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Product Architect

Job Category: Information Technology

Time Type: Full time

Minimum Clearance Required to Start: None

Employee Type: Regular

Percentage of Travel Required: Up to 10%

Type of Travel: Local

General Description:

Are you tired of working to patch legacy applications and ready to put your knowledge, skills and experience to work building a true modern application that is new development, cloud native, working in a SecDevOps environment including real Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment, Test Automation, in a consistent Agile Software Development Framework?

CACI is currently looking for Product Architect with agile methodology experience to join our BEAGLE (Border Enforcement Applications for Government Leading-Edge Information Technology) Agile Solution Factory (ASF) Team supporting Customs and Border Protection (CBP) client located in Northern Virginia!

Join this passionate team of industry-leading individuals supporting the best practices in Agile Software Development for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). As a member of the BEAGLE ASF Team, you will support the men and women charged with safeguarding the American people and enhancing the Nation’s safety, security, and prosperity. CBP agents and officers are on the front lines, every day, protecting our national security by combining customs, immigration, border security, and agricultural protection into one coordinated and supportive activity.

ASF programs thrive in a culture of innovation and are constantly seeking individuals who can bring creative ideas to solve complex problems, both technical and procedural at the team and portfolio levels. The ability to be adaptable and to work constructively with a technically diverse and geographically separated team is crucial.

You should have worked with or have a strong interest in agile software development practices and delivering deployable software in short sprints.

What you’ll get to do:

• Identifies risks, opportunities, compliance issues or other architectural concerns
• Pursue new methods for fulfilling business requirements, including new tools, development strategies, and testing strategies, and evangelize solutions with multiple peers
• Review Cybersecurity Assessments and Static Code Analysis of developed software to define remediation's and improve software quality.
• Motivating developers, testers and creating a space where they can ask questions and voice their concerns.
• Evangelize the developed solution to team members and work with team members to breakup stories into tasks and assist in completion of tasks in timely fashion
• Develop product teams technical skills through mentoring, coaching, and peer reviews.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies by leading in all technical aspects, including leading the platform demos to the Product Owner and all applicable stakeholders
• As a technical lead for an agile team, you are responsible for all aspects of application architecture including user interface, APIs, microservices, databases, and infrastructure
• Maintain sound understanding of enterprise and program level architecture
• Active participation in Agile Scrum sprint planning, artifact creation, sprint testing, regression testing, demonstrations and retrospectives and solution releases
• Work with business analysts and scrum master to create implementation/development plan for new features/applications/solutions by developing epics and stories
• Keep up to date with industry trends and developments
• Designing solutions in a Multi-Tenant Cloud Architecture that will support legacy .NET, Java, and COTS client/server applications
• Collaborate with the SecDevOps team to onboarding new applications to the cloud-based infrastructure
• Liaison with business analysts to understand business needs and develop solutions that meet business needs and comply with enterprise and program level architecture and standards
• Performs Architecture design and reviews as required, ensuring initiatives are aligned with future state
• Delegating tasks and ensuring all daily, sprint and release goals are achieved

You have:

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams and convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• A bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field.
• 7+ 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.
• Knowledge of RESTful APIs and experience designing, implementing, and integrating APIs in a secure and efficient manner.
• Knowledge of different software development processes, such as Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, or DevOps, and their implications on architectural decisions.
• Skills in analyzing and optimizing software performance, including profiling, benchmarking, and code optimization techniques.
• Awareness of common software security vulnerabilities and strategies to mitigate them, such as input validation, secure coding practices, and encryption.
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud) and understanding of distributed system concepts, including scalability, fault tolerance, and data consistency.
• Familiarity with relational (e.g., Postgres) and NoSQL (e.g., DynamoDB, MongoDB) databases, data modeling, and data storage best practices.
• 1 year check for misconduct such as theft or fraud
• 1 year check for illegal drug use
• Expertise in various architectural styles, such as client-server, microservices, event-driven, or layered architectures, and their trade-offs.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to pass CBP background investigation, criteria include but are not limited to:
  • 3 year check for felony convictions
  • 1 year check for illegal drug use
  • 1 year check for misconduct such as theft or fraud
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages, such as Java, or JavaScript, and experience with various development frameworks and libraries, such as Angular, Spring, Hibernate.
• Ability and desire to stay current with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in software architecture.
• 3 year check for felony convictions
• Familiarity with 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.

You are good at:

• Anticipating issues and formulating remedial actions
• Creating a roadmap to production for your product in a phased approach, considering legacy system decommissioning
• Excellent technical, diagnostic, and troubleshooting skills
• Designing technical solutions using established standards and breaking them down into units of work for your team
• Systems design, systems development, systems integration, application design
• Hands-on development with our tech stack: Java (Spring), Angular, PostgreSQL, Amazon AWS
• Taking high-level business requirements and mapping them to tasks for developers and testers
• Collaborating with Developers, Program Managers, Testers, UI/UX, and Production Support Engineers to implement innovative technical solutions via iterative approach reducing time to delivery
• Working with business analysts to ensure coverage of requirements
• Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment tools such as Jenkins, GitLab, CloudBees, or Bamboo
• Experience migrating legacy applications to microservices based architecture deployed to the cloud
• 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.

Bonus would be having:

• Optional but beneficial certifications include AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect.
• Having served in a technical lead role for one or more product teams.
• Having contributed to development of enterprise architecture and standards and ability to enforce these standards
• Experience in Continuous integration, Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) as well as SecDevOps processes and tools
• Deep experience in our tech stack: Java 17, Spring/Spring boot, Typescript, UI state management, ORM such as Hibernate, PostgreSQL, Amazon AWS

Company Overview: At CACI, you will have the opportunity to make an immediate impact by providing information solutions and services in support of national security missions and government transformation for Intelligence, Defense, and Federal Civilian customers. CACI is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected characteristic.

Pay Range: The proposed salary range for this position is $89,500-$188,000. There are a host of factors that can influence final salary including, but not limited to, geographic location, Federal Government contract labor categories and contract wage rates, relevant prior work experience, specific skills and competencies, geographic location, education, and certifications. Our employees value the flexibility at CACI that allows them to balance quality work and their personal lives. We offer competitive compensation, benefits and learning and development opportunities. Our broad and competitive mix of benefits options is designed to support and protect employees and their families. Employment benefits include health and wellness programs, income protection, paid leave and, life insurance, retirement and savings.