Executive Office of Technology Services and Security · 5 hours ago
Technical Architect - MyMassGov
Boston, MA
Contract
Hybrid
Senior Level
5+ years expThe Executive Office of Technology Services and Security (EOTSS) is the lead enterprise technology organization for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, focusing on enhancing public service through technology. As a Technical Architect, you will provide technical leadership and direction for the MyMassGov team, overseeing software engineering practices and collaborating with various stakeholders to ensure the delivery of high-quality solutions.
Information Technology & Services
Responsibilities
Leading software engineering teams. This is a senior role, and other members of the team will look to you for guidance on advanced technical concepts and for mentorship to grow as engineers and team members
Working with large-scale web applications. The solutions you will oversee will be available to millions of Massachusetts constituents. Software projects at this scale present specific complexities and challenges, and we think you’ll be most successful if you have previously held a senior technical role on at least one large scale software project
Modern tools and programming languages. We would like you to have deep hands-on experience with a few of these things, familiarity with most, and willingness to be proactive and learn about these or other technologies in the Massachusetts Digital Service stack:
Backend languages and frameworks: Node.js, Python, PHP
REST API frameworks in your preferred language(s)
Front end JavaScript frameworks: React, Angular, Vue
Relational database systems: MySQL, Postgres
WAF and CDN services (CloudFlare, Akamai)
Version control systems and package managers: Git, npm, pip, composer
CI/CD tools for your preferred language(s)
Automated testing frameworks for your preferred language(s)
Infrastructure-as-a-service providers: Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform
Infrastructure as code tooling: Terraform, Cloud Formation, Serverless.com
Working on projects with external vendors. Many of our product teams are composed of both external vendors and internal team members. We will rely on you to advocate for Mass Digital with our vendors to ensure that your engineering team is delivering high-quality software. We will also rely on you to help build expertise internally on the solutions delivered by our vendors
Qualification
Required
Proven technical leader with experience working on large, complex systems
Experience in defining the direction for a product's technology stack
Ability to translate complexity in large-scale public sector applications into clear written guidance
Experience in defining and implementing software engineering processes and tooling
Knowledge of Git workflow, coding standards, code review process, continuous integration / continuous deployment tooling
Experience in collaborating with engineers, product owners, and vendors' technical leads
Ability to align product's technical direction with Commonwealth's standards
Experience leading software engineering teams
Experience working with large-scale web applications
Deep hands-on experience with backend languages and frameworks: Node.js, Python, PHP
Familiarity with REST API frameworks in preferred language(s)
Experience with front end JavaScript frameworks: React, Angular, Vue
Experience with relational database systems: MySQL, Postgres
Knowledge of WAF and CDN services (CloudFlare, Akamai)
Experience with version control systems and package managers: Git, npm, pip, composer
Experience with CI/CD tools for preferred language(s)
Experience with automated testing frameworks for preferred language(s)
Experience with infrastructure-as-a-service providers: Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform
Experience with infrastructure as code tooling: Terraform, Cloud Formation, Serverless.com
Experience working on projects with external vendors
Preferred
Project teams that follow an implementation of Scrum, or a similar Agile framework
Performance testing and tuning
Company
Executive Office of Technology Services and Security
Within the Commonwealth of MA, the Executive Office of Technology Services and Security, (EOTSS) is the state’s lead agency for technology and innovation.
201-500 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageLeadership Team
Bill Cole
Chief Technology Officer
Anthony J. O'Neill
Commonwealth CISO & Chief Risk Officer
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