Product Architect

Syzygy Integration is a technology company dedicated to delivering innovative solutions that address complex information awareness challenges. We are seeking a highly skilled Product Architect to join our world-class team.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in software development, architecture, and technical leadership. They will be responsible for designing and implementing scalable, secure, and maintainable systems, as well as leading cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality products.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and implement application architecture, including user interface, APIs, microservices, databases, and infrastructure
• Pursue new methods for fulfilling business requirements, including new tools, development strategies, and testing strategies
• Maintain a sound understanding of enterprise and program level architecture
• Liaison with business analysts to understand business needs and develop solutions that meet business needs and comply with enterprise and program level architecture and standards
• Work with business analysts and scrum master to create implementation/development plan for new features/applications/solutions
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, including leading platform demos to the Product Owner and all applicable stakeholders
• Collaborate with the SecDevOps team to onboard new applications to the cloud-based infrastructure
• Evangelize the developed solution to team members and work with team members to break down stories into tasks and assist in completion of tasks in a timely fashion
• Motivate developers, testers, and create a space where they can ask questions and voice their concerns
• Keep up to date with industry trends and developments
• Delegate tasks and ensure all daily, sprint, and release goals are achieved
• Perform architecture design and reviews as required, ensuring initiatives are aligned with future state
• Design solutions in a Multi-Tenant Cloud Architecture that will support legacy.NET, Java, and COTS client/server applications
• Identify risks, opportunities, compliance issues, or other architectural concerns
• Active participation in Agile Scrum sprint planning, artifact creation, sprint testing, regression testing, demonstrations, and retrospectives and solution releases
• Develop product teams' technical skills through mentoring, coaching, and peer reviews
• Review Cybersecurity Assessments and Static Code Analysis of developed software to define remediation's and improve software quality

Requirements:

• Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to pass CBP background investigation
• 7+ years' overall experience in software development, including hands-on experience with programming, software design patterns, and architecture as a software architect, tech lead, or a senior developer
• Familiarity with design patterns, software design methodologies to create modular, scalable, and maintainable systems
• Professional experience operating within cross-functional teams and groups
• Knowledge of different software development processes, such as Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, or DevOps (CI/CD using GitLab/Jenkins), and their implications on architectural decisions
• Expertise in various architectural styles, such as client-server, microservices, event-driven, or layered architectures, and their trade-offs
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud) and understanding of distributed system concepts, including scalability, fault tolerance, and data consistency
• Knowledge of RESTful APIs and experience designing, implementing, and integrating APIs in a secure and efficient manner
• Familiarity with relational (e.g., Postgres) and NoSQL (e.g., DynamoDB, MongoDB) databases, data modeling, and data storage best practices
• Skills in analyzing and optimizing software performance, including profiling, benchmarking, and code optimization techniques
• Awareness of common software security vulnerabilities and strategies to mitigate them, such as input validation, secure coding practices, and encryption
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams and convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders

Nice to Have:

• DHS government contractor experience
• Deep experience in our tech stack: Java 17, Spring/Spring boot, Typescript, UI state management, ORM such as Hibernate, PostgreSQL, Amazon AWS
• Having served in a technical lead role for one or more product teams
• Optional but beneficial certifications include AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect
• Having contributed to development of enterprise architecture and standards and ability to enforce these standards
• Experience in Continuous integration, Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) as well as SecDevOps processes and tools

Experience and Skills:

• Taking high-level business requirements and mapping them to tasks for developers and testers
• 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 formulating remedial actions
• Collaborating with Developers, Program Managers, Testers, UI/UX, and Production Support Engineers to implement innovative technical solutions via iterative approach reducing time to delivery
• Excellent technical, diagnostic, and troubleshooting skills

Benefits:

• Competitive Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance
• 401k with Employer Match
• Company-paid Short Term Disability (STD), Long Term Disability (LTD), Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D), Life Insurance
• Company-paid Sick Time, Vacation Time, Holidays
• Bonus Incentive Opportunities
• Employee Assistance Program
• Referral Incentive program
• Comprehensive Healthy lifestyle benefits
• 100% Remote