IT Architect / Subject Matter Expert

Leidos • Clarksburg, WV

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About The Position

We are seeking an experienced IT architect and subject matter expert with a strong experience in software engineering including a backend focus and full-stack capabilities to design, build, test and maintain scalable software systems. This role will play a key part in architecting backend services, developing APIs, and collaborating with development team to deliver reliable, high-performance applications. The ideal candidate has experience providing the architectural-level guiding vision for complex projects and systems, including backend systems, cloud-native architectures, testing, and modern CI/CD practices and tools, while also being comfortable contributing across the full stack and front-end when needed.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, related field, or equivalent experience.
• 12–15+ years (or 10-13 years with Master’s Degree) of professional software development experience.
• Must hold an active Top Secret security clearance.
• Strong backend development experience in languages such as: Java Spring Boot Hibernate Hibernate using native queries
• Strong automated testing experience in end-to-end testing, regression testing, integration testing, etc
• Experience building RESTful APIs and microservices architectures.
• Strong knowledge of relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.)
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Experience with agile project management software such as Jira, Confluence, etc.
• Familiarity with containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with version control systems such as Git.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines such as Gitlab.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, design patterns, and system scalability.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with frontend frameworks (React, Angular, or Vue).
• Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Experience with observability tools (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana).

Responsibilities

• Provide a guiding vision for project and systems development at an over-arching architectural level.
• Elicit an understanding of customer priorities and system functionality needs, translating those into elements of an architectural guidance roadmap.
• Decompose architectural guidance roadmap into Agile Epics, Features and Stories.
• Recommend SAFe Agile Planning Interval and Iteration workloads for timely implementation of customer priorities expressed in Epics, Features and Stories.
• Design and develop scalable backend services, APIs, and microservices.
• Create and maintain full-scale testing architecture plans and system design for software application.
• Build, test, and maintain high-performance, secure, and reliable applications.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, customers, and engineers to deliver new features.
• Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code following best practices.
• Review code and mentor junior engineers.
• Optimize applications for performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Support CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure for application.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, standups, and retrospectives, and PI planning events.
• Troubleshoot production issues and implement long-term solutions.
• Functions as a technical expert across multiple project assignments.

Benefits

• Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level