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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.
What You Must Have
- 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.
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 theirexpertiseand collaborate with others to achieve personal and professional goals. For more information, please read our EEOpolicy.
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 withsincerely heldreligious beliefs, in all phases of the application and employment process. To requestan accommodation,please email Candidateaccommodation@icf.com and we will be happy toassist. All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extentrequiredto provide needed reasonable accommodations.
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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 orassistwith responses during interviews (whether in-person or virtual) is notpermitted. This policy is in place tomaintainthe integrity and authenticity of the interview process.
However, we understand that some candidates may require accommodation that involves the use of AI. Ifsuch anaccommodation is needed, candidates are instructed to contact us in advance at candidateaccommodation@icf.com. Weare dedicated to providingthe 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:
$108,476.00 - $223,134.00Nationwide Remote Office (US99)
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