Product Architect

About this role

Job Title: Product Architect

Job Category: Engineering

Time Type: Full time

Minimum Clearance Required to Start: None

Employee Type: Regular

Percentage of Travel Required: Up to 10%

Type of Travel: Local

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The Opportunity: CACI is currently looking for a Product Architect with agile methodology experience to join our BEAGLE (Border Enforcement Applications for Government Leading-Edge Information Technology) Agile Solution Factory (ASF) Team supporting Customs and Border Protection (CBP) client located in Ashburn, VA! Join this passionate team of industry-leading individuals supporting the best practices in Agile Software Development for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

As a member of the BEAGLE ASF Team, you will support the men and women charged with safeguarding the American people and enhancing the Nation’s safety, security, and prosperity. CBP agents and officers are on the front lines, every day, protecting our national security by combining customs, immigration, border security, and agricultural protection into one coordinated and supportive activity.

ASF programs thrive in a culture of innovation and are constantly seeking individuals who can bring creative ideas to solve complex problems, both technical and procedural at the team and portfolio levels. The ability to be adaptable and to work constructively with a technically diverse and geographically separated team is crucial.

Responsibilities: • Responsible for defining and implementing product architecture, ensuring scalability, performance and reliability • Design and implement novel approaches to fulfill business needs, including new tools, development strategies, and testing strategies, and evangelize solutions with multiple peers • Maintain sound understanding of enterprise and program level architecture • Liaison with business analysts to understand business needs and develop solutions that meet business needs, technical feasibility and comply with enterprise and program level architecture and standards • Participate in Agile ceremonies by leading in all technical aspects, including leading the platform demos to the Product Owner and all applicable stakeholders • Collaborate with the SecDevOps team and onboard new applications to the cloud-based infrastructure • Evangelize the developed solution to team members and work with team members to slice and dice stories into tasks and support efficient task execution to meet project deadlines • Motivating developers, testers and creating a space where they can ask questions and voice their concerns • Provide technical guidance and leadership to cross-functional teams through mentoring, coaching, and peer reviews • Keep up to date with industry trends and developments • Designing solutions in a Multi-Tenant Cloud Architecture • Identifies risks, opportunities, compliance issues or other architectural concerns • Active participation in Agile ceremonies, artifact creation, sprint testing, regression testing, demonstrations and retrospectives and solution releases • Review Cybersecurity Assessments and Static Code Analysis of developed software to define remediation's and improve software quality • Develop and maintain technical documentation, including architecture diagrams and design documents • Taking high-level business requirements and mapping them to tasks for developers and testers • Designing technical solutions using established standards and breaking them down into units of work for your team • Working with business analysts to ensure coverage of requirements • Creating a roadmap to production for your product in a phased approach, considering legacy system decommissioning • Overseeing project construction, reviewing pull requests, ensuring test coverage, maintaining high quality code, mentoring developers, removing blockers, and presenting your team’s product to various stakeholders. • Systems design, systems development, systems integration, application design • Experience migrating legacy applications to microservices based architecture deployed to the cloud • Anticipating issues and formulating remedial actions • Collaborating with Developers, Program Managers, Testers, UI/UX, and Production Support Engineers to implement innovative technical solutions via iterative approach reducing time to delivery

Qualifications:

Required:  • Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to pass CBP background investigation, criteria include but are not limited to: • 3 year check for felony convictions • 1 year check for illegal drug use • 1 year check for misconduct such as theft or fraud

• 10+ years' overall experience in software development, including hands-on experience with programming, software design patterns, and architecture as a software architect, tech lead, or a senior developer • A bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field • Expertise in Java and associated frameworks such as Sprint/Spring boot, Kendo UI and libraries such as React, Spring, Hibernate. • Expertise in design patterns, object-oriented programming (OOP), and other software design methodologies to create modular, scalable, and maintainable systems • Professional experience operating within cross-functional teams and groups • Knowledge of different software development processes, such as Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, or DevOps, and their implications on architectural decisions • Expertise in various architectural styles, such as client-server, microservices, event-driven, or layered architectures, and their trade-offs • Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud) and understanding of distributed system concepts, including scalability, fault tolerance, and data consistency • Experience in RESTful APIs and experience designing, implementing, and integrating APIs in a secure and efficient manner. • Experience with relational (e.g., Postgres) databases, data modeling, and data storage best practices • Skills in analyzing and optimizing software

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