Command & Control Software Engineering & Support (C2SES) 4 Lead Software Architect

Discover a career that is challenging, impactful, and mission critical. Join our team as a Command & Control Software Engineering & Support (C2SES) 4 Lead Software Architect and make an impact for Air Force Life Cycle Management Centers Combatant Command C2 Division’s (AFLCMC/HBC) acquisition program portfolio on the C2SES 4 contract supporting United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM). While you help us advance the mission, we’ll help advance your career.

At GDIT, people are our differentiator. We think. We act. We deliver. There is no challenge we can't turn into opportunity. As a C2SES 4 Lead Software Architect, you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter by enabling Commander USSTRATCOM with C2SES capabilities.  C2SES provides Commander USSTRATCOM, supported Combatant Commands, Component Commands, and other authorized users with modernized mission critical communications and computer systems utilizing common integrated information and decision toolsets, applications, and capabilities in a fully synchronized, net-centric information environment, necessary to maintain deterrence and, if required, dominate in conflict. Simply put, you are supporting our Nation’s number one mission of Nuclear Deterrence. Our work depends on C2SES 4 Lead Software Architect, who is TS/SCI level cleared, joining our team to serves as a technical liaison between the Contractor and Government. You must possess the ability to work independently with little supervision, embrace autonomy, seize opportunity, and be trusted to deliver your best every day. 

HOW C2SES 4 LEAD SOFTWARE ARCHITECT WILL MAKE AN IMPACT

You will focus on all aspects of design, analysis, implementation and support of systems, software or other solutions pertaining to deploying C2SES capabilities. You will manage development resources and architecture to construct, implement, and support technology products and other efforts that create new capabilities and impact operations with relevant technologies that meet both functional and non-functional requirements. The ideal candidate projects high energy possesses a passion for state-of-the-art technology, and speaks comfortably from a technical perspective with clients, partners, and across the team. 

Primary responsibilities include:

• Understand the system’s constraints, interactions, unstated requirements, exception conditions, and likely direction of change.
• Lead Agile development team(s) to deliver solutions with architectures that provide capability improvements, reduced sustainment costs and flexibility to adapt quickly to customer needs. Understand high-level features and desired outcomes (both now and future). Assist Agile Team(s) in building, understanding, and analyzing desired outcomes.
• Responsible for the application-level outcomes, prioritization of those outcomes and maintaining a roadmap of capability improvements (in conjunction with the Government) related to the software’s architecture and the end-to-end design.
• Formulate software designs that create solutions meeting various desired outcomes (both now and future) while balancing the goals and constraints on the solutions (i.e. customer environment, cybersecurity, continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD), containerization, services, etc.).
• Clearly communicate the software architecture to Government and Agile teams with varying levels of technical understanding.
• Verify implementation to validate that the delivered software is consistent with the agreed architecture and will meet the desired outcomes.
• See the “big picture” and view the software as part of the C2SES system. See the software not only as a set of components that comprise an application but also as a part of a larger C2SES system of interacting applications.
• Manage change to the software architecture and control the software complexity. Make software architecture and solutions as flexible as possible. Defend against, when appropriate, suggested changes to the software architecture that introduce undue complexity or future supportability issues. Assist with trade off analyses of increased complexity.
• Facilitate technical discussion; incorporate feedback and emergent patterns from the Agile Team(s) back into the overall design
• As appropriate, produce alternate design concepts and detailed approach
• Ensure the design goals – Performance, Modularity, Reliability, Maintainability, Reusability and Accessibility – are met
• Design, test, and evaluate technologies and vendor solutions for inclusion into existing architecture to solve technical or customer problems
• Lead design review & provides feedback
• Ensure backlog includes any quality issues and technical debt relating to architecture
• Clarify quality software requirements
• Identify software risks early in the development cycle
• Provide documented basis for architectural decisions

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED:

Education:

• BS degree in a technical discipline

Required Experience:

• 10+ years of recent experience with Agile Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) from conception through end of life.
• Minimum of five (5) years of proven experience in leading teams in developing architectures.
• Experience designing enterprise architecture with modern, enabling technologies and processes e.g., cloud computing, CI/CD, resilient services, containerization, virtualization, agile design and development, JavaScript frameworks, REST services, standards-based authentication and authorization protocols.
• Experience collaborating with cybersecurity, product owners, users, and developers to design and communicate an innovative and secure architecture that enables continuous delivery of software.
• Experience with decomposing monolithic software into manageable pieces, especially in related software domains.
• Experience designing shared services like caching, eventing, and messaging in distributed environment.

Security Clearance Level:

• Must possess a Top-Secret clearance based on a Special Background Investigation and be eligible for Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI), Nuclear Command and Control (NC2) and Special Access Program (SAP) access.

Location:

On Customer Site

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE:

• 401K with company match
• Comprehensive health and wellness packages
• Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career
• Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications
• Cutting-edge technology you can learn from

Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays