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Systems Technical Director

ICF
Reston, USA
Full-time
Director · 3+ years experience
Onsite
Discovered Yesterday
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Key Responsibilities

  • Define and maintain the program engineering strategy, technical roadmap, architecture guardrails, and incremental modernization approach.
  • Lead engineering team leads and multiple development workstreams by aligning priorities, capacity, dependencies, standards, and delivery expectations.
  • Provide technical direction across application architectures (including.NET-based systems), APIs, data models and SQL Server solutions, system integrations, analytics/reporting platforms, and cloud-hosted services.
  • Establish program-wide practices for secure development, automated testing, code review, CI/CD, release readiness, documentation, and production support.
  • Evaluate technical options and communicate recommendations, costs, risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs to program leadership and federal stakeholders.
  • Partner with product and delivery leaders to shape release plans, estimates, staffing needs, and acceptance criteria that are technically achievable.
  • Coordinate architecture and delivery across cloud, DevSecOps, database, security, quality assurance, accessibility, data, user experience, and operations teams.
  • Identify and manage technical debt, performance constraints, reliability risks, integration dependencies, and modernization sequencing.
  • Oversee response to complex production issues, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and improvements to monitoring and operational readiness.
  • Mentor engineering leads and senior engineers, strengthen technical decision-making, and build consistent engineering practices across the program.
  • Maintain technical roadmaps, decision records, interface documentation, standards, and executive-ready status reporting.

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, information systems, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
  • 7+ years architecting, delivering, or overseeing resilient production enterprise applications and data platforms, including demonstrated ability to lead teams working with C#/.NET, ASP.NET MVC or Web API, and relational databases such as SQL Server.
  • 5+ years architecting APIs, enterprise integrations, or distributed application services across modern application stacks; ability to evaluate.NET design decisions and guide hands-on engineering leads.
  • 3+ years leading engineering teams, technical leads, or multiple engineering workstreams, including Agile delivery, estimation, dependency management, and technical risk management.
  • 3+ years making and documenting architecture decisions across applications, data, integrations, cloud infrastructure, security, and operations, and communicating tradeoffs to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
  • 3+ years establishing or improving engineering practices for automated testing, code quality, source control, CI/CD, release management, and production support.
  • 3+ years guiding the design or implementation of authentication, authorization, role-based access, privacy protections, and secure handling of sensitive data.
  • Authorization to work in the United States, ability to perform all work within the United States, and ability to obtain and maintain a favorable Public Trust determination and complete required background screening.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience leading incremental modernization of a large legacy.NET platform, including sequencing technical debt reduction while maintaining reliable production service.
  • Experience guiding AWS or AWS GovCloud architecture and operations, including cost optimization, capacity planning, observability, and service reliability.
  • Experience establishing deployment and security automation using CI/CD platforms, containers, infrastructure as code, and repeatable environment configuration.
  • Experience supporting federal authorization efforts, including NIST Moderate controls, FedRAMP, ATO processes, and preparation of technical evidence.
  • Experience overseeing architecture for high-volume data collection, batch ingestion, ETL, data quality, and reporting or business intelligence integrations; experience with tools such as Alteryx and Tableau is a plus.
  • Experience guiding federated identity architecture, including single sign-on, multifactor authentication, and fine-grained access controls; Okta experience is a plus.
  • Experience leading complex production incident response, root-cause analysis, and improvements that prevent recurring issues.
  • Experience providing technical leadership for federal government, public health, grants management, behavioral health, or performance measurement programs.
  • Please note this role is contingent.
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  • 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.
  • Work Authorization and Sponsorship All candidates must be authorized to work in the United States. This position is not eligible for new H-1B visa sponsorship by ICF. Candidates who currently hold valid work authorization may be considered for a change of employer petition, subject to company policy and applicable immigration requirements.
  • 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:
  • $158,819.00 - $269,993.00
  • Nationwide Remote Office (US99)

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