Software Solution Architect - Customs Modernization
SecuriPort2 months ago
Reston, VA, USASenior
Responsibilities
- Define and maintain the solution architecture and roadmap for KIBO’s customs-assurance technology ecosystem.
- Produce architectural blueprints, system diagrams, interface designs, technical standards, and implementation guidance.
- Design secure and maintainable integrations with customs systems, port-community data sources, external trade-data services, and government systems.
- Gather requirements from customs authorities, port stakeholders, vendors, field teams, and program leadership and translate them into technical designs and delivery plans.
- Ensure architecture supports secure data handling, access controls, audit logging, interoperability, data protection, reliability, resilience, and performance.
- Evaluate technology options, identify architectural risks and tradeoffs, and recommend mitigation strategies.
- Provide technical leadership to engineers, data scientists, partners, and vendors and review delivered solutions against approved designs.
- Complete the initial architecture and integration assessment and publish reference architecture, integration patterns, data-flow standards, and supporting documentation.
Requirements
- Eight or more years of experience in technical roles involving software development, systems integration, or engineering delivery for complex production environments.
- Three or more years of experience in solution architecture, software architecture, enterprise architecture, or a related role.
- Demonstrated ability to design secure, scalable, resilient, and maintainable technology solutions.
- Strong experience with distributed systems, APIs, systems integrations, operational platforms, and complex data flows.
- Experience creating architecture documentation, interface specifications, system diagrams, implementation standards, and engineering guidance.
- Familiarity with architecture frameworks or documentation methods such as C4, TOGAF, ArchiMate, UML, OpenAPI, or comparable standards.
- Strong knowledge of information security, access control, audit logging, interoperability, data protection, reliability, and performance.
- Experience working with sensitive operational, regulated, or government-related data.
- Ability to gather requirements from technical and non-technical stakeholders and communicate complex technical concepts to executive, operational, client, vendor, and government audiences.
- Experience with customs, international trade, digital single-window, logistics, port-community, border-management, intelligence, or government technology systems is preferred.
- Architecture certification, cloud architecture, DevOps, CI/CD, containerization, infrastructure as code, microservices, API management, or production-monitoring experience is preferred.
- Experience with .NET, Java, Node.js, or Python is preferred, with .NET especially valuable.
- Exposure to e-payment systems, traceability platforms, distributed-ledger technologies, digital identity, biometrics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, or computer vision is preferred.
- Working proficiency in French is preferred.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package.
- Mission-driven work supporting modernization of a national customs administration.
- Opportunity to shape a platform with long-term economic, operational, and public-sector impact.
- Collaborative multidisciplinary team of customs, technology, data, and engineering specialists.
- Significant ownership and influence during a critical program build-out phase.
- Professional growth opportunities as the platform and program expand.
About SecuriPort
SecuriPort builds biometric border-management and civil aviation security systems for national governments and airport authorities, including traveler risk analytics, API/PNR screening, and immigration control platforms. The privately held company, founded in 2001 and headquartered in Reston, Virginia, delivers software and managed services deployed across dozens of countries in Africa, Asia, and South America.