Appian Software Integration Architect

$122,200 - $220,900/Yr

Leidos - Reston, VA

Full-time

Remote - Reston, VA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Appian Software Integration Architect will play a crucial role in supporting the DIA-NMEC under the DOMEX Technology Platform contract. This position involves collaborating with a diverse team of engineers and architects to develop and maintain systems, focusing on both backend and frontend software engineering tasks. The role emphasizes innovation, collaboration, and professional development within a mission-focused environment.

Responsibilities

• Work with a team of system integration engineers to successfully deploy release candidates to production environment.
• Participate in test, staging and production deployment.
• Assist in the maintenance of services and procedures for a big data pipeline which includes Kafka, Elasticsearch, and several in-house written Python/Java microservices running on Kubernetes.
• Integrate Docker containers using Kubernetes, Rancher, Helm and other DevOpsSec integration tools.
• Monitor automated system integration tests to identify failed modules and components.
• Manage individual project priorities, deliverables, and deadlines.
• Foster an environment of collaboration with different team members to provide quality service and product to customers.

Requirements

• Typically requires Bachelor's Degree and 12-15 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 10-13 years of prior relevant experience.
• Must possess an Active Top Secret/SCI clearance and ability to obtain and maintain Poly.
• Experience with containerization, especially with Docker.
• Experience with DevOps practices and tools including Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tools and practices, especially Gitlab or Jenkins.
• Experience with Agile practices.
• Development and/or scripting experience, especially Python and Bash.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Enthusiastic with the ability to work well on a team and a self-starter who can work on their own.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with systems at scale.
• Experience with Appian.
• Experience with Appian Self-Assembling Interface Layer (SAIL).
• Kafka or other message passing systems.
• Experience on a production/enterprise system.
• Cloud infrastructure experience.
• Experience with Kubernetes monitoring, e.g., Prometheus/Graphana.
• GPU-based Kubernetes.
• SALT for deployment automation.
• Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Logstash, specifically admin experience.
• Helm and Helmfile.
• Cloudera usage, including Kafka topic creation/management, Zookeeper, Solr, and Flume.
• Nexus.