<h3>What We Are Building</h3><div>Chosen People Ministries operates a substantial and growing digital footprint: numerous WordPress websites, custom-built web applications, a highly customized FileMaker database, podcasts, email marketing, social media, and online education platforms serving more than twenty countries. As the ministry’s digital reach has expanded, so has the opportunity for dedicated technical leadership to unify and strengthen it.</div><div><br>The Platform Architect is CPM’s first senior technical hire and will be accountable for the health of this entire ecosystem. The role begins with a comprehensive audit of everything we operate, followed by a phased plan to remove redundancies, increase interoperability, streamline maintenance, and establish enduring engineering standards, security practices, and vendor policies. The goal is a focused, well-integrated set of systems that serve the ministry for the next decade.</div><div><br>The Architect will work closely with senior leadership to ensure technology advances the mission of praying for, evangelizing, discipling, and serving Jewish people worldwide.<br><br></div><h3>What You Will Do</h3><div><strong>Audit (First Priority)<br></strong><br></div><ul><li>Conduct a complete inventory and audit of all CPM digital properties: websites, hosting accounts, domains, codebases, databases, vendor contracts, credentials, and data flows</li><li>Assess each of CPM’s WordPress sites; recommend which to consolidate, redesign, or retire, and assign clear internal ownership for every property going forward</li><li>Consolidate and document CPM’s ownership of all source code, accounts, and infrastructure credentials; establish a standing policy that CPM retains full ownership of all code and systems built on its behalf, and apply it to all vendor and contractor agreements</li><li>Assess CPM’s custom-built web applications across code quality, security, UI/UX, and deployment practices; chart a path to modernize, rebuild, or retire each based on findings</li><li>Audit the FileMaker database and its customizations; evaluate whether CPM’s long-term interests are best served by extending FileMaker or planning a next-generation migration, and present that recommendation to leadership for a joint decision</li></ul><div><strong><br>Web Platform Strategy &amp; Engineering<br></strong><br></div><ul><li>Design and implement a consolidation strategy for CPM’s web presence (WordPress multisite with shared plugins/themes, custom React front-ends on a shared Node/Deno backend, or a hybrid) based on audit findings</li><li>Establish modern engineering practices across all properties: version control, code review, staging environments, CI/CD pipelines, and documentation</li><li>Perform hands-on development and remediation work where needed; advise on hiring consultants for multiplying effectiveness</li></ul><div><strong><br>Identity &amp; Donor Portal<br></strong><br></div><ul><li>Design and implement a single sign-on / identity strategy across CPM’s public-facing properties</li><li>Architect and deliver a secure donor portal that integrates with the donor database (currently FileMaker) through a hardened API layer, giving donors self-service access to their giving history and statements</li></ul><div><strong><br>Data &amp; Integration<br></strong><br></div><ul><li>Build a deliberate integration layer of well-defined APIs and data contracts between systems</li><li>Apply least-privilege access, and keep sensitive data (donor financial records, personal information) intentionally segmented or isolated where that is the safer design</li><li>Deliver dashboards and reporting for leadership from the systems of record</li><li>Establish data governance, privacy, and retention standards appropriate to donor data and international operations</li><li>Evaluate practical, cost-effective uses of AI, automation, and analytics for fundraising and ministry engagement</li></ul><div><strong><br>Cybersecurity &amp; Risk Management<br></strong><br></div><ul><li>Work with our security consultants to harden and secure all CPM properties and infrastructure, applying OWASP best practices, secrets management, patching discipline, and access controls</li><li>Assist the consultants in developing cybersecurity policies and incident response procedures</li><li>Oversee backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity planning</li><li>Ensure compliance with applicable privacy and nonprofit regulations in the U.S. and abroad</li></ul><div><strong><br>Leadership &amp; Vendor Management<br></strong><br></div><ul><li>Serve as strategic technology advisor to executive leadership; translate technical trade-offs into plain language for non-technical decision-makers</li><li>Lead vendor and consultant selection and contract oversight, including code-ownership, data-ownership, and exit clauses in every agreement</li><li>Exercise technology governance over staff projects: new websites, applications, integrations, and technology vendors will be approved by the Architect</li><li>Mentor CPM staff and raise the ministry’s overall technical capability</li><li>Build a culture of documentation so institutional knowledge is preserved and shared</li></ul><div><strong><br>Out of Scope<br></strong><br></div><ul><li>End user IT support, device management, and help desk are outside the scope of this role</li></ul><div><br></div><h3>What We Need</h3><div><strong>Required:</strong></div><ul><li><strong>10+ years of web and platform development—</strong>Including full-stack development and several years of architecture-level or technical-leadership responsibility.