Product Architect

C Mack Solutions LLC•Ashburn, VA

8h•$150,000 - $175,000•Hybrid

About The Position

C. Mack Solutions is looking for a Product Architect with agile methodology experience to join our team and support a complex program to provide Agile development and operations and maintenance for critical systems on a mission-critical program for the Federal Government business needs.

Requirements

Must live within the DC, MD, VA area.
U.S. Citizenship is required.
Candidate must have an Active CBP Public Trust clearance.
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
Expertise in Typescript, Postgres SQL, Postgres Streams, Gemini AI, webRTC, and Geospatial software, must have both design and hands-on experience with these technologies
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, 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) 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 and GitLab
Strong experience with containerization technologies (Docker) and orchestration Tools (Kubernetes)
Able to work a hybrid schedule with an on-site requirement of 1-2 days a week 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 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

Responsibilities

Defining and implementing product architecture, ensuring scalability, performance and reliability
Designing and implementing novel approaches to fulfill business needs, including new tools, development strategies, and testing strategies, and evangelizing solutions with multiple peers
Maintaining sound understanding of enterprise and program level architecture
Liaising 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
Participating in Agile ceremonies by leading in all technical aspects, including leading the platform demos to the Product Owner and all applicable stakeholders
Collaborating with the SecDevOps team and onboarding new applications to the cloud-based infrastructure
Evangelizing the developed solution to team members and working 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
Providing technical guidance and leadership to cross-functional teams through mentoring, coaching, and peer reviews
Keeping up to date with industry trends and developments
Designing solutions in a Multi-Tenant Cloud Architecture
Identifying 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
Reviewing Cybersecurity Assessments and Static Code Analysis of developed software to define remediations and improve software quality
Developing and maintaining 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