Software Architect, Lead
Booz Allen Hamilton5 hours ago
Base Salary
$113k - $257k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and own event-driven streaming architecture, including pub/sub, fanout, backpressure, and high-availability patterns.
- Select, configure, and scale distributed messaging, WebSockets/gRPC, and API gateway technologies.
- Establish data contracts, schema evolution, serialization, registry, and compatibility policies.
- Design observability and resiliency capabilities, including distributed tracing, SLOs, idempotency, retries, and circuit breakers.
- Lead cloud-native deployments using Docker and Kubernetes across AWS or Azure.
- Set security-by-design standards in partnership with DevSecOps.
- Mentor engineers, review designs and code, and promote software development lifecycle practices, automated testing, and documentation.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in software architecture, design, and production code review.
- 2+ years building WebSockets-driven real-time services and data pipelines using Node.js, TypeScript, and React.
- Experience with REST APIs, WebSockets, C#, JavaScript, CSS, Swagger, OpenAPI, client-side development, and server-side development.
- Experience with Agile methodology, Git, AWS, and Azure.
- Experience designing relational data architectures such as PostgreSQL or SQL Server and NoSQL architectures such as MongoDB or DynamoDB at scale.
- Experience delivering data streaming technologies and distributed message queues, with strong unit and integration testing experience.
- Production experience with Docker and Kubernetes for scalability.
- Ability to travel up to 25% of the time.
- Secret clearance and eligibility to access classified information.
- Bachelor's degree.
- Preferred experience with Python, Kafka, Spark/Flink, ksqlDB, low-latency performance engineering, Unity, Unreal, Prepar3D, or C++.
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement, with occasional work at a Booz Allen or customer facility and cameras generally expected during virtual meetings.
- Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits.
- Paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care.
- Recognition awards and eligibility for Booz Allen benefit programs for regular full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours per week.
Tech Stack
Amazon DynamoDBApache FlinkApache KafkaApache SparkAWSAzureC#C++CSSDockerGitgRPCJavaScriptKubernetesMicrosoft SQL ServerMongoDBNode.jsPostgreSQLPythonRabbitMQReactTypeScriptUnity
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About Booz Allen Hamilton
Booz Allen Hamilton builds and integrates software, analytics, AI, cloud, and cybersecurity solutions while providing engineering and consulting services, primarily for U.S. defense, intelligence, and civil government clients, with select commercial partnerships. Its business is largely government contracting and professional services delivering mission systems and cyber defense. Founded in 1914 and headquartered in McLean, Virginia, Booz Allen is a public company traded on the NYSE (ticker: BAH).