Software Architect – AI-Enabled Enterprise Platform

🔥 12 hours ago

⚔️ Virginia – Remote

⚔️ Virginia – Remote

💵 $150k - $190k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

🤖 AI Engineer

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Agile Defense

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501 - 1000 employees

🏛️ Government

🔒 Cybersecurity

🎖️ Defense

Government • Cybersecurity • Defense

Agile Defense is a company at the forefront of innovation, dedicated to providing advanced capabilities and tailored solutions for critical national security and civilian missions. With a focus on digital transformation, data analytics, and cybersecurity, Agile Defense is instrumental in safeguarding sensitive assets. The company leverages a data-driven approach to deliver insights that enhance mission operations and accelerate decision-making processes. Agile Defense operates globally, with a strong presence across North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, supporting a wide range of client missions. The company is committed to exploring new ideas and technologies, fostering a culture of innovation to advance their services continuously.

📋 Description

• Own the architecture, technical direction, and engineering standards for the Workforce AI-enabled enterprise platform and its microservices • Define and document service boundaries, API contracts, data flows, integration patterns, and key technical decisions • Lead the design of AI-enabled architecture, including tool calling, system instructions, context management, prompt and control flow, and LLM service integration • Design secure enterprise integrations for identity, document workflows, collaboration tools, and external APIs • Manage technical debt, platform risk, and architectural drift • Lead technical execution through solution design, task breakdown, estimation, sequencing, and code review • Partner with the Product Manager to translate product goals and requirements into technical designs, milestones, and engineering work • Establish standards for code quality, automated testing, documentation, and definition of done • Mentor engineers through design reviews, pairing, code reviews, and technical feedback • Serve as the primary technical contact for engineering leadership, product, and customer stakeholders • Serve as Release Manager for the multi-service release train, coordinating release readiness, notes, and records • Represent the team in change control and release review processes, presenting changes, risks, and rollback plans • Own production posture, including rollback decisions, incident triage, root cause follow-through, and post-release verification • Collaborate with platform and DevOps engineers on CI/CD, Helm deployments to AKS, observability, autoscaling, and performance testing • Contribute directly to feature implementation, critical-path work, integration work, and production fixes • Build and maintain full-stack capabilities across modern web front ends and backend web APIs

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience • 10+ years of professional software engineering experience building and maintaining production applications • 5+ years designing and owning production application architecture, including leading technical execution for an engineering team as a software architect, technical lead, or senior technical owner • Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance • Strong hands-on coding ability in at least one object-oriented, strongly typed language such as Java, C#, TypeScript, Go, or Kotlin • Professional experience building modern web front-end applications and backend web APIs, services, and integration layers • Experience planning and delivering work for a team, including breaking complex requirements into milestones and tasks and managing dependencies • Experience with structured release practices for distributed or multi-service systems, including versioning, change control, release coordination, and rollback • Strong understanding of API design, authentication and authorization patterns, data modeling, error handling, testing, and maintainability • Practical understanding of secure software development, including access control, data protection, dependency hygiene, and production readiness • Working knowledge of AI-first application patterns, including tool calling, system instruction design, context management, retrieval grounding, and LLM integration • Ability to onboard into a large, complex codebase quickly and become the technical authority with limited handoff • Strong communication skills for explaining technical tradeoffs, risk, and status to engineers, product stakeholders, and executive leadership • Preferred: experience with TypeScript, Node.js, React, microservices, containers, Kubernetes, Helm, CI/CD, Azure Government/GCC, AI frameworks, release management, enterprise collaboration platforms, identity providers, sensitive data, DevSecOps, observability, autoscaling, production support, AI-enabled workflows, and SaaS, enterprise, government, or secure internal platforms

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote work environment • Opportunity to support important national security and critical civilian missions • Collaborative, employee-focused culture • Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities