Software Architect

Position: Software Architect

Durations: Longterm

Location: Herndon, VA(Hybrid Work)

Client: (Department of state) DOS

Clearance: Active Secret clearance

Description

As part of the modernization program, the Software Architect will be responsible for providing architecture and development guidance across the software development lifecycle (SDLC), including requirements definition and prototyping, software design, implementation, testing, and maintenance.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Research, evaluate, and recommend tools and technologies for the CSM Program.
• Work with the system engineering team to elicit customer requirements and develop system engineering models using a model-based engineering strategy (UML and SysML).
• Define software requirements, both functional and non-functional, as high level epics, features and user stories to support Agile methodology.
• Architect complex software systems using hybrid cloud architecture and microservices.
• Define and communicate architectural guidelines for software systems architecture and design.
• Design software using industry standard design patterns and best practices to improve maintainability, flexibility, performance, security, and availability.
• Provide development support and expertise across a wide range of technologies, including enterprise web-based applications using Java technologies, single-page applications, REST-based web services, structured and unstructured data architecture, and automated unit and integration tests.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree and at least 8 years’ relevant experience.
• Experience in software development activities for software projects specializing in development of enterprise web applications.
• Experience architecting and developing high volume, highly available and secure software systems within an Agile environment.
• Experience developing service-based solutions using REST-based services (Spring MVC, Spring Boot, etc.)
• Experience developing structured transactional database solutions using an RDBMS database (Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.)
  Experience with static code analyzers (CAST, HP Fortify, SonarQube, etc.).
• Excellent communication skills, both verbally and in writing.
• Active Secret (or higher) clearance. Interim clearance acceptable.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in enterprise software system modernization efforts.
• Experience in cloud-based environments including the development of software that supports architectures that involve hybrid clouds.
• Experience developing 508 compliant solutions.
• Experience developing single page applications using a client-side rendering framework (Angular, React, etc.) and responsive CSS framework (Bootstrap, Material Design, etc.)

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree and at least 8 years’ relevant experience.
• Experience in software development activities for software projects specializing in development of enterprise web applications.
• Experience architecting and developing high volume, highly available and secure software systems within an Agile environment.
• Experience developing service-based solutions using REST-based services (Spring MVC, Spring Boot, etc.)
• Experience developing structured transactional database solutions using an RDBMS database (Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.) Experience with static code analyzers (CAST, HP Fortify, SonarQube, etc.).
• Excellent communication skills, both verbally and in writing.
• Active Secret (or higher) clearance. Interim clearance acceptable.

CompQsoft provides equal opportunity in all aspects of employment and in the working environment to all employees and applicants. CompQsoft does not take any non-merit factors like race, color, religion, sex (gender), mental/physical disability, and age into account for purposes of recruitment, hiring and development.