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Software Architect 
In this role you will lead the architecture, technical evolution, and operational design of a large-scale, globally distributed mission platform deployed across multiple countries and managed remotely from the United States.
This platform supports real-time transaction processing, distributed data management, integration with external government and commercial systems, peripheral/device orchestration, and centralized observability and administration.
The successful candidate will be the overall software architecture authority for a modern Linux-based platform composed of approximately 25 core microservices and a broad set of supporting/integration services. The environment is cloud-heavy, distributed, operationally critical, and deployed in both constrained edge settings and larger centralized/cloud environments.
This role requires someone who can define and govern architecture while remaining grounded in the realities of runtime operations, resilience, fieldability, and maintainability.
What You'll Be Doing:  * Own the overall software architecture for a distributed microservices platform running across global environments * Maintain and evolve an ecosystem of approximately: * 25 core Java-based microservices * a comparable set of supporting and integration services * Define and govern architecture across: * service boundaries and contracts * data flows and event patterns * control plane and backplane behavior * node roles and deployment topologies * observability, fault tolerance, and service recovery * Lead architecture for a platform based on: * RHEL / Rocky Linux * Java (JDK 21+) * Vue.js 3 frontends * MongoDB for persistent data * Elasticsearch / Logstash and RabbitMQ for ephemeral/search/event data flows * Consul, Nomad, and Vault for service discovery, orchestration, and secrets management * Architect deployment patterns for multiple node types, including: * server nodes * data nodes * arbiter nodes * workstation/user-facing nodes * Guide the technical design of core operational services responsible for: * transactional processing * rules/screening/correlation workflows * authorization and access control * reference/master data management * language/internationalization support * health/status services * biometric or matching-oriented services built on open-source components * Oversee architecture for peripheral/device services supporting integration with a broad set of external devices and sensors * Lead integration architecture for external standards-based and partner system interfaces, including: * third-party government systems * commercial travel/identity/manifest-style systems * country/customer-specific extensions * Ensure the platform remains remotely observable, supportable, and maintainable across all deployments * Partner with cloud, network, security, data, field engineering, and operations teams to align architecture with deployment realities * Review and guide software design decisions, technical debt reduction, modernization priorities, and roadmap sequencing * Serve as a senior technical authority in design reviews, readiness reviews, problem resolution, and major incident analysis What Required Skills You'll Bring:  * Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or related technical field. 4 Additional years of experience can substitute for a degree. * 12+ years of software engineering experience, including significant time in software architecture roles for distributed or mission-critical systems * 5+ years architecting microservices-based platforms in production * Demonstrated ability to serve as the technical authority over a multi-service software ecosystem * Experience guiding multiple development teams and reviewing architecture across service boundaries * Strong written and verbal communication skills, including ability to produce design artifacts and present architecture decisions clearly * Experience balancing long-term architecture quality with delivery constraints and operational realities * Deep hands-on expertise with: * Java on modern JDKs, preferably JDK 21+ * Linux-based production environments, preferably RHEL / Rocky Linux * distributed service design and operational patterns * Strong experience with: * MongoDB * Elasticsearch / Logstash * RabbitMQ or equivalent event/messaging platforms * service discovery/orchestration/secrets technologies such as Consul, Nomad, Vault, Kubernetes, or similar * Experience designing systems that operate across: * constrained edge environments * centralized or cloud-heavy environments * globally distributed deployments with intermittent or variable connectivity * Proven ability to architect for: * resilience and graceful degradation * observability and diagnosability * secure service-to-service communication * multi-role user administration and authorization * remote support and lifecycle management * TS/SCI minimum clearance required. * Domestic and/or international project travel may be required. What Desired Skills You'll Bring:  * Master’s degree in Data Engineering, Computer Science, Analytics, or related field * Experience with Vue.js 3 and modern frontend architecture patterns for administrative or operational interfaces * Experience with hybrid cloud and cloud-heavy deployments where backend services are centralized and edge nodes are thin * Experience integrating with external standards-based government, identity, travel, or partner ecosystems * Experience designing platforms that manage or integrate with peripherals/devices such as scanners, readers, imaging devices, kiosks, or other edge hardware * Experience with Nomad/Consul/Vault specifically in production * Experience architecting systems with zero/low downtime upgrade paths * Experience with semantic, cognitive, or advanced search use cases on Elasticsearch * Familiarity with event replay, reconciliation, and offline-sync patterns * Experience working closely with field engineering or remote deployment teams * Experience with large-scale modernization of legacy monoliths to service-oriented or microservices-based platforms *   * Familiarity with open-source biometric, matching, search, or image processing components * Experience with multilingual/internationalized systems deployed across multiple countries or regions * Experience supporting operational analytics/reporting services built on transaction/event data * Experience with CI/CD pipelines and release discipline for multi-service distributed systems Security Clearance Requirement: An active Top Secret SCI security clearance is required for this position.