</li><li><strong>Modernization experience—</strong>You have led modernization or migration initiatives from legacy systems.</li><li><strong>Modern stack—</strong>Hands-on proficiency with React, Node or Deno, SQL, and REST API design.</li><li><strong>Engineering practices—</strong>CI/CD pipelines, Git-based workflows, and at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud).</li><li><strong>Security—</strong>Web application security and OWASP best practices.</li><li><strong>Identity and authentication—</strong>OAuth 2.0, OIDC, and/or SAML for single sign-on and portal work.</li><li><strong>Education—</strong>Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.</li></ul><div><strong><br>Highly Beneficial:</strong></div><ul><li>Experience with nonprofit technology, donor systems, or CRM platforms</li><li>FileMaker experience</li></ul><div><br></div><h3>Who You Are</h3><div><strong>Spiritually:</strong></div><ul><li>Mature believer with a close walk with the Lord</li><li>Heart for missions and evangelism, especially reaching Jewish people</li><li>Active in a local church/congregation</li><li>High moral character and integrity as outlined in Scripture</li><li>Aligned with our doctrinal statement</li></ul><div><br></div><div><strong>Professionally:</strong></div><ul><li>Pragmatic architect who right-sizes solutions to a nonprofit’s budget and staff capacity</li><li>Comfortable writing code, negotiating with vendors, and briefing senior leadership</li><li>Collaborative servant leader with excellent communication skills</li><li>Able to translate technical concepts for non-technical leaders</li></ul><div><br></div><h3>What Success Looks Like</h3><div>The milestones below describe the expected shape of the first two years. Specific goals and timelines will be refined jointly with the Architect once the initial audit is complete.<br><br></div><ul><li><strong>First 90 Days: Audit—</strong>Complete the full audit of systems, codebases, contracts, credentials, and security posture; consolidate documentation and ownership of all source code and accounts; deliver a prioritized plan and recommendations to leadership.</li><li><strong>First Year: Strengthen &amp; Architect—</strong>Implement priority security enhancements; build the digital library; consolidate or retire underutilized websites; establish version control, CI/CD, and engineering standards; deliver the FileMaker recommendation; complete the design of the donor portal and single sign-on architecture.</li><li><strong>First 24 Months: Modernize—</strong>Launch the donor portal with secure database integration; roll out single sign-on across active properties; substantially complete website consolidation and library rollout; execute or begin the agreed next-generation database plan; deliver improved fundraising and ministry reporting to leadership.</li></ul><div><br>The successful candidate will be both a strategic architect and a practical implementer: capable of thoughtfully assessing a diverse digital ecosystem, then unifying and modernizing it in realistic, well-sequenced phases that enable Chosen People Ministries to grow its global ministry impact over the next decade.<br><br></div><h3>Further Details</h3><div><br><strong>Reports to:</strong> Dr. Brian Crawford, Vice President of Academics and Digital Evangelism<br><br></div><div><strong>Location:</strong> Chosen People Ministries Headquarters, New York, NY (on-site required)<br><br></div><div><strong>Salary:</strong> $100,000 or commensurate with experience<br><br></div><div><strong>Benefits:</strong> Health and retirement benefits; paid vacation and ministry holidays; professional development opportunities; flexible work arrangements</div><div><br><br></div><h3>To Apply</h3><div>Send your resume and cover letter to bcrawford@chosenpeople.com<br><br></div><div><strong>In your cover letter, tell us:<br></strong><br></div><ol><li>About something you <strong>built</strong> (not just maintained)—what was it, what challenges did you solve, what was the outcome?</li><li>Give an example of when you took <strong>initiative</strong> to improve something without being asked.</li><li>Describe how you have <strong>collaborated with designers, strategists, or non-technical teammates</strong> to create user-centered experiences.</li><li>Why you are interested in using your technical skills to support Jewish evangelism and ministry</li></ol><div><br>Include links to websites or projects you have worked on (GitHub, portfolio, live sites, etc.). A GitHub profile or comparable portfolio is strongly encouraged.</div>

Platform Architect

