Solution Architect

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Niyam is seeking an experienced Solution Architectto support one of our federal clients. We are seeking an experienced Solution Architect to lead application architecture across agile teams guiding the design of scalable secure and cloud-based solutions that align with enterprise standards. This role partners closely with business analysts product architects and development teams to translate business needs into well-architected solutions while mentoring teams and driving technical excellence. The Solution Architect will introduce new technologies conduct architecture reviews and collaborate with SecDevOps to ensure quality security and compliance. This position requires strong hands-on technical expertise leadership skills and the ability to work in a hybrid environment supporting mission-critical systems.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Guide agile teams in all aspects of application architecture including user interface APIs microservices databases and infrastructure

• Pursue new methods for fulfilling business requirements including new tools development strategies and testing strategies and evangelize solutions with multiple peers

• Maintain sound understanding of enterprise and program level architecture and align agile team solutions to wider enterprise standards

• 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

• Work with product architects tech leads and developers to create technical solutions within an established framework

• Propose and introduce new technology to peers and the project by executing proofs-of-concept

• Create and maintain architecture diagrams and data models including dependency tracking

• Collaborate with the SecDevOps team to onboard new applications to the cloud-based infrastructure

• Evangelize the developed solution to tech leads to breakup stories into tasks and assist in completion of tasks in timely fashion

• Motivating developers testers and creating a space where they can ask questions and voice their concerns.

• Keep up to date with industry trends and developments

• Delegate tasks and ensure all daily sprint and release goals are achieved

• Performs Architecture design and reviews as required ensuring initiatives are aligned with future state

• Design solutions in a Multi-Tenant Cloud Architecture that will support Java and COTS client/server applications

• Identifies risks opportunities compliance issues or other architectural concerns

• Active participation in architecture meetings across the portfolio where you can propose your solutions with peers

• Develop product teams technical skills through mentoring coaching and peer reviews.

• Review Cybersecurity Assessments and Static Code Analysis of developed software to define remediations and improve software quality.

Qualifications and Education Requirements

• US Citizenship with ability to successfully complete a federal background investigation.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Systems Software Engineering or related field .
• 7 years of software development experience including hands on experience with programming software design patterns and architecture in a software architect or teach lead role.
• Proficiency in multiple programming languages such as Java JavaScript and frameworks such as Spring Angular and Hibernate.
• 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.
• Knowledge of different software development processes such as Agile Scrum Waterfall or DevOps and their implications on architectural decisions.
• Expertise in various architectural styles such as client-server microservices event-driven or layered architectures and their trade-offs.
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g. AWS Azure or Google Cloud) and understanding of distributed system concepts including scalability fault tolerance and data consistency.
• Knowledge of RESTful APIs and experience designing implementing and integrating APIs in a secure and efficient manner.
• Familiarity with relational (e.g. Postgres) and NoSQL (e.g. DynamoDB MongoDB) databases data modeling and data storage best practices.
• 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.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams and convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability and desire to stay current with industry trends emerging technologies and best practices in software architecture.
  

Preferred Skills

• Deep experience in our tech stack: Java 17 Spring/Spring boot Typescript UI state management ORM such as Hibernate PostgreSQL nginx Amazon AWS.

• Having served in a technical lead role for one or more product teams.

• Optional but beneficial certifications include AWS Certified Solutions Architect Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert or Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect.

• 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.

Application Deadline:This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

Niyam IT Inc. is an Equal Opportunity (EEO) Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race color creed religion sex sexual orientation gender identity pregnancy marital status partnership status age citizenship status veteran or military status medical condition genetic information national origin disability unemployment status or any other characteristic prohibited by federal state and/or local laws.

Required Experience:

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