Software Architect
Fusion Innovation
Job Description FusionInnovation's recent growth has earned us a top spot in the Inc 5000 FastestGrowing Private Companies in America and in Washington Business Journal's 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, youdon't 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 Nation's most sensitive programs, youhave come to the right place. Position Overview In this role you will lead the architecture, technical evolution, and operational design of a large-scale, globally distributed mission platform deployed across multiple countries and managed remotely from the United States. This platform supports real-time transaction processing, distributed data management, integration with external government and commercial systems, peripheral/device orchestration, and centralized observability and administration. The successful candidate will be the overall software architecture authority for a modern Linux-based platform composed of approximately 25 core microservices and a broad set of supporting/integration services. The environment is cloud-heavy, distributed, operationally critical, and deployed in both constrained edge settings and larger centralized/cloud environments. This role requires someone who can define and govern architecture while remaining grounded in the realities of runtime operations, resilience, fieldability, and maintainability.
- Own the overall software architecture for a distributed microservices platform running across global environments
- Maintain and evolve an ecosystem of approximately: 25 core Java-based microservices, a comparable set of supporting and integration services
- Define and govern architecture across: service boundaries and contracts, data flows and event patterns, control plane and backplane behavior, node roles and deployment topologies, observability, fault tolerance, and service recovery
- Lead architecture for a platform based on: RHEL / Rocky Linux, Java (JDK 21+), Vue.js 3 frontends, MongoDB for persistent data, Elasticsearch / Logstash and RabbitMQ for ephemeral/search/event data flows, Consul, Nomad, and Vault for service discovery, orchestration, and secrets management
- Architect deployment patterns for multiple node types, including: server nodes, data nodes, arbiter nodes, workstation/user-facing nodes
- Guide the technical design of core operational services responsible for: transactional processing, rules/screening/correlation workflows, authorization and access control, reference/master data management, language/internationalization support, health/status services, biometric or matching-oriented services built on open-source components
- Oversee architecture for peripheral/device services supporting integration with a broad set of external devices and sensors
- Lead integration architecture for external standards-based and partner system interfaces, including: third-party government systems, commercial travel/identity/manifest-style systems, country/customer-specific extensions
- Ensure the platform remains remotely observable, supportable, and maintainable across all deployments
- Partner with cloud, network, security, data, field engineering, and operations teams to align architecture with deployment realities
- Review and guide software design decisions, technical debt reduction, modernization priorities, and roadmap sequencing
- Serve as a senior technical authority in design reviews, readiness reviews, problem resolution, and major incident analysis
- Active Top Secret/SCI
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or related technical field. 4 Additional years of experience can substitute for a degree.
- 12+ years of software engineering experience, including significant time in software architecture roles for distributed or mission-critical systems
- 5+ years architecting microservices-based platforms in production
- Java on modern JDKs, preferably JDK 21+
- Linux-based production environments, preferably RHEL / Rocky Linux
- Strong experience with: MongoDB, Elasticsearch / Logstash, RabbitMQ or equivalent event/messaging platforms service discovery/orchestration/secrets technologies such as Consul, Nomad, Vault, Kubernetes, or similar
- Experience designing systems that operate across: constrained edge environments, centralized or cloud-heavy environments, globally distributed deployments with intermittent or variable connectivity
- Proven ability to architect for: resilience and graceful degradation, observability and diagnosability, secure service-to-service communication, multi-role user administration and authorization, remote support and lifecycle management
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