Director of Technology

Why do you need to choose between doing important work and having a fulfilling life? At Ardent, we have both. Ardent employees are committed to solving our customers’ most difficult problems—and we are committed to the well-being, personal goals, and professional development of our employee. We are “All In.” We put forth our strongest effort possible to get the mission accomplished and we do it together. We respect the skills and experience you bring to the Ardent team. And we provide a rewarding environment to help you succeed. 

We offer highly competitive benefits, professional development opportunities, and an exceptional culture that embraces flexibility, innovation, collaboration, and career growth. A collective service mindset underpins our work, and a shared camaraderie to serve clients, colleagues and our communities set us apart. Our full commitment to being "All In" for our employees and our clients is not just our approach, it is our standard. If this sounds like the perfect fit for you, choose Ardent and make a difference with us. 

Ardent is seeking a Director of Technology to join our team.  

This is a Remote position but will require regular travel to the Washington, D.C. Metro area and/or client sites as needed. 

Position Description:

Ardent is seeking a passionate Director of Technology who is experienced in performing and leading complex cloud-based solutions and products for Federal needs. Our Director will lead corporate innovation, go-to-market strategies, and proposal solution development in collaboration with the best business and technical strategists and top engineers. When needed, you may lead-by-example system architecture work for a complex enterprise system/product with emphasis on scalability and efficiency by adhering to enterprise architecture framework. 

Responsibilities:

• Working with the government, vendors, and teaming partners to integrate systems for the overall success.
• Creating effective business and technical cloud and DevSecOps strategies and solutions that drive growth and execution.
• Leading solutions and technical proposal responses, ultimately responsible for high quality and compliant technical volumes.
• Identifies and owns entire technical solution requirements in the development of enterprise-wide data-driven information systems.
• Creates specific technical design, product and vendor selection, application, and technical architectures.
• Provides subject matter expertise on applicable technologies and platforms and leads decision process to identify the best options.
• Ensures strategic alignment of technical design and architecture to meet business growth and direction and stay on top of emerging technologies.
• Develop and design complex solutions, through collaboration, across a variety of cloud, applications data, data-centric applications, AI/ML and/or Big-Data cloud architectures.
• Hands-On Solution Architect, owning and responsible for complete technical solutions.
• Lead an organization of machine learning, software, DevOps and data engineers to deliver on an ambitious agenda around building an industry leading machine learning tools and products.
• Recruit, mentor, and retain top engineering talent.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, Business Administration or relevant field
• 7 years of experience in enterprise architecture, designing and architecting (minimum of 3 categories): large cloud scale applications, data-centric engineering, cloud engineering, AI/ML, and/or DevSecOps solutions
• Industry experience in the Federal government consulting environment
• 5 years of experience in decomposing application components and determining how to leverage various technologies found with modern cloud services
• 7 years implementing engineering best practices, iterative/continuous engineering principles
• Experienced designing cost-optimized cloud scalable solutions
• Experienced fixing architecture issues that impact scalability and performance for large systems with large datasets.
• Experience with Agile project collaboration tools (e.g. Atlassian Jira, Confluence)
• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Experience working in an Agile or SAFe environment
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DHS clearance; residing in the United States

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Ardent is an equal opportunity employer. We will not discriminate and will take affirmative action measures to ensure against discrimination in employment, recruitment, advertisements for employment, compensation, termination, upgrading, promotions, and other conditions of employment against any employee or job applicant on the bases of race, color, gender, national origin, age, religion, creed, disability, veteran's status, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.