Senior Application Architect

Softrams is one of the fastest growing digital services firms in the Washington Metropolitan regions crafting human-centered solutions and empowering digital services with a focus on HX, AI, cloud, DevOps and cyber security. Our offices are located in Leesburg VA, Baltimore MD, and Plano TX, and our teams are spread across the U.S. 
Recognized as a Top Workplace USA (2024)Recognized as one of the Top Workplaces in Technology (2023, 2021) INC 5000, Fastest growing companies in America (2023, 2022) Washington Business Journal Top 75 Fastest Growing Companies in Greater Washington area 2020 NXT UP - Top Federal Emerging Technology and consulting firms 2020 Inaugural DC Metro’s Most Successful Companies 2020 Washington Technology Fast 50 NVTC Tech 100 (2020, 2019) 
Job Description:  The Product/ Application Architect (modern Angular and React front-end frameworks, with NodeJS and AWS for the backend) is expected to be a hands-on technical expert, capable of directly implementing proof of concept for solutions they design for customer requirements. The candidate’s insights into these customer engagements will influence future product releases. The candidate will be required to present challenges, solutions, and guidance to audiences including senior customer technical and business decision makers, executives, and internal engineering staff and leadership.   The candidate should possess strong software engineering and architectural knowledge, building cloud solutions. As a member of the engineering team, this person will help sprint teams understand and prioritize customer requirements and feedback for the implementation and improvement of product features. We are looking for someone who is not afraid to roll up their sleeves and lean in with the developers.   To be successful in this challenging position, the candidate will need exceptional collaboration with cross-functional groups, strategic thinking, and inter-personal skills. The ideal candidate possesses excellent communication and presentation skills and can effectively interface with employees and customers at all levels. As a thought leader, this person will also need to have a deep understanding of the best practices and strategies for web application development in the AWS cloud.  A professional with proven ability to lead development and delivery of required contract software products as scheduled. We are looking for someone to take our project teams to the next level in the adoption of Agile and Scrum practices. The ideal candidate will bring previous experience, best practices, and a collaborative attitude to deliver software products for our federal clients. 

Federal Requirements:

• Ability to obtain a U.S. Federal position of Public Trust clearance designation.  
• Must reside in and be able to perform work in the United States.  
• Must have lived in the United States for 3 of the last 5 years.  

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree and at least 4 years leading/ architecting all phases of the agile software development life cycle. 
• Over eight (8) years of progressive experience as developer, senior developer, lead developer etc. building and architecting large scale enterprise applications using Javascript or Python to build SPA and REST based architectures. 
• Excellent oral and written communication skills and must be detailed oriented.  
• Must be able to effectively and professionally communicate with management, peers and customers as well as demonstrate sound judgment/reasoning skills.  
• Expertise with Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, Power Point, SharePoint, etc.).  
• Must be able to successfully pass a federal background investigation to obtain a Public Trust designation.  
• Experience in an Agile environment, leading agile sprint teams and using agile collaboration tools (Jira, confluence, etc.) 
• Demonstrated ability to diagnose business problems, and support to come up with product roadmaps and timelines for product implementation. 
• Demonstrated ability to analyze complex data and business for business operations; demonstrated ability to understand user needs for system and interfaces and come up with requirement documentation. Able to perform end-to-end business process analysis to identify gaps and come up with improvements. 
• Verifiable experience with architecting applications, systems or products using agile & iterative practices 
• Must be able to exercise critical and rational thinking to identify alternate solutions, strengths & weakness of each option, documenting and discussing them with stakeholders to inform decisions. 
• Must have demonstrated experience in documenting complex technical and business problems in a simple & intuitive mann