Job Title: Solution Architect
Location: Remote
Clearance Required: Public Trust Clearance
Position Type: Full-Time
About the company:
At VivSoft, we aim to solve complex federal problems using emerging and open technologies in a collaborative and rewarding environment. VivSoft is a diverse team of strategists, engineers, designers, and creators experienced in building high-performance, effective software, with a focus on impactful organisational design and software delivery dynamics. We build secure Software Factories based on DoD reference designs and NIST Frameworks for Cloud and DevSecOps. These factories deliver AI/ML Applications, Data Science Platforms, Blockchain and Microservices for DoD, Healthcare and Civilian Agencies
Job Summary:
The Solution Architect is the technical authority for the ARES production program. This role sets and enforces architectural standards across multiple development teams, owns cross-team dependency resolution, governs the data model in partnership with the Data Architect, and ensures architectural decisions remain consistent with the OpsEA Salesforce Government Cloud Plus Defense platform constraints. This is a working technical leader who is present in sprint planning, architecture reviews, development activity, and hands-on problem-solving.
Key Responsibilities:Set and maintain architectural standards for the ARES Salesforce implementation across all development teams (e.g. naming conventions, metadata organization, technology decision framework, platform-native-first principles)
Own the cross-team dependency log; facilitate program planning to surface and sequence inter-team dependencies
Define and maintain the team working agreements between development teams
Review senior developer architecture decisions across development teams; provide guidance to resolve technical blockers
Own tech documentation (e.g. architecture, DevSecOps pipeline, sequence diagrams, data model, and data dictionary)
Govern the branch strategy for concurrent development; define merge cadence and conflict resolution protocol
Support the RMF/ATO workstream by providing architecture documentation to the Security Engineer
Required Skills & Qualifications:Eligibility to obtain a Public Trust clearance.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
Minimum of 5+ years of Salesforce solution architect experience, preferably in public sector/federal government space
Expert-level knowledge of OpsEA Salesforce platform and associated technologies (e.g. PSF, Shield, BRE, CRM Analytics, Flows, Apex, PSGs, OWD sharing model)
Experience with Flosum or comparable Salesforce-specific CI/CD tooling
Experience as a tech lead or architect across multiple concurrent agile delivery teams
Strong leadership, negotiation, and executive communication skills
Salesforce Certified Technical Architect or Application Architect
Preferred Skills & Qualifications:Active U.S. Government Secret or TS/SCI security clearance.
Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
Experience deploying on Salesforce Government Cloud Plus (IL-4 or IL-5)
Understanding of FedRAMP High authorization requirements
Familiarity with NIST SP 800 and the Salesforce control inheritance mode
Salesforce Certified Development Lifecycle and Deployment Architect
Benefits: Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision Plans (Healthcare benefits are 100% employer-paid for employees only)
Life Insurance
Paid Time Off (Flexible/Combined PTO, Bereavement Leave, 11 Company Paid Holidays)
401K Retirement Plan with employer match
Professional Development Training Reimbursement.
Flexible/remote work schedules.