Remote Product Architect

Summary

Join Syzygy, a technology company dedicated to delivering solutions for information awareness challenges, as a Technical Lead for an agile team. The ideal candidate has strong desire to make an impact in homeland security and can work successfully in a fast-paced environment.

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to pass CBP background investigation
• 7+ years' overall experience in software development, including hands-on experience with programming, software design patterns, and architecture as a software architect, tech lead, or a senior developer
• Familiarity with design patterns, software design methodologies to create modular, scalable, and maintainable systems
• Professional experience operating within cross-functional teams and groups
• Knowledge of different software development processes, such as Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, or DevOps (CI/CD using GitLab/Jenkins), and their implications on architectural decisions
• Expertise in various architectural styles, such as client-server, microservices, event-driven, or layered architectures, and their trade-offs
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud) and understanding of distributed system concepts, including scalability, fault tolerance, and data consistency
• Knowledge of RESTful APIs and experience designing, implementing, and integrating APIs in a secure and efficient manner
• Familiarity with relational (e.g., Postgres) and NoSQL (e.g., DynamoDB, MongoDB) databases, data modeling, and data storage best practices
• Skills in analyzing and optimizing software performance, including profiling, benchmarking, and code optimization techniques
• Awareness of common software security vulnerabilities and strategies to mitigate them, such as input validation, secure coding practices, and encryption
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams and convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders

Responsibilities

• As a technical lead for an agile team, you are responsible for all aspects of application architecture including user interface, APIs, microservices, databases, and infrastructure
• Pursue new methods for fulfilling business requirements, including new tools, development strategies, and testing strategies, and evangelize solutions with multiple peers
• Maintain sound understanding of enterprise and program level architecture
• Liaison with business analysts to understand business needs and develop solutions that meet business needs and comply with enterprise and program level architecture and standards
• Work with business analysts and scrum master to create implementation/development plan for new features/applications/solutions by developing epics and stories
• Participate in Agile ceremonies by leading in all technical aspects, including leading the platform demos to the Product Owner and all applicable stakeholders
• Collaborate with the SecDevOps team to onboarding new applications to the cloud-based infrastructure
• Evangelize the developed solution to team members and work with team members to breakup stories into tasks and assist in completion of tasks in timely fashion
• Motivating developers, testers and creating a space where they can ask questions and voice their concerns
• Keep up to date with industry trends and developments
• Delegating tasks and ensuring all daily, sprint and release goals are achieved
• Performs Architecture design and reviews as required, ensuring initiatives are aligned with future state
• Designing solutions in a Multi-Tenant Cloud Architecture that will support legacy .NET, Java, and COTS client/server applications
• Identifies risks, opportunities, compliance issues or other architectural concerns
• Active participation in Agile Scrum sprint planning, artifact creation, sprint testing, regression testing, demonstrations and retrospectives and solution releases
• Develop product teams technical skills through mentoring, coaching, and peer reviews
• Review Cybersecurity Assessments and Static Code Analysis of developed software to define remediation's and improve software quality

Preferred Qualifications

• DHS government contractor experience
• Deep experience in our tech stack: Java 17, Spring/Spring boot, Typescript, UI state management, ORM such as Hibernate, PostgreSQL, Amazon AWS
• Having served in a technical lead role for one or more product teams
• Optional but beneficial certifications include AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect
• Having contributed to development of enterprise architecture and standards and ability to enforce these standards
• Experience in Continuous integration, Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) as well as SecDevOps processes and tools

Benefits

• Competitive Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance
• 401k with Employer Match
• Company paid: Short Term Disability (STD)
• Long Term Disability (LTD)
• Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D)
• Life Insurance
• Company paid Sick Time
• Company paid Vacation Time
• Company paid Holidays
• Bonus Incentive Opportunities
• Employee Assistance Program
• Referral Incentive program
• Comprehensive Healthy lifestyle benefits
• 100% Remote