Summary
Lead Architect
Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a Lead Architect supporting customer activities. GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career. At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a Lead Architect, you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter.
HOW A SOFTWARE ENGINEER SME WILL MAKE AN IMPACT
- Work with a team of systems engineers and software developers to specify, design, develop, test and deploy the end-state system.
- Communicate with team leads and senior leadership and rapidly adjust direction in support of new and/or changing requirements.
- Design and guide the implementation and maintenance of JAVA Microservices
- Architect data integration from one system to another via REST API
- Become an expert on an AWS data workflow that includes AWS Lambda, S3, and other such technologies; as well as other cloud providers
- Architect and design the ingestion and normalization of data from multiple data sources
- Develop technical documentation and briefing materials to support program status reviews, control gates, and other presentations as directed by program management
- Work with other enterprise service programs to leverage their capabilities via web services integration
- Architect and coordinate the monitoring of applications in production
- Participate in code reviews
- Creates and designs innovative software updates, refinement, testing and debugging processes to meet business needs.
- Utilizes the comprehensive analysis of project specification, activity, and status to create and design highly ingenious software systems.
- Provides highly ingenious and overarching advice on the documentation of the software or system design.
WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO SUCCEED:
- Education: Bachelor's Degree
- Experience: 15+ yrs
- Required Technical Skills:
- Deep knowledge of AWS Cloud architecture and services
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate) certification
- Knowledge of Azure, Google and Oracle cloud service offerings
- Security Clearance Level: TS/SCI with polygraph
- Desired Technical Skills:
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Professional) certification
- Location: Bethesda, MD - On Customer Site
GDIT IS YOUR PLACE:
- 401K with company match
- Comprehensive health and wellness packages
- Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career
- Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications
- Cutting-edge technology you can learn from
- Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays
The likely salary range for this position is $246,500 - $333,500. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range. Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40 Travel Required: Less than 10% Telecommuting Options: Onsite Work Location: USA MD Bethesda Additional Work Locations: USA VA Herndon - 13857 Mclearen Road (VAS091)
Job Description
Lead Architect
Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a Lead Architect supporting customer activities. GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career. At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a Lead Architect, you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter.
HOW A SOFTWARE ENGINEER SME WILL MAKE AN IMPACT
- Work with a team of systems engineers and software developers to specify, design, develop, test and deploy the end-state system.
- Communicate with team leads and senior leadership and rapidly adjust direction in support of new and/or changing requirements.
- Design and guide the implementation and maintenance of JAVA Microservices
- Architect data integration from one system to another via REST API
- Become an expert on an AWS data workflow that includes AWS Lambda, S3, and other such technologies; as well as other cloud providers
- Architect and design the ingestion and normalization of data from multiple data sources
- Develop technical documentation and briefing materials to support program status reviews, control gates, and other presentations as directed by program management
- Work with other enterprise service programs to leverage their capabilities via web services integration
- Architect and coordinate the monitoring of applications in production
- Participate in code reviews
- Creates and designs innovative software updates, refinement, testing and debugging processes to meet business needs.
- Utilizes the comprehensive analysis of project specification, activity, and status to create and design highly ingenious software systems.
- Provides highly ingenious and overarching advice on the documentation of the software or system design.
WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO SUCCEED:
- Education: Bachelor's Degree
- Experience: 15+ yrs
- Required Technical Skills:
- Deep knowledge of AWS Cloud architecture and services
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate) certification
- Knowledge of Azure, Google and Oracle cloud service offerings
- Security Clearance Level: TS/SCI with polygraph
- Desired Technical Skills:
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Professional) certification
- Location: Bethesda, MD - On Customer Site
GDIT IS YOUR PLACE:
- 401K with company match
- Comprehensive health and wellness packages
- Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career
- Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications
- Cutting-edge technology you can learn from
- Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays
The likely salary range for this position is $246,500 - $333,500. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range. Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40 Travel Required: Less than 10% Telecommuting Options: Onsite Work Location: USA MD Bethesda Additional Work Locations: USA VA Herndon - 13857 Mclearen Road (VAS091)
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