Staff Software Architect

We are seeking a talented and highly motivated software architect with experience in communicating with customers, stakeholders, software developers, system engineers, and senior leadership to collect mission requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, develop feature roadmaps, and product strategy. Job includes shaping the long-term technical strategy to evolve and deliver software architecture to enable various DoD missions. Lead mission decomposition into functions, requirements, interface definitions that can be implemented by software developers. Ensure the autonomy architecture remains aligned with Government Reference Architectures (GRAs). Bachelor's Degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline from an accredited university and at least 12 years' experience, or STEM master's degree with 10 years' experience, or a STEM PHD with 8 years' experience. Experience with Agile best practices and processes; tasking, accountability, interception, process enforcement Experience designing and architecting on-board mission system software ensuring portability, modularity, adaptability, and scalability. Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/network development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and V&V Experience designing micro-service based containerized software using open standards Your ability to transfer and maintain the final adjudicated Secret clearance (DoD must be in-scope or enrolled in Continuous Evaluation) and any program access(es) required for the position within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the Company. Experience with Government Reference Architectures like OMS/UCI Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, scaling) operational user experiences Knowledge or experience with software infrastructure such as code (Kubernetes, Podman, K3s, Helm, etc.)