Genesis is a leadingbusiness combining innovative digital transformation capabilities and enablingagile delivery skills to provide industry-leading solutions to the federalgovernment. Genesis has an opportunity to work on one of the largest and mosttechnologically advanced cloud, agile, and product development projects withinthe federal contracting space. This $300M contract encompasses agiletransformation and integrating dozens of mission critical applicationsoperating in a public AWS GovCloud that is managed with a hyper-convergeddatacenter and is protected by a world class active cyber defense solution.

Dutiesand Responsibilities:

The Technical Architect will provide development,security, and operations (DevSecOps) coaching to agile delivery teams that arebuilding highly complex integrated solutions for a federal agency.On this team, you will be coaching teams thatare operating and modernizing complex, legacy, large-scale, web applicationsolutions and IT systems in the cloud using forward-thinking, modern,open-source technologies and backend systems.You will be working with teams to optimize the continuous deliverypipeline, improve CI/CD practices, and accelerate value delivery.Focus on establishing technical Governance,tool strategies, team efficiencies, automation, testing, coding practices,end-to-end integration and overall quality of products being delivered.Work with user experience designers toincorporate user centric design requirements into development practices.Other duties and responsibilities include butmay not be limited to:

• Architecting the overall system, byusing prototyping and proof of concepts, which may include modern programminglanguages (e.g., Ruby, Python, Node.js) and web frameworks (e.g., Django,Rails); relational databases, and automated configuration management (e.g.,Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Salt), continuous integration/deployment, and continuousmonitoring solutions; use of version control systems, specifically Git andGitHub.
• Architecting the overall system, byusing prototyping and proof of concepts, which may include:

• Ability to work with modern programminglanguages (e.g., Ruby, Python, Node.js) and web frameworks (e.g., Django,Rails)
• Modern front-end web programmingtechniques (e.g., HTML5, CSS3, RESTful APIs) and frameworks (e.g., TwitterBootstrap, jQuery)
• Working in relational databases (e.g.,PostgreSQL), and “NoSQL” databases (e.g., Cassandra, MongoDB)
• Automated configuration management(e.g., Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Salt), continuous integration/deployment, andcontinuous monitoring solutions

• Use of version control systems,specifically Git and GitHub
• Ensuring strategic alignment oftechnical design and architecture to meet business growth and direction, andstay on top of emerging technologies
• Decomposing business and systemarchitecture to support clean-interface multi-team development
• Align client organization with newtechnology, tools, development methods, platform engineering, continuouslyevolving development patterns and technology, and implementation planning 
• Increase the adoption of and build teamtechnical capability within organization for code development, automatedtesting and frameworks, continuous delivery/continuous integration, by guidingengineers on Agile technical best practices and emerging technology andtools 
• Analyze and support new and emergingtechnology such as clustering, scheduling, workload balancing, delivery andmonitoring in cloud computing environments 
• Assist in cloud strategy andmigrations, Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelinestandards and implementations, and plan for transforming infrastructure intoservices enabling continuous delivery 
• Review, evaluate and experiment withnew and emerging tools and technology on an as-needed basis.
• Present and report on results of newand emerging tools and technology reviews, evaluations, alternatives analysisand experiments 
• Where applicable, integrate new oremerging tools and technology into the agency across the enterprise 
• Collaborate with development teams andappropriate groups to develop headless, reusable platform solutions that can beleveraged by other development teams 
• Identify, pair-program, prototype andapply solutions and approaches for simplifying, decomposing and refactoringapplications for high scalability and faster deployments 

Requirements

MinimumQualifications/Experience:

• Minimum Five (5) years’ experience serving as themanager of complex technology implementations, with an eye toward constantreengineering and refactoring to ensure the simplest and most elegant systempossible to accomplish the desired need.
• Experienced serving as a manager of complextechnology implementations, with an eye toward constant reengineering,configuration management, and build management to ensure the simplest and mostelegant system possible to accomplish the desired need. This role requiresproficiency with Maven, Hudson, and or Jenkins.
• Experience conducting prototyping and proof ofconcept experiments for requirements 
• Experiences performing technical debt andrefactoring coaching for development teams 
• Experience staging development activities to inorder to facilitate development team on boarding transitions 
• Experience closing out development activities inorder to allow development teams to transition to other work 
• Experience conducting software evaluations 
• Experience with deployment automation andorchestration tools such as:

• Ansible or Chef 
• Terraform, Bash, PowerShell, Perl, Ruby, JavaScriptand Python 
• J2EE, Hibernate, Spring, Database Skills(RDMS) 
• Microservices, Docker and OpenShift 
• Groovy, KAFKA, Apigee, Eclipse, GIT, Gradle,Jenkins 
• Cloud service providers such as AWS, Azure andGCP 

• Experience with enterprise database technologies, such asPostgres and MySQL
• Ability to communicate complex concepts tostakeholders with varying levels of subject matter expertise 
• Strong understanding of IT enterprise architectureand government systems 
• Familiarity with the interoperability of various ITplatform environments 
• Familiarity with back-end IT “language” within anagile environment 
• Experience providing verbal and writtenpresentations on technical topics in knowledge sharing events
• Strong understanding of IT enterprise architectureand government systems 
• Experience with the following toolset:

• JIRA expert 
• Requirements Lifecycle tool 
• Grafana 
• Power BI 
• GitHub 
• Confluence 
• CloudBees CI/CD 

Minimum Education:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degreeand 5 years’ experience

Required Certifications:

• PMP, CSM, ITIL, and/or SAFeCertifications preferred

Other:

• Must be US Citizen
• Willingness to be on-site in New Carrollton(Lanham), Maryland
• Willingness to travel and/or telecommute onoccasion depending on customer needs