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STR · 7 hours ago

Principal Software Architect

Arlington, VA

Full-time

Hybrid

Lead/Staff

$206K/yr - $284K/yr

10+ years exp

STR’s Intelligence Division is focused on developing advanced analytics and machine learning solutions for national security challenges. As a Principal Software Architect, you will lead a team in designing and implementing solutions that leverage statistical machine learning algorithms, while collaborating closely with stakeholders to address critical problems.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Machine Learning

Growth Opportunities

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Lead an active, distributed team of STR and subcontractor engineers in creating and maintaining system infrastructure, including data pipeline architecture, algorithm execution, storage, distribution and access

Be a senior STR technical leader onsite, engaging on new requirements, providing ad hoc status updates, coordinating with subcontractors, and ensuring that a corpus of programs are collaborating on data, technical lessons learned, and technical integration activities

Understand stakeholders, end users, and their constraints to create customer solutions that address mission requirements

Architect and implement capabilities for integrating component technologies and orchestrating overall workflows

Empower engineers, and scientists to act with a meaningful degree of autonomy by developing and clearly communicating a unifying product vision and strategy

Identify and implement opportunities to automate manual processes, optimize data delivery, system performance and scalability

Monitor for changes to data or environment that could significantly impact system performance to mitigate issues and maximize system uptime

Perform testing to ensure system function and performance

Qualification

Machine LearningCloud ComputingSoftware DevelopmentData Pipeline ArchitecturePythonDockerKubernetesSQL DatabasesNoSQL DatabasesCollaborationOrganizational SkillsPresentation SkillsProblem Solving

Required

Ability to obtain a Top Secret security clearance, for which U.S. citizenship is needed by U.S. Government

BS, MS, PhD in a related field or equivalent experience

At least 10+ years' experience in software development

Motivated collaborator who is looking for the opportunity to work with a team of high-end researchers and engineers to develop and deploy novel machine learning solutions for real mission impact

Aptitude for collaborating with stakeholders across a wide range of technical comfort levels

Organized, detail-oriented, and with an ability to work both independently and collaboratively

Experience with a range of software maturity, from functional prototypes to production-level systems; experience troubleshooting issues and identifying opportunities for improvement

Experience supporting and working within a large, cross-functional, distributed team

Experience with translating mission needs into production software, decomposing a problem into addressable component parts while identifying and tracking product risk

Proficiency with one or more high-level programming languages, like Python

Experience with cloud computing platforms, preferably AWS

Experience with software delivery and containerization: e.g. Docker, Kubernetes

Working knowledge of Linux Operating System and shell scripting

Relational SQL and NoSQL databases: e.g. Postgres, Cassandra

Preferred

Active TS/SCI security clearance with CI poly

Prior military experience in delivering intelligence analytic products

Strong presentation and organizational skills

Demonstrated experience with DevSecOps and SAFe Agile

Possession of SAFe Agile, Security+, other certifications, or willingness to get them

History of manipulating, processing and extracting value from large, disconnected datasets

Experience with development of APIs (e.g., REST), access control, and auditing

Experience with message queuing, stream processing, and optimizing ‘big data' data stores

Experience developing build processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency and workload management

Expert SQL knowledge and experience working with a variety of databases

Experience using the following software/tools: Big Data tools: e.g. Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, ElasticSearch, AWS: Athena, RDB, AWS credentials from Cloud Practitioner to Solutions Architect, Data Lakes: e.g. Delta Lake, Apache Hudi, Apache Iceberg, Distributed SQL interfaces: e.g. Apache Hive, Presto/Trino, Spark, Data pipeline and workflow management tools: e.g Luigi, Airflow, Dashboard frontends: e.g. Grafana, Kibana, Stream-processing systems: e.g. Storm, Spark-Streaming, etc