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Role Description

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 integration.

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.

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

• Architect and govern secure AWS cloud environments, including enterprise landing zones, identity integration, hybrid connectivity, and high-availability design.
• Establish and maintain reference architectures, technical standards, and governance guardrails to ensure consistent, compliant cloud implementations across multiple concurrent 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.
• Guide Financial Operations, 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.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 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.

Benefits

• ICF is a global advisory and technology services provider, combining unmatched expertise with cutting-edge technology to help clients solve their most complex challenges, navigate change, and shape the future.
• We are an equal opportunity employer.
• Reasonable Accommodations are available for disabled veterans, individuals with disabilities, and individuals with sincerely held religious beliefs.
• Pay Range: $108,476.00 - $223,134.00 based on full-time employment.