Senior Technical Architect

Company: Ad Hoc
Location: Mount Rainier
Posted on: January 15, 2026

Job Description:

Our collaborations have shaped some of the defining moments in public-sector service delivery. We’ve helped build products that connect Veterans to tailored services, help millions access affordable health care, and support important programs like Head Start. As we work with agencies to deliver critical services, we’re also changing how the government approaches technology. Our culture, communications, and tools are built for remote work, enabling us to bring together top talent nationwide. At Ad Hoc, remote life empowers our teams to design work environments that fit their lives and that foster flexibility and collaboration to achieve positive outcomes for our customers. Ad Hoc values acceptance, accountability, and humility. We aren’t heroes. We learn from our mistakes and improve the process for the next time. We build small, inclusive teams to collaborate closely with our partners to solve the right problems and deliver software that works. The Federal Civilian business unit supports many customers spanning the federal, commercial, and nonprofit space. Our customers include NASA, the General Services Administration, Office of Personnel Management, the Library of Congress, Health & Human Services, and the FDIC. We partner with these agencies to build new capabilities, deliver products, establish data as a strategic asset for informed decision-making, modernize legacy systems, and build the digital service infrastructure necessary to scale their mission impact. Primary Responsibilities: Senior Technical Architect serves as an experienced individual contributor within a team, with the expectation that you will further develop your leadership, guidance and mentoring skills. With minimal oversight from leadership, you will be responsible for managing the development technical solutions, supporting the development of requests for information and requests for proposals, and ensuring adherence to organizational processes and policies. A Senior Technical Architect impacts the long-term goals of the department by providing strategic recommendations in support of operational efficiencies and growth. You may serve as the primary lead when working with stakeholders and utilize strong influential skills to drive consensus and assignments to closure. Primary expectations of a Senior Technical Architect include: • Strong influential skills and knowledge of government contracting and specific needs of government agencies • Presents to both external and internal stakeholders on technical solutions and government technology • Works closely with the technology team to support and drive the strategic focus and alignment of client technical solutions • Maintaining awareness and understanding of existing and target customer agency policy, priorities, and strategy as it relates to information technology and user needs • Develops and maintains relationships with key stakeholders at existing and target customer agencies • Supports and advises Ad Hoc account teams as they identify and pursue growth opportunities • Supports the Growth team in effectively communicating the impact and value of Ad Hoc’s work in the proposal product • Serves as a subject matter expert in support of developing solution strategies with the Growth team and practitioners from Ad Hoc’s Product, Engineering, and Experience discipline areas • Articulates the challenges of government agencies and translating this into digital services solutions in partnership with Technology leaders • Develops artifacts and processes that support Ad Hoc’s Technology and Growth functions • Stays current on emerging technologies and how they relate to Ad Hoc’s current and future work, and communicating this internally and externally • Educates the organization on the value of proposed solutions, including thought leadership work that can be used internally and externally • Ability to understand technical requirements and articulate solutions that meet the desired outcome • Provides overall staffing recommendations in order to deliver upon customer objectives Basic Qualifications: • Bachelor’s degree and 10 years of experience • Extensive experience with current and emerging technologies used in software development, customer facing conversations, software solution development, enterprise software sales, facilitation tools, and technical writing • Prior experience in mentoring and leading tasks to completion Preferred Qualifications: • Prior government contacting experience

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