Product Architect

About the position

CACI is seeking a Product Architect to join our team and support the Border Enforcement Applications for Government Leading-Edge Information Technology (IT) (BEAGLE) contract. You will have the opportunity to apply your knowledge, skills and experience to building a truly modern application that is new development and cloud native. You will work in a SecDevOps environment that includes continuous integration/continuous deployment and test automation in a consistent agile software development framework. If you thrive in a culture of innovation and bring creative ideas to solve complex technical and procedural problems at the team and portfolio levels, then this opportunity is for you! Join this passionate team of industry-leading individuals supporting best practices in agile software development for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). You will support the men and women charged with safeguarding the American people and enhancing the nation’s safety and security. CBP agents and officers are on the front lines, every day, protecting our national security by combining customs, immigration, border security, and agricultural protection into one coordinated and supportive activity. ASF programs thrive in a culture of innovation and are constantly seeking individuals who can bring creative ideas to solve complex problems, both technical and procedural at the team and portfolio levels. As an Architect for an Agile team, you will design and implement comprehensive application architecture encompassing user interface, API, microservices, databases and infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for defining and implementing product architecture, ensuring scalability, performance and reliability.
• Design and implement novel approaches to fulfill business needs, including new tools, development strategies, and testing strategies, and evangelize solutions with multiple peers.
• Maintain sound understanding of enterprise and program level architecture.
• Liaison with business analysts to understand business needs and develop solutions that meet business needs, technical feasibility and comply with enterprise and program level architecture and standards.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies by leading in all technical aspects, including leading the platform demos to the Product Owner and all applicable stakeholders.
• Collaborate with the SecDevOps team and onboard new applications to the cloud-based infrastructure.
• Evangelize the developed solution to team members and work with team members to slice and dice stories into tasks and support efficient task execution to meet project deadlines.
• Motivating developers, testers and creating a space where they can ask questions and voice their concerns.
• Provide technical guidance and leadership to cross-functional teams through mentoring, coaching, and peer reviews.
• Keep up to date with industry trends and developments.
• Designing solutions in a Multi-Tenant Cloud Architecture.
• Identifies risks, opportunities, compliance issues or other architectural concerns.
• Active participation in Agile ceremonies, artifact creation, sprint testing, regression testing, demonstrations and retrospectives and solution releases.
• Review Cybersecurity Assessments and Static Code Analysis of developed software to define remediation's and improve software quality.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, including architecture diagrams and design documents.
• Taking high-level business requirements and mapping them to tasks for developers and testers.
• Designing technical solutions using established standards and breaking them down into units of work for your team.
• Working with business analysts to ensure coverage of requirements.
• Creating a roadmap to production for your product in a phased approach, considering legacy system decommissioning.
• Overseeing project construction, reviewing pull requests, ensuring test coverage, maintaining high quality code, mentoring developers, removing blockers, and presenting your team’s product to various stakeholders.
• Systems design, systems development, systems integration, application design.
• Experience migrating legacy applications to microservices based architecture deployed to the cloud.
• Anticipating issues and formulating remedial actions.
• Collaborating with Developers, Program Managers, Testers, UI/UX, and Production Support Engineers to implement innovative technical solutions via iterative approach reducing time to delivery.

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to pass CBP background investigation.
• 10+ years' overall experience in software development, including hands-on experience with programming, software design patterns, and architecture as a software architect, tech lead, or a senior developer.
• A bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field.
• Must be able to work on-site in Ashburn, VA 2-3 days per week.
• Expertise in Java and associated frameworks such as Sprint/Spring boot, Kendo UI and libraries such as React, Spring, Hibernate.
• Expertise in design patterns, object-oriented programming (OOP), and other software design methodologies to create modular, scalable, and maintainable systems.
• Professional experience operating within cross-functional teams and groups.
• Knowledge of different software development processes, such as Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, or DevOps, and their implications on architectural decisions.
• Expertise in various architectural styles, such as client-server, microservices, event-driven, or layered architectures, and their trade-offs.
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud) and understanding of distributed system concepts, including scalability, fault tolerance, and data consistency.
• Experience in RESTful APIs and experience designing, implementing, and integrating APIs in a secure and efficient manner.
• Experience with relational (e.g., Postgres) and NoSQL (e.g., DynamoDB, MongoDB) databases, data modeling, and data storage best practices.
• Skills in analyzing and optimizing software performance, including profiling, benchmarking, and code optimization techniques.
• Experience in baseline management and best practices for merges and version control.
• Understanding of common software security vulnerabilities and strategies to mitigate them, such as input validation, secure coding practices, and encryption.
• Hands-on development with Amazon AWS, Java (Spring/spring boot), React, PostgreSQL, JavaScript, browser technologies such as HTML, HTTP and CSS and JavaScript framework such as Kendo UI.
• Experience with DevOps practices, including continuous integration and continuous development and deployment tools such as Harness, Jenkins, GitLab or Bamboo.
• Strong experience with containerization technologies (Docker) and orchestration Tools (Kubernetes).
• Able to work a hybrid schedule with an on-site requirement in Ashburn, VA.

Nice-to-haves

• Having served in a technical lead role for one or more product teams.
• Optional but beneficial certifications include AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect.
• Having contributed to development of enterprise architecture and standards and ability to enforce these standards.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to succinctly present complex subject matter specifically translating technology problems/solutions to business partners.
• Ability and desire to stay current with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in software architecture.
• Excellent technical, diagnostic, and troubleshooting skills.
• Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to analyze complex issues and develop creative solutions.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits such as healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, family support, continuing education, and time off benefits.