Software Architect

Sev1Tech LLC - New Orleans, LA

Full-time - Senior

New Orleans, LA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

Sev1Tech is seeking a Software Architect to lead the modernization of legacy applications for the Navy PEO MLB. This role involves defining application development platform requirements, overseeing the software development team, and utilizing extensive knowledge in various development languages and best practices to enhance the modern development environment. The Software Architect will be responsible for migrating legacy applications to containerized solutions and developing enterprise applications using a range of technologies.

Responsibilities

• Oversee and prioritize tasking for the architectural design, development, and implementation of the legacy suite of applications.
• Provide expertise and guidance for the design, development, implementation, and sustainment of IT solutions that enhance overall system performance and availability.
• Provide technical knowledge and analysis of high-level functional systems analysis, design, and integration advice on complex matters.
• Lead migration of legacy applications to containerized solutions such as Openshift, Kubernetes, EKS, Konvoy.
• Develop enterprise applications and services using Java, Python, Angular/ReactJS, AWS services, Kafka, ELK, and other open source tools.
• Play a key role in planning and executing cloud migration, establishing enterprise architecture standards, communication, and collaboration strategies.
• Conduct engineering system development tasks including system requirements analysis, system architecture and design, preliminary design, critical design, system integration, formal verification, and formal validation.
• Produce technical documentation in support of engineering solutions that include architectural drawings, detailed design specifications, and thorough implementation instructions.
• Monitor and test application performance for potential bottlenecks, identify possible solutions, and work with developers to implement those fixes.
• Maintain security, backup, and redundancy strategies.
• Write and maintain custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks.

Requirements

• Must have DOD Secret level clearance to start; U.S. Citizen required only for Federal Clearance Requirement.
• Certification Requirement: Directive 8570.1/8140 - IAT II: Security+.
• Master's or equivalent experience and 12+ years of prior relevant experience in software design and development using containerized and microservices based components.
• Demonstrated expertise in software development, including requirements analysis and system architecture design.
• Extensive understanding and experience programming and designing software using Java, J2EE, Angular, React, Spring MVC/Boot, JQuery, JSF, JSP, MyBatis, Hibernate, IBM MQ, Kafka, ELK, PLSQL, Oracle, WebLogic, Tomcat and AWS cloud services.
• Experience with modern development software, tools, and methodologies; Jenkins, GitLab, Jira, Nexus, Maven, OpenShift, SonarQube, Fortify, Junit, Karma, Selenium, Cyprus, Docker, Artifactory.
• Experience with API Design and Management.
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing complex IT solutions on a large Navy Program.
• Demonstrated experience designing and modernizing complex enterprise networks and legacy IT systems, including developing effective COOP/DR solutions.
• Excellent communication and written skills.
• Must be a self-starter, strong leader, and have the ability to work independently with little supervision.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with NIST SP 800 series or ISO 27000 series documents for information security management and risk assessment.
• At least one nationally recognized vendor certification.
• Cloud Technical, Business or TCO Accreditation.
• Cloud Architect, DevOps or SysOps Associate or Professional Certification.
• Experience working in a Scaled Agile or Scrum of Scrum software development organizational structure.
• Demonstrated experience deploying containerized solutions within a Navy Production level environment.
• Knowledge of AWS Relational Database Services.
• Experience with Helm Charts.
• Experience with Performance Optimization and Scalability.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Opportunities for career progression
• Supportive work environment
• Focus on employee development