Lead Application Architect - SME

Essnova Solutions, Inc.•Suitland, MD

2h•Hybrid

About The Position

Essnova Solutions is seeking an experienced Lead Application Architect – SME to support a large-scale federal application modernization initiative supporting the U.S. Census Bureau. This role will provide senior technical leadership in the design and modernization of enterprise applications using modern microservices, API, event-driven, containerized, and cloud-based architecture patterns. We are looking for an architect who combines deep application architecture expertise with practical knowledge of modern enterprise development technologies.

Requirements

15+ years of relevant application architecture and technology experience.
Senior/SME-level experience designing complex enterprise applications.
Demonstrated experience with: Spring Boot
Demonstrated experience with: Microservices architecture
Demonstrated experience with: REST
Demonstrated experience with: SOAP
Demonstrated experience with: Kafka
Demonstrated experience with: Docker
Demonstrated experience with: Kubernetes/EKS

Nice To Haves

Professional-level AWS, Azure, or GCP Solutions Architect certification
CCSP
DevOps certification or equivalent experience

Responsibilities

Design enterprise application architectures supporting modernization initiatives.
Define scalable microservices-based application architectures.
Develop architecture patterns for enterprise application integration.
Support modernization and transformation of legacy applications.
Design and guide implementation of REST and SOAP service integrations.
Support event-driven architectures and Kafka-based integrations.
Define containerization and orchestration approaches.
Collaborate with developers, systems engineers, cloud teams, security professionals, and other architects.
Develop architecture documentation, technical standards, and solution designs.
Provide senior technical guidance throughout application modernization efforts.