[Hiring] Software Architect, Lead @Booz Allen Hamilton

Role Description

Are you looking for an opportunity not just to develop software, but to architect event-driven platforms and low-latency streaming systems that have an immense impact in the defense industry? As a Solution Architect, you’ll lead end-to-end product design—from vision to production—for real-time data ingestion, processing, and delivery. Using agile lifecycle development and Git-based workflows, you’ll partner with full-stack engineers and data scientists to operationalize data-intensive capabilities across mission systems.

• Define and own streaming architecture, such as pub/sub, fanout, or backpressure, and event-driven microservices for high-availability and fault tolerance.
• Select, configure, and scale distributed messaging, such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or AWS SNS/SQS, WebSockets/gRPC, and API gateways.
• Establish data contracts and schema evolution, such as Avro, Protobuf, or JSON Schema, with registry, serialization, and compatibility policies.
• Design for observability, such as OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, and SLOs, and drive resiliency patterns, such as idempotency, retries, or circuit breakers.
• Lead cloud-native deployments on Docker and Kubernetes; guide infrastructure choices across AWS or Azure.
• Set security-by-design standards, such as encryption in transit/at rest, authN/authZ, or secrets management in partnership with DevSecOps.
• Mentor engineers, review designs and code, and champion SDLC best practices, automated testing, and documentation.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software architecture, design, and code review in production systems.
• 2+ years of experience building real-time services, defined as WebSockets‑driven data pipelines that transmit and process raw data with no observable delay to human users, with Node.js, TypeScript and React for console and Operations UIs.
• Experience with REST APIs, WebSockets, and C#.
• Experience Agile Methodology, Git, JavaScript, CSS, Swagger, OpenAPI, Client and Server Side Development, RESTful APIs, AWS, and Azure.
• Experience with relational, such as PostgreSQL or SQL Server, and NoSQL, such as MongoDB or DynamoDB, data architectures at scale.
• Experience with delivery with data streaming technologies and distributed message queues, including strong unit and integration test frameworks.
• Experience with production with Docker and Kubernetes for scalability.
• Ability to travel up to 25% of the time.
• Secret clearance.
• Bachelor's degree.

Requirements

• Experience with Big Data technologies, such as Python, Kafka, Spark/Flink, or ksqlDB.
• Experience performance engineering for low-latency pipelines.
• Experience with game engines, such as Unity, Unreal, or Prepar3D a plus.
• Experience with C++.
• Possession of excellent critical thinking, decision making, and detail oriented skills.

Benefits

• Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits.
• Paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care.
• Recognition awards program for exceptional performance and demonstration of values.
• Eligibility for benefit programs for full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week.