Agile Developer 4 [D.26.0191]

Requires Top Secret/SCI with Full Scope Poly

Salary Range: $234k-$256k per year with an additional $59k-$64k in immediately vested company 401(k) contributions

Description: Software Architect who will own the design, delivery, and evolution of our AWS infrastructure and associated application services. The ideal candidate blends deep AWS expertise (Lambda, OpenSearch, DynamoDB, SQS, CloudWatch, etc.) with hands on Java and Python development skills and can mentor a small team of junior engineers while driving architectural best practices across the program.

Responsibilities:

• Design & Blueprint - Create end to end, scalable, secure, and cost optimized architectures for event driven services, data pipelines, and search solutions on AWS.
• Hands On Development - Write production grade Java (Spring Boot) and Python (Lambdas) services that run as AWS Lambda functions or containerized workloads (Kubernetes).
• Infrastructure as Code - Define and maintain IaC, ensuring reproducibility and version control of the entire stack
• Data & Messaging Layer - Architect and implement solutions leveraging DynamoDB, OpenSearch, SQS, SNS for high throughput, low latency data access and streaming.
• Observability & Reliability - Implement comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting for CloudWatch and custom dashboards.
• CI/CD & DevSecOps - Be familiar with Gitlab pipeline, static code analysis, blue-green/canary deployments.
• Technical Leadership - Mentor 2 4 junior developers, conduct code reviews, run architecture deep dives, and champion best practice adoption (clean code, design patterns)
• Collaboration - Be able to communicate technical details / solutions as well as roadblocks to leadership and business stakeholders and provide robust solutions as needed.
• Documentation - Produce clear, up to date architectural diagrams, run books, and knowledge base articles to enable cross team consumption. Be able to prepare Standard Operating Procedure for frequently executed as well as on-call operations.

Basic Qualifications :

• Bachelors degree from an accredited college in a related discipline, or equivalent experience/combined education
• 12 years of relevant experience or a Master's degree plus 10 years of relevant experience.

Desired skills (2 of the below):

• Java, Spring boot or python
• Microservice architectures
• CI/CD Tools: AWS tools, Maven, Gitlab & GitOps; Kubernetes, docker
• Database : NoSQL / MongoDB Query and Schema Design
• OAuth/OIDC Implementation experience
• Test frameworks and automation to include Playwright and Cucumber