Technical Lead – Technical Architect
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Technical Lead/Architect guiding secure enterprise application delivery and AI-assisted modernization for USPS at GDIT. Leading architecture, engineering standards, security, and technical teams remotely.
Responsibilities:
- Provide technical leadership for one or more application teams, including architecture direction, design guidance, engineering standards, and delivery oversight
- Translate complex technical concepts, tradeoffs, and risks into clear language for USPS Executives and Managers
- Partner with USPS Managers, BSAs, and Technical Project Leaders to shape solution scope, define technical approaches, estimate effort, and align delivery plans
- Collaborate with CASI Architects and NIT leaders to align solutions with enterprise architecture, integration patterns, security controls, and platform standards
- Define and maintain solution designs and technical documentation, including reference architectures, integration and data-flow diagrams, environment topology, and architecture decision records
- Conduct and/or lead code reviews and technical design reviews
- Establish and enforce development best practices, including CI/CD expectations, branching strategies, testing strategy, and operational readiness requirements
- Identify technical risks and systemic issues, drive root-cause analysis, and implement corrective and preventative improvements
- Support Environment Management Leads with environment provisioning, configuration, release readiness, and deployment coordination
- Ensure solutions meet USPS security and compliance expectations
- Stay current on technologies, industry trends, and USPS policies and standards
- Drive responsible use of AI-assisted development to improve speed and quality and reduce rework
- Establish guardrails for secure and compliant AI usage
- Track and communicate measurable outcomes from modernization and AI enablement efforts
- Mentor engineers and promote engineering excellence, continuous learning, and accountable delivery
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field from an accredited College/University
- If lacking a relevant four-year degree, an additional four years of relevant work experience is required
- 8+ years of demonstrated experience as a Technical Lead, Technical Architect, or senior engineer leading enterprise application design and delivery
- Ability to communicate with executive and management audiences, simplify technical topics, present tradeoffs, and recommend actionable paths forward
- Ability to guide development teams through architecture decisions, implementation patterns, and quality expectations while remaining hands-on when needed
- Experience conducting code reviews and establishing engineering standards for readability, testability, security, and maintainability
- Strong knowledge of modern architecture patterns, including layered architectures, microservices/service-oriented approaches, event-driven patterns, and API-first design
- Strong understanding of enterprise security and compliance fundamentals, including identity and access, least privilege, encryption, audit logging, and vulnerability management
- Experience working cross-functionally with USPS Managers, BSAs, and Technical Project Leaders
- Familiarity with environment management and release readiness practices across development, test, staging, and production environments
- Ability to collaborate with enterprise architecture and governance stakeholders, including CASI Architects and NIT leadership
- Strong documentation skills, including architecture diagrams, decision records, standards, and executive-ready summaries
- Working knowledge of AI-assisted development concepts and ability to establish secure guardrails
- Continuous learning mindset and ability to evaluate and apply new technologies within USPS standards and constraints
- Must obtain and maintain a Public Trust
- Must provide onsite fingerprinting at a designated facility
- U.S. residency requirement
- Selected candidate must have resided in the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for the last five years under the stated travel-duration conditions
- U.S. Citizenship is not required
Benefits:
- Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages
- 401K with company match
- Competitive pay
- Paid time off
- Full flex work weeks where possible
- Vacation, sick, personal time, and holiday leave
- Paid parental, military, bereavement, and jury duty leave
- 15 days of paid leave per calendar year for new employees, prorated based on hire date
- 10 paid holidays per year, prorated based on hire date
- Up to 160 hours of paid family leave in a rolling 12-month period for eligible employees
- Medical plan options, including plans with Health Savings Accounts
- Dental plan options
- Vision plan
- Short- and long-term disability benefits
- Life insurance
- Accidental death and dismemberment insurance
- Personal accident insurance
- Critical illness insurance
- Business travel and accident insurance
- AI-powered career tool identifying career steps and learning opportunities
- Internal mobility team supporting career goals
- Identity verification process using advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence
- Remote work
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