SOF Intelligence Solutions, LLC is a Professional Services firm operating in the National Capital Region.  We provide a wide range of data and systems interoperability solutions, consulting, strategic planning, mission support staffing, and Advisory and Assistance Services (A&AS) focused on the Intelligence Community (IC), the Special Operations community,  and the Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR), and Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) enterprises.

SOF Intelligence Solutions, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

**Contingent upon contract award**

As a Solution Architect, you will provide our data teams with technical guidance, develop architecture, and design artifacts for the end to end solution.  You may also be called to provide technical leadership in a small product team.  Additionally, in this role you will have responsibilities to foster technology innovation, identify opportunities for technical efficiencies, create and modify best practices and communicate those to the appropriate technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Work integrally with the data team to modify and/or develop solutions to allow data interoperability
• Providing architectural subject matter expertise across the entire solution; including communicating architectural decisions and mentoring other technical staff around the various technologies and decisions
• Provide overall technical leadership to smaller working teams as needed
• Partner with Product Owners/business SMEs to analyze the business need and provide guidance on solution options and trade-offs; ensure the overall technical solution is aligned with the business needs
• Drive the creation and modifications of the end-to-end Product architecture, identifying and engaging all technical resources necessary to contribute to the architecture\design; this includes ensuring the solution is consistent with architecture and design standards
• Identify and drive technical efficiencies where appropriate, create/modify best practices and communicate those to the appropriate technical stakeholders
• Stay current with latest tools, technology ideas, patterns and methodologies; share knowledge by clearly articulating results and ideas to key stakeholders

Required Education and Experience:

Level 1

• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical field

Level 2

• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical field with five years of professional experience, or no experience with a Master's Degree

Level 3

• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical field with ten years of professional experience, or three years of experience with a Master's Degree

The following experience must be reflected on the resume:

• Knowledge of programming and/or Hands-on technical architecture experience
• Knowledge of, or experience with, full cycle application development (Full SDLC experience: design, development, delivery, etc.), Agile, DevOps or CI\CD (Jenkins/Bitbucket)
• Knowledge of, or experience with, implementing modern, scalable and extensible application and infrastructure design patterns, complex data algorithms, micro-service architectures, disposable, reactive, stateless and distributed patterns which ensure long term technical viability of new deployments
• Knowledge of, or experience with, native cloud architectures; AWS preferred
• Knowledge of, or experience with, architecting streaming/event driven data platforms, triangulating data lineage (Alation preferred)/data quality issues and familiarity with existing data operating models
• Knowledge of, or ability to, discover and define functional requirements and to transform them into technical requirements and architecture definition
• Knowledge of, or experience with, scalable data warehousing platforms and data marts (Snowflake preferred)
• Ability to exhibit flexibility, initiative, and innovation in dealing with ambiguous, fast-paced situations
• Must be a U.S. citizen and able to obtain a Secret security clearance

Desired Education and Experience:

• Level 1:  Two years of related professional experience
• Level 2 and 3: Master’s Degree preferred
• Experience working on intelligence community issues, to include experience working with intelligence community tools and databases
• Proven ability to lead a group through an architectural development process and collaborate with technical teams, business and other constituents
• Experience leading small technical teams and a proven ability to mentor and guide multiple-disciplined (full stack) technical teams
• Proven ability to influence technology strategy and best practices across peer and leadership groups that support an agile\rapid development culture
• Outstanding communication skills (verbal and written) and ability to communicate with internal and external customers at all levels of management, including communicating technical information to nontechnical audiences
• A strong intellectual curiosity to continually challenge what exists and explore what should be changed to best meet evolving business and market
• Active Secret security clearance

TRAVEL REQUIRED: Unknown, but assumed yes

REMOTE or TELEWORK: Unknown at this time with things changing due to COVID

EDUCATION REQUIRED:  Bachelors Degree Minimum

CAREER LEVEL:  Entry, Journeyman, and Senior

SECURITY CLEARANCE: The selected applicant will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information

MILITARY INSTALLATION ACCESS: This position may reside on a military installation. The selected applicants must be a U.S. citizen and be able to qualify for and obtain a base access pass

*CONTINGENT UPON CONTRACT AWARD* 

SOF Intelligence Solutions, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer.