Software Architect - ASL - Open Rank (Hybrid)

Overview:

The Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) is the nonprofit, applied research division of the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). Founded in 1934 as the Engineering Experiment Station, GTRI has grown to more than 2,900 employees, supporting eight laboratories in over 20 locations around the country and performing more than $940 million of problem-solving research annually for government and industry. GTRI's renowned researchers combine science, engineering, economics, policy, and technical expertise to solve complex problems for the U.S. federal government, state, and industry.   

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Project/Unit Description

The Applied Systems Laboratory (ASL) Air and Missile Defense Systems (AMDS) Division of the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) is seeking an experienced Software Architect to support concept development, design of software features, systems design and system architecture design for new or upgraded capabilities and components (i.e., sensors and weapons) into the Army Integrated Air and Missile Defense (AIAMD) architecture. Located in Huntsville, Alabama, ASL conducts world-class applied research in system modeling, simulation, analysis, testing, evaluation, and software development in support of the government sponsors.

Job Purpose

The Software Architect designs, develops, and deploys software solutions for GTRI's applied research sponsors. The Software Architect provides technical leadership, including design documentation that details recommendations and implementation details about software subsystems, hardware technologies, and deployment requirements. The Software Architect is knowledgeable in continuous development / continuous integration (CD/CI) best practices and enabling technology, cloud platforms for deployment, and development environment creation and management. The Software Architect is also able to independently implement any portion of the design/development process as needed for custom implementations.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with various stakeholders to determine software requirements.
• Create high-level product specifications and design documents.
• Provides development team with architectural blueprints to follow.
• Perform software architecture development.
• Decompose system or module requirements.
• Define interfaces, data structures and broad data management approach.
• Create and manage development environment.
• Deploy software to production environment.
• Test the final product to ensure it is completely functional and meets requirements.
• Guide and assist the development team throughout the process.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues with coding or design.
• Ensure team adheres to development schedules and deadlines.
• Contribute to research reports, white papers, and competitive proposals.

Additional Responsibilities

• Support concept and feature development for integration of new or upgraded mission command capabilities, sensors, and weapons into the Army Integrated Air and Missile Defense (AIAMD) architecture using Agile methods.
• Provide technical subject matter expertise for underlying mission command, sensor, and weapon technologies.
• Utilize artifacts from previously developed concepts and current AIAMD architecture, requirements, and design to provide context and constrain concept and feature development.
• Perform investigations and develop reports to determine modifications to the AIAMD system architecture, system requirements, software requirements, interfaces and software design to support implementation of features.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to elaborate concepts and solicit feedback.
  Perform analysis trades and develop algorithms to support implementation of feat