Lead Software Architect (2026-0134)
Acclaim Technical Services2 months ago
Chantilly, VA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$225k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own and govern the software architecture for a globally distributed microservices platform deployed across centralized, cloud, and constrained edge environments.
- Maintain and evolve approximately 25 core Java microservices plus supporting and integration services.
- Define architecture for service boundaries, contracts, data flows, event patterns, deployment topologies, node roles, observability, fault tolerance, and service recovery.
- Lead technical design for transactional, authorization, master-data, health/status, internationalization, matching, peripheral, and device-oriented services.
- Lead integration architecture for government, commercial, identity, travel, manifest, and partner-system interfaces.
- Ensure deployments remain remotely observable, supportable, maintainable, resilient, and fieldable.
- Guide multiple development teams through design reviews, technical debt reduction, modernization planning, roadmap sequencing, readiness reviews, and major incident analysis.
- Collaborate with cloud, network, security, data, field engineering, and operations teams, with domestic and/or international travel potentially required.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field, with four additional years of experience accepted in place of the degree.
- At least 12 years of software engineering experience, including significant software architecture experience with distributed or mission-critical systems.
- At least five years architecting production microservices-based platforms and experience serving as technical authority over a multi-service ecosystem.
- Experience guiding multiple development teams and reviewing architecture across service boundaries.
- Deep hands-on expertise with Java on modern JDKs, Linux-based production environments, and distributed service design and operational patterns.
- Strong experience with MongoDB, Elasticsearch/Logstash, RabbitMQ or equivalent messaging platforms, and service discovery, orchestration, and secrets technologies such as Consul, Nomad, Vault, or Kubernetes.
- Experience designing resilient, observable, secure, globally distributed systems operating across constrained edge and cloud-heavy environments with variable connectivity.
- Ability to architect authorization, user administration, remote support, lifecycle management, graceful degradation, and diagnosability.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to create design artifacts and clearly present architecture decisions.
- Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph is required.
- Preferred qualifications include a master’s degree, Vue.js and frontend architecture experience, hybrid-cloud deployments, external government or partner integrations, device and peripheral platforms, Nomad/Consul/Vault production experience, low-downtime upgrades, Elasticsearch search use cases, offline synchronization, modernization of monoliths, biometric or image-processing components, internationalized systems, operational analytics, and distributed-system CI/CD and release experience.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package including healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, family support, continuing education, and time off benefits.
- Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) participation and career growth, learning, and development opportunities.
- Competitive compensation with flexibility intended to support work-life balance.
- Domestic and/or international project travel may be required.
- The position supports a program in Chantilly, Virginia.
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About Acclaim Technical Services
Acclaim Technical Services provides language, intelligence, and technology services to U.S. federal and national security agencies, spanning translation, interpretation, document exploitation, geolocation, data visualization, and systems integration. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Reston, VA, it operates as an employee‑owned ESOP and privately held government contractor. The company supports missions across 100+ languages and staffs cleared roles within the intelligence community.