Principal Software Architect

At Two Six Technologies, we build, deploy, and implement innovative products that solve the world’s most complex challenges today. Through unrivaled collaboration and unwavering trust, we push the boundaries of what’s possible to empower our team and support our customers in building a safer global future.

At Two Six Technologies, we build, deploy, and implement innovative products that solve the world’s most complex challenges today. Through unrivaled collaboration and unwavering trust, we push the boundaries of what’s possible to empower our team and support our customers in building a safer global future.

Two Six Technologies is looking to add a Principal Software Architect to our team building a next generation networking situational awareness and command and control platform. The candidate should have demonstrated experience creating back-end architectures for global-scale, high availability systems that integrate with heterogeneous third-party data sources and services, some of which may provide high-volume, high-throughput data. Ideally the candidate would also be experienced in architecting systems that allow for low-latency data retrieval and processing (using different resource scaling and parallelization strategies when necessary), data flow configuration/prioritization, shared tenancy by multiple users/user groups, and situations where data from disparate offline deployments must be merged together. The  architect should have a deep understanding of relevant programming languages (Python 3 at a minimum, Go desired), different databases (SQL, NoSQL, etc.) and tradeoffs between them, data model and ontology development, API design and development, microservice design and development, and different forms of service-to-service communication (message queues, event streams, etc.). The candidate should be experienced leading a team of engineers and creating engineering-level documentation (roadmaps, implementation plans, etc.) as well as presentations to less technical audiences.

Responsibilities Include:

• Architecting large software platforms and/or major components of platforms for US Government customers, taking ownership of such from inception through delivery and maintenance
• Researching technologies and creating rapid prototypes to determine optimal solutions and trade-offs
• Creating system diagrams, technical implementation plans, and roadmaps for new systems
• Leading and mentoring more junior engineers
• Implementing (and leading the implementation of) commercial-quality components and associated tests

 

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• Minimum 8 years experience in a software engineering leadership role leading a team or teams
• Minimum 3 years experience architecting and delivering into production a high availability and/or  large-data software platform for a U.S. Government customer or a commercial company
• Experience presenting technical plans and status reports up to an executive level, and ability to tune highly technical discussions to the audience
• Minimum 5 years experience in Python 3 development
• Minimum 5 years experience engineering systems with a wide variety of SQL and NoSQL databases
• Minimum 5 years experience engineering systems that use modular and/or microservice components and message queues, event streams, or other communication systems between them
• Minimum 5 years experience designing APIs
• Eligibility and willingness to obtain and maintain a government security clearance up to TS/SCI

Desired Qualifications:

• Active TS/SCI security clearance
• Experience with Python packages: FastAPI, requests, asyncio, flask, Tornado, or similar
• Experience with Apache Kafka, Flink, and/or Airflow
• Experience with Golang
• Familiarity with Elasticsearch
• Experience in React or Vue 3
• Experience with gRPC development
• Experience architecting for deployment to cloud environments such as AWS or MS Azure as well as bare metal
• Experience with automated test development and frameworks
• Docker and/or Kubernetes experience
• Experience using Jira in a development workflow
• Experience working in an Agile environment
• Experience working in a hybrid environment
• Experience working in fast-paced, deadline-driven environments

Location:

• If not located in Arlington, must be willing to travel up to 50% time as required by the project/team/customer

Citizenship and Clearance:

• Eligibility and willingness to obtain and maintain a government security clearance up to TS/SCI

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