Description
We are seeking an exceptional Solutions Architect Subject Matter Expert (SME) to join the Chinook Program supporting an application for an Intelligence Community (IC) customer. As a Solutions Architect SME, you will serve as the senior technical authority for the Chinook Program, providing architecture leadership for the application and its supporting technical ecosystem.
The position requires a highly experienced technical leader who can operate at both the strategic and hands-on levels, establishing architectural direction while working closely with engineering teams to solve difficult technical problems and deliver mission capabilities.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Serve as the senior technical authority for the application, defining and evolving end-to-end solution architecture across application, cloud, data, integration, security, and infrastructure domains.
- Translate mission, business, operational, functional, and non-functional requirements into secure, scalable, resilient, and maintainable technical solutions.
- Develop architecture strategies, roadmaps, reference architectures, and design patterns, and lead trade studies to recommend solutions based on mission value, feasibility, risk, cost, performance, and maintainability.
- Provide technical direction to engineering teams, review designs, resolve cross-team technical issues, and ensure implementation aligns with approved architecture and standards.
- Lead cloud and DevSecOps architecture efforts, including cloud-native design, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, automated deployment, observability, resiliency, and disaster recovery.
- Integrate security and mission assurance into architecture decisions from the start of the development lifecycle, including risk identification and mitigation.
- Support Agile and SAFe execution through PI Planning, backlog refinement, architecture runway development, dependency management, and release readiness activities.
- Define and govern integration strategies, API and interface standards, and interoperability approaches across application components and external systems.
- Communicate architecture decisions, risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations to program leadership, customer stakeholders, and technical teams in terms of mission and business impact.
- Mentor engineers and technical leaders, promote engineering excellence and continuous improvement, and drive modernization and reduction of technical debt.
Basic Qualifications:
- US citizenship is required per contract.
- Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 12-15 years of prior relevant experience or Master's with 10-13 years of prior relevant experience.
- 12+ years of progressive experience as a Solutions Architect, Enterprise Architect, Systems Architect, Software Architect, or equivalent senior technical role.
- Significant experience designing and implementing complex enterprise or mission-critical applications.
- Strong experience with software architecture, distributed systems, system integration, APIs, data, and cloud technologies.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience supporting large-scale government or mission-focused programs.
- Demonstrated experience using AI tools to optimize system performance, or the ability to identify and articulate practical applications of AI to support the responsibilities outlined in the job description.
- Expertise in cloud-native architecture, distributed systems, and enterprise modernization.
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional or comparable certification.
- Experience with:
- Python or C++.
- Linux operating systems in support of application deployment, automation, and systems support.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
- Terraform.
- AWS CloudFormation.
- Azure Resource Manager.
- Ansible.
- Chef.
- Puppet.
- Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery or Continuous Deployment (CI/CD).
- Microservices.
- RESTful APIs.
- Event-driven architecture.
- Distributed systems.
- DevSecOps.
- Observability and monitoring.
- Experience with identity and access management and Zero Trust architectures.
- Experience with system-of-systems integration.
Pay Range: $131,300.00 - $237,350.00