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Software Architect – AI-Enabled Enterprise Platform

Agile Defense· Corporate – Product & Innovation
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Hybrid (Remote), Hybrid (DMV)$150k - $190kRegularPosted 3w ago

About the role

Hands-on Software Architect responsible for architecture, technical direction, and release management of Workforce, an AI-enabled enterprise platform deployed as microservices to Azure AKS in GCC, with a focus on secure, user-centered workflows and cloud-native delivery.

Responsibilities

  • Own the architecture, technical direction, and engineering standards for the Workforce platform and its microservices.
  • Define and document service boundaries, API contracts, data flows, integration patterns, and key technical decisions.
  • Lead the design of the platform’s AI-enabled architecture, including tool calling, system instructions, context management, prompt and control flow design, and integration with LLM-based services.
  • Design secure enterprise integrations, including identity, document workflows, collaboration tools, and external platform APIs.
  • Identify and manage technical debt, platform risk, and architectural drift, making pragmatic decisions about refactor vs. ship.
  • Lead technical execution for the Workforce engineering team, including solution design, task breakdown, estimation, sequencing, and code review.
  • Partner with the Product Manager to translate product goals into technical designs, milestones, and engineering work.
  • Establish and uphold standards for code quality, automated testing, documentation, and definition of done.
  • Mentor engineers through design reviews, pairing, code reviews, and technical feedback.
  • Serve as the primary technical point of contact for engineering leadership, product, and customer stakeholders on status, risk, and technical tradeoffs.
  • Serve as Release Manager for the platform’s multi-service release train, coordinating release readiness, notes, and records.
  • Represent the team in change control and release processes with rollback plans.
  • Own production posture, including rollback decisions, incident triage, root cause follow-through, and post-release verification.
  • Collaborate on CI/CD pipelines, Helm deployments to AKS, observability, autoscaling, and performance testing.
  • Contribute directly to codebase across frontend and backend, including feature implementation and production fixes.
  • Build and maintain full stack capabilities across modern web front ends and backend web APIs.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field, or equivalent professional experience.
  • 10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
  • 5+ years designing and owning production application architecture, leading technical execution for an engineering team as a software architect, technical lead, or senior technical owner.
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance.

Skills

Required:Object-oriented programmingFrontend developmentBackend API design and integrationRelease managementAI-first application patterns
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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