Senior Integration Architect

Job Description

Job Description

Company Overview

Orbis is a technology company that delivers sovereign intelligence and decision capabilities to the United States Government and its allies. We convert complex information and operational systems into decisive outcomes, giving public institutions and critical enterprises the tools to move faster, see clearer, and act first in an increasingly contested world.

We are not a consulting firm and not a systems integrator. Every Orbis team is built around practitioners who have operated at the mission edge, and every engagement is judged on one thing: whether it produces working capability, not slide decks. Solutions forged from experience; that is how we build, and it is how we hire.

Job Summary

Orbis is seeking a Senior Integration Architect to lead integration delivery within one of three rotating integration teams supporting an ongoing program for a government client in the Middle East. In this role, you will design, build, deploy, and validate data integrations (sensors, C2 systems, and operational feeds) across Orbis data governance and data analysis products, driving assignments from requirement through production deployment in close coordination with your team.

A critical part of this role is working directly with customer engineering and operations teams to map their network topology, data sources, and system dependencies before integration work begins; this discovery is not a preliminary step that gets handed off, it is a continuous responsibility that drives every design and deployment decision. You will mentor Integration Engineers on your team, serve as the first escalation point for technical issues, and maintain integration quality across your assigned domain. This role carries direct responsibility for the orchestration and management of both on-premises data platform environments and cloud-connected infrastructure. Software-layer issues are escalated to the platform product team.

This is a hands-on engineering role for someone ready to shape how integration work gets done, raise the technical bar of the team around them, and ensure the platform infrastructure underpinning that work is properly configured, connected, and maintained.

Travel: This is a remote role with extended travel to the Middle East, including time spent in geopolitical hot zones up to 40% of the time. Please apply if you are willing to meet this requirement.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead full-lifecycle integration delivery for assigned data sources in coordination with your team: requirements analysis, connector design, implementation, testing, deployment, and validation in the target environment
• Lead customer technical discovery as a core responsibility: work directly with customer engineering and operations teams to map their network topology, data sources, system dependencies, and operational constraints; this understanding is the foundation that integration design and deployment decisions are built on and cannot be delegated or skipped
• Drive technical decisions when integrations don't fit established patterns; document decisions and rationale for the team and contribute to shared architectural standards
• Mentor Integration Engineers through code review, pairing, and direct feedback; serve as the first point of escalation before the team lead
• Design and build custom data connectors and integration plugins (producer bridges, operators, consumer bridges) for complex or undocumented source systems across air, land, maritime, air defense, space, and cyber domains
• Own the orchestration and management of on-premises data platform environments (cluster configuration, service health, data connectivity) and cloud-connected infrastructure (resource provisioning, hybrid connectivity, access controls) across the program's deployment surface
• Deploy and validate integrations across customer environments (cloud-native, on-premises, and tactical edge) using infrastructure orchestration tooling; ensure integrations work in theater, not just in dev
• Stand up and configure platform nodes and on-premises data platform components using established runbooks; validate cluster health, data platform connectivity, and configuration correctness post-deployment
• Diagnose and resolve cross-system integration failures under operational pressure; distinguish integration-layer issues from platform-layer issues and drive resolution with the team
• Triage platform issues: determine whether a problem is in the program's integration code or in the platform itself, and file high-quality bugs with reproductions when it's the latter; software-layer issues route to the platform product team
• Contribute reusable integration patterns, runbooks, and onboarding documentation to the program-wide integrator playbook; flag candidates for upstream contribution to the platform product team
• Provide clear, solution-oriented status updates to the team lead; frame problems with proposed approaches rather than open questions
• Support customer technical exchanges within your integration domain; explain integration approaches to customer engineering teams without requiring the team lead to translate