<div><strong><br>Part-Time Contract Systems Engineer and Administrator<br></strong><br></div><div><strong><br>Engagement Type</strong></div><div><br>Part-time contractor for ongoing infrastructure engineering and operational support. Servicing a variety of nonprofit ministry and business clients, and an internal micro-SaaS product.<br><br></div><div><strong>Hours and Availability<br></strong><br></div><ul><li><strong>October–December 2026:</strong> Estimated 5–20 hours per week, including onboarding, environment assessment, and prioritized improvements.</li><li><strong>Ongoing:</strong> Estimated 5–10 hours per week for maintenance, technical escalations, and planned improvements.</li><li>These ranges are estimates, not guaranteed hours. Work will be prioritized with Guidelight leadership within the agreed hours.</li><li>Your agreed working schedule must provide at least four hours of overlap with normal Eastern Time business hours.</li><li>Planned maintenance typically occurs around <strong>5:00 a.m. Eastern Time</strong>. Maintenance windows are flexible and can be arranged around contractor and client needs.</li><li>Availability is required for agreed maintenance windows, which may fall outside normal business hours.</li><li>Other team members or client IT provide primary on-call coverage. Urgent technical escalations require a response outside agreed working hours when your expertise is needed. These have been infrequent: approximately two in the past year.</li><li>Additional hours for major upgrades, incidents, or release cycles can be approved with prior notice.<br><br></li></ul><div><strong><br>Overview<br></strong><br></div><div>Guidelight Technology Solutions seeks a pragmatic, reliable Systems Engineer and Administrator to help <strong>design, maintain, and improve cloud and hybrid environments</strong> supporting client applications and our own micro-SaaS product.</div><div><br>You will work across three product and client environments, including AWS EC2 infrastructure and client-hosted Ubuntu systems. The work combines infrastructure design with hands-on operations: improving reliability and recoverability, maintaining servers and automation, supporting deployments, and implementing safe infrastructure changes.<br><br></div><div>You will collaborate with two full-time developers, Guidelight leadership, and client IT stakeholders. We are looking for someone who can assess an environment, explain practical tradeoffs, recommend improvements, and carry approved work through implementation and documentation.</div><div><strong><br>Guidelight’s owner remains the primary contact for customer requests and handles initial triage and prioritization.</strong> You will own assigned infrastructure work and technical escalations, coordinating directly with developers, client IT, and end users when needed to resolve those assignments.<br><br>Client work includes Pro-Life and other Christian nonprofits.</div><div><strong><br>Responsibilities<br><br></strong>1. Infrastructure Design and Improvement<br><br></div><ul><li>Assess existing environments and identify reliability, security, recovery, maintainability, and cost improvements.<br>Design and maintain highly available AWS EC2 environments.</li><li>Document proposed changes, practical tradeoffs, implementation plans, and recovery or rollback approaches.</li><li>Review recommendations with Guidelight leadership and implement approved designs.</li><li>Maintain a prioritized improvement backlog alongside routine operational work.<br><br></li></ul><div>2. Linux Systems Administration<br><br></div><ul><li>Administer Ubuntu Linux servers across staging, production, and other environments.</li><li>Perform OS patching, security updates, package upgrades, and planned maintenance.</li><li>Maintain container runtimes and supporting infrastructure services.</li><li>Apply configuration changes to meet client security policies.</li><li>Maintain baseline hardening, access controls, SSH hygiene, and environment separation.<br><br></li></ul><div>3. Operational Reliability and Monitoring<br><br></div><ul><li>Maintain and improve monitoring using AWS tooling and existing Telegraf, InfluxDB, and Grafana stacks.</li><li>Tune dashboards and alerts so they are meaningful, actionable, and routed to the appropriate responders.</li><li>Expand monitoring coverage as services and deployment patterns change.</li><li>Investigate service failures, performance issues, and infrastructure anomalies.</li><li>Handle assigned technical escalations, involving developers or client IT as appropriate.</li><li>Develop and maintain runbooks and operational documentation.<br><br></li></ul><div>4. Backups and Recovery<br><br></div><ul><li>Manage application-level backups, including PostgreSQL backups and backup automation.</li><li>Monitor backup completion and investigate failures.</li><li>Verify recoverability through planned restore drills.</li><li>Document recovery procedures and dependencies.</li><li>Coordinate with client IT on system-level backups and snapshots where those are client-owned.</li><li>Identify gaps between application backups and system-level recovery arrangements.<br><br></li></ul><div>5. Release Support and Deployment Operations<br><br></div><ul><li>Support frequent application releases in collaboration with developers.</li><li>Build and maintain GitHub Actions workflows and deployment automation.