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AWS Architect

ICF99 open roles

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$119,323 – $202,850 a year
Where
Reston, VA
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The posting

Please note: This role is contingent upon a contract award. While it is not an immediate opening, we are actively conducting interviews and extending offers in anticipation of the award.

ICF is seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Architect to lead the design and governance of secure, scalable, and resilient cloud-native solutions in complex, regulated enterprise environments. This role is central to enterprise modernization initiatives requiring strong architectural leadership, security alignment, and DevSecOps mindset.

The ideal candidate offers deep expertise in Amazon Web Services (AWS), enterprise cloud governance, and secure platform architecture. This role requires strategic architectural oversight and technical credibility across infrastructure, applications, and data domains.

Working with client leadership and technical SMEs, this role will help define the modernization approach for a portfolio of applications. The architect will support analysis of dozens of applications, including on-premises and cloud-hosted systems, COTS products, and custom-built applications, to recommend the right modernization path and target cloud environment. The architect will help establish a repeatable factory model of standards, patterns, and architecture guidance for the current application portfolio, with specific focus on workloads moving to AWS.

Job Location: This position is remote within the United States.

Please note that ICF monitors employee work locations, restricts access from foreign locations and IP addresses, and prohibits the use of personal VPN connections.

What You’ll Be Doing

  • Analyze the current state and architect secure AWS cloud environments, including enterprise landing zones, identity integration, hybrid connectivity, and high-availability design for the modernized environment.
  • Create a factory model for modernizing cloud applications that development teams will use.
  • In coordination with the data architect, assess data architectures, dependencies, integration patterns, and system-of-record strategies to support application rationalization and modernization, including shared data sources, APIs, and data hub enablement.
  • Design cloud architectures that support long-term sustainment, including continuous monitoring, patching, annual maintenance releases, operational readiness, and post-ATO operations.
  • Serve as a senior portfolio architect, providing architectural leadership and decision-making across multiple concurrent application modernization efforts in coordination with Azure and platform architecture leads.
  • Lead and support application rationalization activities, including complexity assessments, disposition recommendations, and modernization sequencing.
  • Define and govern shared cloud services and patterns, including identity, networking, security, CI/CD, observability, and data integration, for use across development teams.
  • Develop and maintain reference architectures, technical standards, and governance controls to ensure consistent and compliant cloud implementations across multiple modernization efforts.
  • Lead architectural design reviews and approve solution designs to maintain alignment with enterprise security, compliance, and modernization strategies.
  • Integrate infrastructure-as-code, policy enforcement, and automated security controls into DevSecOps pipelines using modern CI/CD and automation practices.
  • Maintain alignment with security control frameworks and formal authorization environments, including role-based access management and continuous monitoring approaches.
  • Support FinOps, scalability planning, performance optimization, availability, and disaster recovery strategies across AWS environments.
  • Provide architectural direction for cloud-native, containerized, and data-driven workloads supporting enterprise modernization initiatives.
  • Partner with engineering, security, and operations teams to ensure solutions are supportable, maintainable, and consistent with enterprise standards.

What You Must Have

  • Bachelor’s Degree
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (required).
  • 10+ years of experience architecting and leading enterprise cloud solutions across complex, multi-team environments.
  • 8+ years of experience across multiple technical domains, including network infrastructure, application development, data platforms, or low-code/no-code technologies.
  • 5+ years demonstrated experience designing secure AWS environments within regulated enterprise settings that require formal security authorization and continuous compliance oversight.
  • 5+ years of experience implementing infrastructure-as-code and integrating automated security validation into CI/CD pipelines.
  • 5+ years of experience supporting cloud governance, compliance alignment, and continuous monitoring frameworks.
  • 3+ years of experience operating within hybrid and multi-cloud enterprise environments.
  • 5+ years of experience in modernizing large application portfolios and establishing architectural standards across multiple concurrent initiatives.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience aligning cloud architectures to established security and compliance control frameworks.
  • Experience designing enterprise landing zones and policy enforcement models.
  • Experience with cloud cost optimization and FinOps strategies.

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Please note that this application must be submitted directly by the applicant for consideration. Failure to do so may result in the application being excluded for consideration. Applicants needing an accommodation for disability or religious purposes in connection with the application process should contact [email protected] for assistance.

Working at ICF

ICF is a global advisory and technology services provider, but we’re not your typical consultants. We combine unmatched expertise with cutting-edge technology to help clients solve their most complex challenges, navigate change, and shape the future.

We can only solve the world's toughest challenges by building a workplace that allows everyone to thrive. We are an equal opportunity employer. Together, our employees are empowered to share their expertise and collaborate with others to achieve personal and professional goals. For more information, please read our EEO policy.

We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Reasonable Accommodations are available, including, but not limited to, for disabled veterans, individuals with disabilities, and individuals with sincerely held religious beliefs, in all phases of the application and employment process. To request an accommodation, please email [email protected] and we will be happy to assist. All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodations.

Read more about workplace discrimination rights or our benefit offerings which are included in the Transparency in (Benefits) Coverage Act.

Candidate AI Usage Policy

At ICF, we are committed to ensuring a fair interview process for all candidates based on their own skills and knowledge. As part of this commitment, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools to generate or assist with responses during interviews (whether in-person or virtual) is not permitted. This policy is in place to maintain the integrity and authenticity of the interview process.

However, we understand that some candidates may require accommodation that involves the use of AI. If such an accommodation is needed, candidates are instructed to contact us in advance at [email protected]. We are dedicated to providing the necessary support to ensure that all candidates have an equal opportunity to succeed.

Pay Range - There are multiple factors that are considered in determining final pay for a position, including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and competencies that align to the specified role, geographic location, education and certifications as well as contract provisions regarding labor categories that are specific to the position.

The pay range for this position based on full-time employment is:

$119,323.00 - $202,850.00

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