Senior Solutions Architect

Description

The architect will work with users, stakeholders, and product owners to translate mission needs into scalable solutions, guide development teams, and serve as a technical bridge ensuring operational viability and compliance with security and enterprise standards.

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• Lead architecture and solution design for enterprise‑scale applications and platform services.
• Engage users, stakeholders, and product owners to elicit and decompose requirements into architectural designs and technical backlogs.
• Define system and application architectures, conduct trade studies, select technologies, and specify interfaces.
• Provide architectural guidance to development teams, ensuring alignment with standards, security, and maintainability.
• Act as a technical bridge between mission needs and engineering execution.
• Mentor engineers and influence technical decisions across multiple teams.
• Maintain an active Secret clearance.
• Design scalable, maintainable systems, microservices APIs, event‑driven architectures, and secure CI/CD pipelines.
• Apply strong Agile methodology skills, requirement decomposition, and technical leadership.
• Provide SATCOM domain expertise: ground/space/network integration, EMI/EMC impacts, service ordering and provisioning workflows, and data flows between ordering, management, and monitoring systems.
• Utilize Infrastructure‑as‑Code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.
• Implement observability solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK stack.
• Apply cloud‑native security and compliance tooling.
• Design and operate Kubernetes clusters, including monitoring and administration.
• Work with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, GCP, or Oracle Cloud.
• Integrate service mesh technologies (e.g., Linkerd) and manage certificates.
• Implement identity and access management solutions such as Keycloak.

Requirements

• Hold a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• Possess 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years in solution architecture and 2+ years in DevOps or platform engineering.
• Demonstrate hands‑on experience with microservices, Linux, Java/Spring Boot, Python/Bash scripting, CI/CD platforms (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins), Docker, Kafka/RabbitMQ, and PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB.
• Familiar with front‑end architecture (e.g., Angular) and GitOps tools like ArgoCD or Helm.

Benefits

Compensation ranges from $156,000 to $196,000 in California and will reflect the candidate’s knowledge, skills, abilities, and internal parity. KBR offers a competitive benefits package including a 401(k) plan with company match, medical/dental/vision insurance, paid time off, flexible work schedules, and professional training and development opportunities.

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance