Software Solution Architect - Customs Modernization
SecuriPort4 days 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.