Product Architect

Product Architect

Job Category: Engineering

Time Type: Full time

Minimum Clearance Required to Start: None

Employee Type: Regular

Percentage of Travel Required: Up to 10%

Type of Travel: Local

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The Opportunity:

CACI is seeking a Product Architect to join our team and support the Border Enforcement Applications for Government Leading-Edge Information Technology (IT) (BEAGLE) contract.  You will have the opportunity to apply your knowledge, skills and experience to building a truly modern application that is new development and cloud native.  You will work in a SecDevOps environment that includes continuous integration/continuous deployment and test automation in a consistent agile software development framework.   If you thrive in a culture of innovation and bring creative ideas to solve complex technical and procedural problems at the at the team and portfolio levels, then this opportunity is for you!

Join this passionate team of industry-leading individuals supporting best practices in agile software development for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).   You will support the men and women charged with safeguarding the American people and enhancing the nation’s safety and security.

CBP agents and officers are on the front lines, every day, protecting our national security by combining customs, immigration, border security, and agricultural protection into one coordinated and supportive activity.  ASF programs thrive in a culture of innovation and are constantly seeking individuals who can bring creative ideas to solve complex problems, both technical and procedural at the team and portfolio levels.

As an Architect for an Agile team, you will design and implement comprehensive application architecture encompassing user interface, API, microservices, databases and infrastructure

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for defining and implementing product architecture, ensuring scalability, performance and reliability

• Design and implement novel approaches to fulfill business needs, 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, technical feasibility and comply with enterprise and program level architecture and standards

• 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 and onboard new applications to the cloud-based infrastructure

• Evangelize the developed solution to team members and work with team members to slice and dice stories into tasks and support efficient task execution to meet project deadlines

• Motivating developers, testers and creating a space where they can ask questions and voice their concerns

• Provide technical guidance and leadership to cross-functional teams through mentoring, coaching, and peer reviews

• Keep up to date with industry trends and developments

• Designing solutions in a Multi-Tenant Cloud Architecture

• Identifies risks, opportunities, compliance issues or other architectural concerns

• Active participation in Agile ceremonies, artifact creation, sprint testing, regression testing, demonstrations and retrospectives and solution releases

• Review Cybersecurity Assessments and Static Code Analysis of developed software to define remediation's and improve software quality

• Develop and maintain technical documentation, including architecture diagrams and design documents

• Taking high-level business requirements and mapping them to tasks for developers and testers

• Designing technical solutions using established standards and breaking them down into units of work for your team

• Working with business analysts to ensure coverage of requirements

• Creating a roadmap to production for your product in a phased approach, considering legacy system decommissioning

• Overseeing project construction, reviewing pull requests, ensuring test coverage, maintaining high quality code, mentoring developers, removing blockers, and presenting your team’s product to various stakeholders.

• Systems design, systems development, systems integration, application design

• Experience migrating legacy applications to microservices based architecture deployed to the cloud

• Anticipating issues and formulatin