Technical Lead

Join Our Team at Niyam IT: Embrace Diversity, Excel Together

Are you ready to be part of a dynamic, inclusive, and fearless team that values your well-being and individuality? At Niyam, we're not just a company; we're a close-knit community of experts and leaders dedicated to providing IT solutions for esteemed clients.

Niyam provides IT solutions to improve system efficiency while optimizing the value that we deliver to our customers. Our team members have the drive and the right mindset to take ownership of the projects they work on. They partner with our customers, going the extra mile when necessary to ensure success.

What We Offer:

• Comprehensive Benefits: We've got you covered with 100% company-paid health, dental, vision, life, and AD&D insurance.
• Peace of Mind: Enjoy free short-term and long-term disability coverage, ensuring your financial security in any situation.
• Flexible Work Hours: Life doesn't always fit into a 9 to 5 schedule. We offer flexibility to help you manage your work-life balance effectively.
• Remote and Hybrid Work: Niyam understands the value of flexibility. We offer remote and hybrid work options on our projects.
• Paid Time Off: Recharge and rejuvenate with our generous paid time off policy.
• Retirement Plans: We care about your future. Niyam offers retirement plans to help you secure your long-term financial goals.
• Career Growth: Niyam is not just a job; it's a career journey. We provide a supportive environment for your professional development and offer fully paid opportunities (including technology and business conferences) for training and advancement within the company.
• Great People: Our people are the blueprint of who Niyam is to the industry and community.
• Great Environment: Niyam fosters a great environment where innovation, collaboration, and personal growth thrive.
• Diversity & Inclusion: We believe in the strength of diverse perspectives. Your unique ideas are welcomed and celebrated every day at Niyam.

Join us in creating a workplace where innovation, diversity, and well-being thrive. Your journey at Niyam awaits. Apply today

Niyam is seeking an experienced Technical Lead/Cloud Application Architect to join our team in support of our work with one of our federal clients. We offer competitive compensation and benefits. This position will be onsite approximately two times per month.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Serve as a cloud application architect and senior technical advisor across multiple programs, guiding teams on cloud-native architecture, platform standards, and implementation approaches.
• Define, review, and evolve application architectures in AWS (experience with Azure or Google Cloud a plus), ensuring scalability, security, and alignment with federal compliance requirements.
• Establish and maintain reference architectures, architectural patterns, and reusable design standards for cloud-based applications.
• Review system designs, technical approaches, and implementation plans, providing architectural guidance and risk mitigation recommendations.
• Advise teams on effective use of managed cloud services and architectural patterns (e.g., serverless, event-driven, and container-based approaches).
• Define and recommend full-stack technology standards and architectural patterns supporting application development, front-end modernization, and data processing pipelines.
• Strong hands-on background in full-stack development to support architectural direction, including Java-based APIs, Python services, and modern JavaScript front-end frameworks.
• Design and govern application integration strategies and API standards to enable secure, scalable data exchange across enterprise systems.
• Design and govern RESTful API architectures primarily implemented in Java, with Python-based services used where appropriate.
• Partner with DevOps and platform teams to define and standardize CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and deployment practices.
• Provide technical oversight to ensure adherence to coding standards, security controls, and quality expectations.
• Review and advise on remediation of architectural, security, or functional gaps identified during development or testing.
• Create and maintain architectural documentation, diagrams, and technical standards to support knowledge sharing and long-term maintainability.

Qualifications and Education Requirements

• US Citizenship with ability to obtain a Public Trust.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field.
• 10+ years of experience in IT, including at least 3 years in technical leadership roles.
• Demonstrated experience serving as an architect or senior technical advisor across multiple teams or programs
• Strong understanding of modern application architectures and full-stack technology ecosystems (front-end, backend, and integration layers).
• Strong hands-on background in full-stack development, including Java-based APIs, Python services, and modern JavaScript front-end frameworks
• Hands-on experience designing or developing front-end applications using Angular in enterprise or federal environments.
• Hands-on experience authoring and maintaining Terraform or AWS CloudFormation templates.
• Experience with containerization and serverless architectures.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to influence technical direction without direct line authority.

Preferred Skills

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect certification.
• Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field.
• Familiarity with compliance standards like FedRAMP, SOC 2, or ISO 27001.
• Prior experience in Agile/Scrum development methodologies.

Application Deadline: This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

Niyam IT, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity ("EEO") Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, marital status, partnership status, age, citizenship status, veteran or military status, medical condition, genetic information, national origin, disability, unemployment status or any other characteristic prohibited by federal, state and/or local laws.

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