Required Qualifications

• 5-8 years of professional software engineering experience with a focus on system integrations, data pipelines, and distributed data platforms
• Proficiency in Go (preferred) or Python for integration development
• Demonstrated ability to drive an integration from requirement through production deployment as a team lead and technical decision-maker
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code and deployment tooling (e.g., Terraform, Ansible) to provision, configure, and validate platform environments
• Working knowledge of on-premises big data platforms and their operational characteristics (e.g., Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Presto); ability to configure, validate, and triage at the platform layer
• Experience deploying and integrating within cloud-native environments (e.g., GCP VPC, BigQuery, Dataflow, GKE); familiarity with cloud resource lifecycle and connectivity patterns
• Experience connecting on-premises and cloud environments under security constraints (e.g., Cloud Interconnect, Private Service Connect, VPN); ability to validate and troubleshoot hybrid data paths
• Familiarity with access control, identity management, and network security controls in multi-environment deployments (e.g., IAM, VPC Service Controls)
• Experience debugging complex, cross-system integration failures in production or near-production environments
• Track record of mentoring junior engineers through code review, pairing, or technical guidance
• Strong collaboration and communication skills in distributed, remote, cross-functional teams
• Comfort operating as the technical point of contact in ambiguous, fast-moving environments

Desired Qualifications

• Proven ability to lead customer technical discovery: mapping network environments, identifying data sources and system dependencies, and translating operational requirements into integration design decisions
• Familiarity with defense data standards and protocols: ASTERIX, Cursor on Target (CoT), STANAG, radar UDP
• Track record of designing integration patterns for undocumented or poorly documented source systems
• Background with military, law enforcement, or intelligence community operations and organizations
• Background supporting international programs with distributed, cross-cultural teams rotating through operational environments
• Understanding of service mesh concepts, mTLS, and zero-trust network architectures
• Familiarity with edge-native deployment patterns and constrained operational environments
• Background in customer enablement, technical training, or knowledge transfer in field environments
• Fluency with AI-assisted development tooling (Claude, Copilot, Cursor, or equivalents) as part of daily engineering practice

Physical Requirements

The following describes the physical demands of this position. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions in accordance with the ADA.

Sedentary Work: Primarily performs work in a seated position for extended periods; occasionally required to stand, walk, or move within the work area
Fine Motor Skills : Regularly required to use hands and fingers to operate a computer keyboard, mouse, and standard office equipment
Vision: Must be able to read and view a computer screen for extended periods; close vision and ability to adjust focus required
Communication: Must be able to communicate clearly and effectively in person, via telephone, and through video conferencing platforms; ability to hear and understand spoken information in a professional setting required
Lifting: Occasionally required to lift and/or move items up to 25 pounds (e.g., files, documents, office supplies)
Concentration: Must be able to maintain sustained focus and attention to detail in a professional office or hybrid work environment

Travel:  Extended travel to the Middle East, including time spent in geopolitical hot zones up to 40% of the time.

Orbis Benefits

Beyond the opportunity to work alongside practitioners who have operated at the mission edge, joining Orbis means real ownership over outcomes that matter; the chance to build technology that gives the United States Government and its allies a genuine decision advantage, not just another dashboard. From competitive retirement matching to a PTO policy that encourages real time off, we're committed to creating an environment where our team can do their best work and still have a life outside of it.

Our comprehensive benefits package is designed to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. A full list of benefits is shared with candidates following an initial conversation with our HR team, so you'll have a clear picture of the support and resources available to you as part of the Orbis team.

Orbis Locations

Orbis works in whatever arrangement the mission requires. Depending on the role, that might mean five days a week on a customer site, full-time in one of our offices, a hybrid schedule, or fully remote work; our team is spread across 25 states and four countries to match. We make sure every team member has the tools and access needed to do the work, wherever that work happens.

Travel is common across many Orbis roles, particularly those supporting customer missions in the field.

Orbis is headquartered in McLean, VA, with additional office locations in Taipei, Taiwan, and Canberra, Australia.

Orbis is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We are committed to providing a work environment free of discrimination and harassment, and we make employment decisions based on merit, 

qualifications, and business need. Orbis does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable law.

Orbis complies with all applicable equal opportunity and non-discrimination laws in every jurisdiction in which we operate. Reasonable accommodation is available to applicants and employees with disabilities upon request.