Software Design Architect

Overview:

The Solution Architect is responsible for architecting and implementing multiple products and features in parallel; will be responsible for translating overall business requirements and vision to a technical architecture and developing working prototype, overall solution and frameworks as needed.

Responsibilities:

• Present proposals to senior government officials in a clear and compelling way; has a balance of business and technology acumen, including ability to articulate high- level technical solutions to business problems and to tie solutions to program success criteria.
• Conduct business and technical discovery with customers and provides recommendations for engagements while also identifying critical dependencies and gaps.
• As needed, independently applying a wide set of engineering disciplines for planning, design, analysis, coding, testing, roll-out and support of software products
• Be responsible for:
  • The designing of interface standards, quality assurance standards, performance standards, and cost-benefit analysis of modem state-of-the art information systems; analyzes available technologies and makes recommendations of technologies to use and how best to use them
  • Designing highly complex solutions with multiple applications with high transaction volumes.
• Create system architecture and design documents to include detail software architecture diagram, logical and physical deployment views using UML
• Serve as the technical and technology expert supporting the crafting of the application architecture aspects of the solution, as well as supporting the implementation of the solution.
• Review proposed new development and/or enhancements to validate feasibility and assists with scoping and estimating work.
• In coordination with others, monitor and analyze production performance, while looking for ways to optimize and scale existing solutions.
• Ensure strategies, standards, and architecture are consistent and well-integrated across products.
• Help developers to adopt new platforms through documentation, training, and mentoring

Qualifications:

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field and 10+ years of experience including:
  • 10+ years of full-lifecycle application development lead experience
  • 6+ years of experience in architecting large-scale systems
  • 6+ years of experience in building multi-tier applications using webservices / APIs / microservices
  • 5+ years of experience using Agile/Lean methodologies, continuous deployment, automated testing, and DevSecOps
  • 4+ years of experience with Nodejs and React
• Experience in or knowledge of developing systems utilizing AWS Cloud-native designs
• Demonstrated experience as a technical lead of a large-scale migration to a cloud infrastructure (AWS)
• Experience on multiple application development projects with similar responsibilities
• Superior written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present technical details and interface with various groups such as project team, clients, and senior executives
• Demonstrated experience architecting, building and deploying technical solutions that use multiple data stores targeting specific application use cases including multiple technologies including but not limited to SQL and noSQL databases
• Ability to obtain Federal Government Public Trust

Preferred:

• Experience with legacy system modernization
• Experience with large scale data migration
• Experience with Serverless computing
• Experience with scaled agile frameworks
• Master's degree preferred
• Highly prefer candidates residing in the DC Metro area or Eastern time zone