Software Architect

Role Overview

• Develop, own and maintain the software architecture with focus on interface clarity, stability, and versioning to minimize integration risk
• Partner with appropriate stakeholders to inform system definition and oversee translation of system-level requirements into software requirements and models that meet customer, operational and performance requirements and have clear traceability to design, code and test artifacts
• Manage supplier/subcontractor software deliverables to ensure they meet team processes and integration requirements
• Lead the software engineering team’s agile delivery: facilitate sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews/retrospectives, and remove impediments to flow
• Serve as the Agile/Delivery lead for software—own backlog prioritization with product/system owners, define sprint goals, and ensure timely delivery of integration-ready increments
• Define, document, and enforce software integration contracts (ICDs or equivalent living artifacts), data models, and message definitions in coordination with Integration & Test and Systems leads
• Ensure software is designed for testability: require unit, component, integration, SIL/HIL test artifacts with code deliveries, include observability hooks, and ensure failures are diagnosable
• Lead DevSecOps and CI/CD practices for the team: ensure pipelines support repeatable builds, automated testing, artifact traceability, and consistent deployments across dev, integration, and test environments
• Collaborate with Integration & Test to align delivery cadence to integration increments and controlled configuration baselines
• Drive verification & validation execution for software components: support development of test strategies, analyze test results, and triage defects with the team
• Establish and track delivery metrics (velocity, cycle time, quality metrics, technical debt) and use them to improve predictability and quality
• Coach and mentor engineers on agile practices, test automation, CI/CD, code quality, and observability
• Contribute to risk and issue management that affects software delivery and integration readiness; escalate when necessary to protect integration milestones
• Document integration results, test findings, and provide inputs for design reviews and readiness assessments

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in an engineering discipline
• 5+ years of experience in leading efforts in analyzing and translating requirements into system architecture, hardware and software designs and interface specifications
• Experience as an Agile Systems or Software Development Team Lead
• 5+ years of experience with the DevSecOps lifecycle
• 5+ years of experience of DevOps experience (Git, Jenkins, or other CI/CD tools)
• 5+ years of experience with configuration management and collaboration tools such as (or similar to) Git, JIRA, Collaborator, Beyond Compare, and VersionOne
• 1+ years of Proficient with scripting/programming languages used for automation and testing (e.g., Python, Bash)

Tech Stack

• Jenkins
• Python

Benefits

• health insurance
• flexible spending accounts
• health savings accounts
• retirement savings plans
• life and disability insurance programs
• paid and unpaid time away from work