</li><li>Maintain staging-to-production release promotion processes.</li><li>Implement deployment health checks, smoke tests, and rollback procedures.</li><li>Maintain Docker images, Compose services, runtime configuration, and environment consistency.</li><li>Own infrastructure and runtime upgrades, validating changes in staging before production deployment.</li><li>Coordinate changes that affect application compatibility with developers, who own application code, code-library upgrades, and functional testing.<br><br></li></ul><div>6. Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management<br><br></div><ul><li>Maintain AWS infrastructure through Terraform, including EC2, security groups, IAM, S3, and networking configuration.</li><li>Follow safe Terraform practices for planning, review, state management, and applying changes.</li><li>Maintain and extend an established Ansible repository.</li><li>Keep playbooks idempotent, readable, and aware of environment differences.</li><li>Use automation to make infrastructure changes repeatable and auditable.<br><br></li></ul><div>7. Limited Windows Infrastructure Support<br><br></div><ul><li>Provide basic Windows administration and troubleshooting for endpoints supporting Microsoft Access applications.</li><li>Coordinate endpoint and access issues with client IT.</li><li>Support the infrastructure on which legacy PowerShell ETL scripts run, including permissions, scheduled tasks, connectivity, and execution environments.</li><li>Collaborate with Guidelight developers, who own the PowerShell scripts and application logic.<br><br></li></ul><div><strong>Required Skills and Qualifications<br></strong><br></div><ul><li>Strong production experience administering <strong>Ubuntu Linux</strong>.</li><li>Production experience managing <strong>AWS EC2</strong> infrastructure.</li><li>Ability to design and maintain highly available environments and explain failure modes and recovery approaches.</li><li>Strong operational fundamentals: patching, troubleshooting, log analysis, incident investigation, and safe change management.</li><li>Production <strong>Docker</strong> operations experience.</li><li>Practical <strong>Terraform on AWS</strong> experience.</li><li><strong>Ansible</strong> proficiency for system configuration and deployment automation.</li><li>Experience building or maintaining CI/CD workflows using <strong>GitHub Actions</strong> or similar tooling.</li><li><strong>PostgreSQL operations</strong> experience, including backups, restores, upgrade planning, and basic performance troubleshooting.</li><li>Monitoring experience with <strong>CloudWatch, Telegraf/InfluxDB/Grafana, or comparable tools</strong>.</li><li><strong>One to two years of basic Windows administration or helpdesk experience</strong>.</li><li>Sound security practices, including least privilege, secret handling, access management, and environment separation.</li><li>Strong written communication and the ability to maintain clear tickets, change records, and runbooks.</li><li>Ability to collaborate with technical and nontechnical stakeholders and work independently on agreed priorities.<br><br></li></ul><div><strong><br>Nice to Have<br></strong><br></div><ul><li>Experience with OpenTelemetry.</li><li>Experience operating data and analytics platforms such as Dagster, Superset, and Python API services.</li><li>Familiarity with Microsoft Access environments and troubleshooting PowerShell execution.</li><li>Experience improving release processes, deployment pipelines, and automated validation gates.</li><li>CompTIA Network+, Linux+, or comparable credentials.<br><br></li></ul><div><strong><br>What Success Looks Like</strong></div><div><br>During the initial engagement, you will develop a working understanding of the environments, document significant operational gaps, and agree on a prioritized improvement backlog with Guidelight leadership.<br><br></div><div>Over time:<br><br></div><ul><li>Managed systems follow documented maintenance and patching routines.</li><li>Critical services have actionable monitoring and an identified response owner.</li><li>Backup failures are detected, and agreed restore drills are completed and documented.</li><li>Releases use appropriate validation and rollback procedures.</li><li>Infrastructure changes are reviewed, repeatable, and auditable.</li><li>Runbooks enable other team members to respond effectively.</li><li>Infrastructure recommendations balance reliability, security, cost, and the available maintenance budget.</li><li>Assigned work is completed with clear communication about progress, blockers, and decisions needed.<br><br></li></ul><div><strong><br>About Guidelight<br></strong><br></div><div>At Guidelight Technology Solutions, we value humility, integrity, and competence. We support nonprofits and businesses that depend on reliable systems and thoughtful technical stewardship.</div><div><br>Our work requires discretion, respect for client confidentiality, and a high level of professional ethics. We value people who communicate clearly, exercise sound judgment, and take responsibility for their work.<br><br></div><div><br></div>

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