Software Architect, Lead

Booz Allen Hamilton•San Antonio, TX

2d•$112,900 - $257,000•Remote

About The Position

Are you looking for an opportunity not just to develop software, but to architect event-driven platforms and low-latency streaming systems that have an immense impact in the defense industry? As a Solution Architect, you’ll lead end-to-end product design—from vision to production—for real-time data ingestion, processing, and delivery. Using agile lifecycle development and Git-based workflows, you’ll partner with full-stack engineers and data scientists to operationalize data-intensive capabilities across mission systems.

Requirements

8+ years of experience in software architecture, design, and code review in production systems
2+ years of experience building real-time services, defined as WebSockets‑driven data pipelines that transmit and process raw data with no observable delay to human users, with Node.js, TypeScript and React for console and Operations UIs
Experience with REST APIs, WebSockets, and C#
Experience Agile Methodology, Git, JavaScript, CSS, Swagger, OpenAPI, Client and Server Side Development, RESTful APIs, AWS, and Azure
Experience with relational, such as PostgreSQL or SQL Server, and NoSQL, such as MongoDB or DynamoDB, data architectures at scale
Experience with delivery with data streaming technologies and distributed message queues, including strong unit and integration test frameworks
Experience with production with Docker and Kubernetes for scalability
Ability to travel up to 25% of the time
Secret clearance
Bachelor's degree

Nice To Haves

Experience with Big Data technologies, such as Python, Kafka, Spark/Flink, or ksqlDB
Experience performance engineering for low-latency pipelines
Experience with game engines, such as Unity, Unreal, or Prepar3D a plus
Experience with C++
Possession of excellent critical thinking, decision making, and detail oriented skills

Responsibilities

Define and own streaming architecture, such as pub/sub, fanout, or backpressure, and event-driven microservices for high-availability and fault tolerance.
Select, configure, and scale distributed messaging, such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or AWS SNS/SQS, WebSockets/gRPC, and API gateways.
Establish data contracts and schema evolution, such as Avro, Protobuf, or JSON Schema, with registry, serialization, and compatibility policies.
Design for observability, such as OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, and SLOs, and drive resiliency patterns, such as idempotency, retries, or circuit breakers.
Lead cloud-native deployments on Docker and Kubernetes; guide infrastructure choices across AWS or Azure.
Set security-by-design standards, such as encryption in transit/at rest, authN/authZ, or secrets management in partnership with DevSecOps.
Mentor engineers, review designs and code, and champion SDLC best practices, automated testing, and documentation.