Senior Software Architect

FusionInnovations recent growth has earned us a top spot in the Inc 5000 FastestGrowing Private Companies in America and in Washington Business Journals BestPlaces to Work multiple years in a row. Our team members are passionate abouttheir work and are empowered to contribute their unique skills and perspectivesto our projects. Here at Fusion we put people first. When you join us youdont just join a company you join a family. If you are ready to be part of afun and engaging team where your innovative ideas are heard supported andmake ever lasting mission impacts for our Nations most sensitive programs youhave come to the right place.

Position Overview

The Senior Software Architect will serve as the overall architecture authority for a large-scale globally distributed mission platform deployed across multiple countries and managed remotely from the United States. The platform supports real-time transaction processing distributed data management external government and commercial integrations peripheral and device orchestration and centralized observability and administration. This role defines and governs the architecture of a modern Linux-based ecosystem of approximately 25 core microservices and a comparable set of supporting services while ensuring resilience fieldability security and maintainability.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the overall software architecture for a globally distributed microservices platform.
• Provide architectural leadership for approximately 25 core Java-based microservices and a comparable set of supporting and integration services.
• Define and govern service boundaries contracts data flows event patterns control-plane and backplane behavior node roles deployment topologies observability fault tolerance and recovery patterns.
• Lead architecture for a technology stack that includes RHEL or Rocky Linux Java JDK 21 3 MongoDB Elasticsearch Logstash RabbitMQ Consul Nomad and Vault.
• Architect deployment patterns for server data arbiter workstation and other user-facing node types across edge and centralized environments.
• Guide the design of operational services supporting transaction processing rules and screening workflows authorization reference data internationalization health monitoring and biometric or matching capabilities.
• Oversee integration architecture for external devices sensors government systems commercial travel or identity systems and customer-specific extensions.
• Ensure the platform remains remotely observable diagnosable supportable and maintainable across all deployments.
• Collaborate with cloud network cybersecurity data field engineering and operations teams to align architecture with real-world deployment constraints.
• Review software designs guide technical-debt reduction and modernization and sequence architectural roadmap priorities.
• Serve as the senior technical authority during design reviews readiness reviews major incident analysis and complex problem resolution.

Required Skills

• Active Top Secret/SCI with Polygraph.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering Data Engineering Information Systems or a related technical discipline; four additional years of relevant experience may substitute for a degree.
• 12 years of software engineering experience including significant experience in architecture roles for distributed or mission-critical systems.
• 5 years architecting production microservices-based platforms.
• Demonstrated ability to serve as the technical authority for a multi-service software ecosystem and guide multiple development teams.
• Deep hands-on expertise with modern Java preferably JDK 21 Linux production environments and distributed-service design and operational patterns.
• Strong experience with MongoDB Elasticsearch Logstash RabbitMQ or equivalent messaging platforms and service discovery orchestration and secrets technologies such as Consul Nomad Vault or Kubernetes.
• Experience designing systems for constrained edge environments centralized or cloud-heavy environments and globally distributed deployments with intermittent or variable connectivity.
• Proven ability to architect for resilience graceful degradation observability diagnosability secure service-to-service communication authorization and remote lifecycle management.
• Ability to balance long-term architecture quality with delivery constraints and operational realities.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills including the ability to produce design artifacts and present architectural decisions clearly.

Desired Skills

• Masters degree in Computer Science Software Engineering Data Engineering or a related field.
• Experience with 3 and modern frontend patterns for administrative or operational interfaces.
• Experience with hybrid-cloud or cloud-heavy deployments that use centralized back-end services and thin edge nodes.
• Experience integrating government identity travel partner or standards-based external systems.
• Experience integrating scanners readers imaging devices kiosks or other edge hardware.
• Production experience with Nomad Consul and Vault and with zero- or low-downtime upgrade strategies.
• Experience with semantic or advanced search event replay reconciliation or offline synchronization.
• Experience modernizing legacy monoliths into service-oriented or microservices-based platforms.
• Familiarity with open-source biometric matching search or image-processing components.

Additional Details

Fusion Innovation anticipates the annual base salary for this position will generally range from $100000 to $215000. Actual compensation will be determined based on several factors including but not limited to:

• Relevant education certifications and training
• Years of direct applicable experience with this work and the customer
• Contract labor category requirements skill level contract bill rate and hours allocation
• Alignment with the positions responsibilities
• Additional specialized skills

In addition to base salary eligible employees may be considered for discretionary bonuses and are eligible for Fusion Innovations comprehensive benefits package which includes medical dental vision company-sponsored retirement contributions paid leave professional development opportunities and other employee benefits.

Fusion Innovation is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to disability protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal state or local law. Fusion Innovation participates in E-Verify to confirm employment eligibility for all newly hired employees. If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete the application process please contact and include your name and contact information

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