Software Architect with Security Clearance

Software Architect

Manassas, VA, Manassas, VA, United States

Full-time Job Description

Join a high-impact mission to bring next-generation software to the Navy’s warfighters. As part of the Software Architecture and Engineering Team, you won’t just write code, you’ll shape the future of defense technology. We’re looking for a visionary Software Architect to lead the design of modern, resilient software solutions that power critical naval operations. This elite team sets the gold standard for engineering excellence across the organization, driving best practices and establishing scalable architectures. In this role, you’ll apply your deep expertise in design patterns, software craftsmanship, and architectural principles to tackle complex problems from logical separation of concerns to end-to-end system design. If you're passionate about building robust, future-ready applications that make a difference where it counts, we want to hear from you. Key Responsibilities : Establishing Engineering best practices and guidelines for software design and implementation across the organization.

Provide hands-on experience, guidance, and strategy, around Design Pattern solutions and their application, Modular Code, Microservices Design, Service Oriented Architectures, Event and Test Driven Design, Model Based Systems Engineering (Model Based Design, Model Driven Design), separation of Data / Interface / Processing layers, and reusable function and code design, and similar techniques.

Establishing reusable templates and code libraries, and processes and guidelines for contributing to them, and evangelizing their shared use across the organization.

Provide strategy and guidelines for consolidating and standardizing implementation solutions for future reuse.

Collaborating with Software Application Product teams each sprint, to provide consultation and guidance around design of implementation solutions.

Lead Design Review boards and discussions.

Design and Develop Prototypes and Proofs of Concepts.

Encourage and facilitate knowledge sharing and upskilling among software engineers.

Cataloging and maintaining an inventory of implementation solutions across the organization. Qualifications

Active DOD Secret or Top Secret clearance required.

Proven experience as a Principal Software Engineer, Software Architect, or Lead Software Engineer, helping teams and organizations make final decisions on architecture and technology decisions.

Experience running and participating in code reviews for a team.

Hands-on coding experience in each of 3 of the following programming languages : C / C++, C#, Java, Go, NodeJS, JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Perl, PHP.

Hands-on coding experience designing and implementing databases and database schemas for a production software system, with experience in both Relational and NoSQL data stores, covering at least two different data store systems (i.e. Postgres, MSSQL, Oracle, MariaDB / MySQL, MongoDB, Redis).

Hands-on coding experience building and deploying production containerized software applications for either Docker, DockerSwarm, Kubernetes, or OpenShift (or similar).

Hands-on coding experience with either ReactJS or Angular (or a similar front-end framework)(experience with ReactJS preferred).

Hands-on coding experience with Data Caches, Data Indexes, Data Streams, or Data Queues (experience in all of these preferred).

Experience developing and deploying production software applications in at least one of the following cloud providers : AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure.

Hands-on experience designing and implementing Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).

Hands-on experience authoring validation and test suites for use within CI / CD pipelines to cover software application functional / integration / regression testing.

Must have experience in authoring or implementing automated test harnesses and testing frameworks, and authoring Test Suites, for both unit tests, and for automated functional / integration tests, to be used within CI / CD pipelines and other automated development environments.