Software Systems Architect - Clearance Required
Logistics Management Institute7 hours ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
Base Salary
$160k - $185k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead team-level solution design and translate functional and non-functional requirements into technical designs.
- Develop and maintain architectural runway, technical enablers, dependencies, constraints, and architectural work.
- Lead interface and integration design across applications, services, APIs, data sources, external systems, and shared platforms.
- Define and guide security, performance, reliability, scalability, maintainability, observability, and testability requirements.
- Establish technology standards, reusable architectural patterns, reference implementations, and engineering guardrails.
- Assess and prioritize technical debt with Product Owners and Solution Architects.
- Create architecture diagrams, system and component models, interface definitions, architectural decision records, and technical documentation.
- Work directly with developers on design, implementation, reviews, troubleshooting, mentoring, and technical problem solving.
- Collaborate with DevSecOps, testing, UX, cybersecurity, Product Management, and other stakeholders on delivery and operational requirements.
- Identify and coordinate cross-team, environment, infrastructure, integration, and external dependencies.
- Perform root-cause analysis for complex or recurring defects, integration issues, environment constraints, and architectural problems.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent relevant experience.
- 7+ years of professional software engineering, application development, systems engineering, or technical architecture experience, including hands-on production software design and delivery.
- Experience with software and application architecture, system design, requirements translation, and architecture tradeoffs.
- Hands-on experience with cloud environments, preferably AWS, including cloud architecture, secure networking, identity and access management, service integration, and deployment.
- Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs and integrating applications, services, data sources, and external systems.
- Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, Git-based workflows, automation, and DevSecOps practices.
- Ability to work directly with developers through technical design, implementation guidance, code and design reviews, troubleshooting, and complex problem solving.
- Ability to address security, performance, reliability, scalability, maintainability, observability, and testability requirements.
- Strong technical communication and collaborative leadership skills across engineering, product, testing, DevSecOps, cybersecurity, and leadership stakeholders.
- Experience in Agile software delivery environments and team-level technical decision-making within broader architecture guardrails.
- Active DoD Secret security clearance or ability to obtain and maintain one.
- Preferred experience includes Angular, microservices, containers, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS architecture or certification, SAFe Agile Release Trains, PI Planning, secure or regulated mission systems, ATO/RMF processes, Army or DoD systems, UI/UX, accessibility testing, and organizational change management.
Benefits
- Remote position in the United States.
- Occasional travel is required for PI Planning, program increment events, user engagement sessions, architecture and design workshops, and key program milestones.
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About Logistics Management Institute
Logistics Management Institute (LMI) provides consulting, software development, and analytics services to U.S. federal agencies, with strengths in supply chain, digital engineering, AI, and modeling and simulation. It builds and sustains government systems—such as Army acquisition and contract-writing platforms—while delivering data-driven modernization and program support across defense, space, healthcare, and energy. Founded in 1961 and headquartered in Tysons, Virginia, LMI operates as a privately held contractor to the public sector.