Lead Application Engineer Application Architect

Fairfax, VA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: Yesterday

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Application Engineer - Lead (Application Architect)
Active Secret Clearance Preferred
Hybrid-within commutable to Northern VA/DCA

Nationwide IT Services NIS is seeking a Lead Application Engineer for a potential opportunity to:

Lead the technical design and implementation of new microservices and APIs ensuring Domain Driven Design principles.
Write secure maintainable and well-tested production code using Java 21 and the Spring Boot/Spring Cloud framework.
Design and implement highly scalable high-volume RESTful APIs and integration points for internal and external data collaborators.
Create and manage database migration scripts using Hibernate.
Implement and manage asynchronous communication patterns using message bus technologies such as Apache Kafka to build resilient and loosely coupled services.
Provide technical guidance coaching or mentorship to team members to elevate the teams collective engineering capability.
Serve as the final escalation point for complex production issues conducting root cause analysis debugging and providing expert technical assistance for distributed application environments.
Possess knowledge of deploying production code to AWS GovCloud and various server configuration techniques to harden production code once deployed.
Strong understanding of AWS GovCloud Kubernetes Docker and Apache Tomcat (or equivalent server technology).
Familiarity with modern frontend frameworks (React Angular or ) to effectively collaborate on API contracts and full-stack integration.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to articulate complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Qualifications:

Active Secret Clearance Preferred
Bachelors degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering or a related field.
10 years of progressive hands-on experience in software development with 4 years in a Lead Senior or Tech Lead role.
8 years of experience designing and implementing Java-based products and services.
Proven experience designing and implementing highly available scalable and resilient microservices architectures.

About Nationwide IT Services
NIS is an IT and Management consulting company that is a CVE-verified Service-Disabled Veteran- Owned Small Business. Our mission is to deliver value-added services to our customers leveraging technology people and industry best practices to implement innovative solutions through our trusted employees and team members.

Our benefits package includes medical dental and vision insurance life and disability insurance 401(k) plan with employer match paid holidays PTO (sick/vacation) commuter benefits employee assistance program (EAP) and educational reimbursement along with Pet Insurance.

Nationwide IT Services Inc. provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all qualified applicants regardless of race color religion sex national origin sexual orientation gender identity genetics disability or protected veteran status.

Required Experience:

Senior IC

Application Engineer - Lead (Application Architect)Active Secret Clearance PreferredHybrid-within commutable to Northern VA/DCANationwide IT Services NIS is seeking a Lead Application Engineer for a potential opportunity to:Lead the technical design and implementation of new microservices and APIs e...

Lead the technical design and implementation of new microservices and APIs ensuring Domain Driven Design principles.
Write secure maintainable and well-tested production code using Java 21 and the Spring Boot/Spring Cloud framework.
Design and implement highly scalable high-volume RESTful APIs and integration points for internal and external data collaborators.
Create and manage database migration scripts using Hibernate.
Implement and manage asynchronous communication patterns using message bus technologies such as Apache Kafka to build resilient and loosely coupled services.
Provide technical guidance coaching or mentorship to team members to elevate the teams collective engineering capability.
Serve as the final escalation point for complex production issues conducting root cause analysis debugging and providing expert technical assistance for distributed application environments.
Possess knowledge of deploying production code to AWS GovCloud and various server configuration techniques to harden production code once deployed.
Strong understanding of AWS GovCloud Kubernetes Docker and Apache Tomcat (or equivalent server technology).
Familiarity with modern frontend frameworks (React Angular or ) to effectively collaborate on API contracts and full-stack integration.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to articulate complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Qualifications:

Active Secret Clearance Preferred
Bachelors degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering or a related field.
10 years of progressive hands-on experience in software development with 4 years in a Lead Senior or Tech Lead role.
8 years of experience designing and implementing Java-based products and services.
Proven experience designing and implementing highly available scalable and resilient microservices architectures.