Lead Architect - TS/SCI with Polygraph

GDIT

$246K — $333K *
Aerospace & Defense
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 15+ years of related experience
  • Bachelor's Degree
  • Deep knowledge of AWS Cloud architecture and services
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate) certification
  • Knowledge of Azure, Google and Oracle cloud service offerings
  • Top Secret SCI clearance with polygraph required
  • US Citizenship required

Responsibilities

  • Work collaboratively with systems engineers and software developers to design, develop, test and deploy systems
  • Communicate with leadership to adapt to new or changing requirements
  • Design and implement JAVA Microservices
  • Architect data integration via REST API
  • Become an expert in AWS data workflows like AWS Lambda and S3
  • Develop technical documentation for program reviews and presentations
  • Coordinate application monitoring in production

Benefits

  • 401K with company match
  • Comprehensive health and wellness packages
  • Internal mobility team for career development
  • Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications
  • Access to cutting-edge technology
  • Paid vacation and holidays
Full Job Description

Type of Requisition:

Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

Top Secret SCI + Polygraph

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

Top Secret SCI + Polygraph

Public Trust/Other Required:

None

Job Family:

Software Engineering

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

Project Management, Software Development, System Designs

Certifications:

None

Experience:

15 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

Yes

Job Description:

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a Lead Architect supporting customer activities. GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career.

HOW A SOFTWARE ENGINEER SME WILL MAKE AN IMPACT

  • Work with a team of systems engineers and software developers to specify, design, develop, test and deploy the end-state system. Development will take place in an iterative fashion using scrum techniques with inputs from multiple stakeholders. The work will be done in a dynamic stakeholder environment within AWS.
  • Communicate with team leads and senior leadership and rapidly adjust direction in support of new and/or changing requirements.
  • Design and guide the implementation and maintenance of JAVA Microservices
  • Architect data integration from one system to another via REST API
  • Become an expert on an AWS data workflow that includes AWS Lambda, S3, and other such technologies; as well as other cloud providers
  • Architect and design the ingestion and normalization of data from multiple data sources
  • Develop technical documentation and briefing materials to support program status reviews, control gates, and other presentations as directed by program management
  • Work with other enterprise service programs to leverage their capabilities via web services integration
  • Architect and coordinate the monitoring of applications in production
  • Participate in code reviews
  • Creates and designs innovative software updates, refinement, testing and debugging processes to meet business needs.
  • Utilizes the comprehensive analysis of project specification, activity, and status to create and design highly ingenious software systems.
  • Provides highly ingenious and overarching advice on the documentation of the software or system design.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED:

  • Education: Bachelor's Degree
  • Experience: 15+ yrs
  • Required Technical Skills:
  • Deep knowledge of AWS Cloud architecture and services
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate) certification
  • Knowledge of Azure, Google and Oracle cloud service offerings
  • Security Clearance Level: TS/SCI with polygraph
  • Desired Technical Skills:
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Professional) certification
  • Location: Bethesda, MD - On Customer Site

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE:

  • 401K with company match
  • Comprehensive health and wellness packages
  • Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career
  • Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications
  • Cutting-edge technology you can learn from
  • Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays

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The likely salary range for this position is $246,500 - $333,500. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Travel Required:

Less than 10%

Telecommuting Options:

Onsite

Work Location:

USA MD Bethesda

Additional Work Locations:

USA VA Herndon - 13857 Mclearen Road (VAS091)

Total Rewards at GDIT:

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

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