests and code from state and vendor developers.
• Provide software development engineering support and enhancements to the BHA OwnPath web application.