Role Overview
This position is part of a dynamic team at the forefront of enterprise-level product platform development to support the next generation of cyber network operations. In this role, you will contribute to developing a platform that simplifies complex infrastructure management across cloud-native and on-premises environments. Your work will involve architecting scalable systems, implementing GitOps workflows for version-controlled and automated operations, and designing declarative interfaces. The goal is to create tools and processes that bridge the gap between development and operations, enhancing productivity and reliability in diverse infrastructure settings. You will be expected to provide architectural design, systems design, and elegant solutions to pressing operational challenges.

As a Product Architect (PA), you will lead by doing, helping to prototype product features and capabilities, proving out viability of implementations and ensuring a cohesive technological baseline is maintained as the “source of truth” of the product. This baseline will support platform implementations across various programs. As a PA, you will oversee those implementations, task out team members to ensure compliance with the main baseline, and collaborate with various mission teams to gain an understanding of customer requirements that can evolve the platform over time. 

Responsibilities

• Lead prototyping efforts to validate design concepts and technologies, while supporting the product baseline lifecycle from discovery to production support
• Communicate thoughtful designs, architecture, and product integration expectations across teams
• Be the person who hold the vision in their mind at all times, and allowing that influence architecture and team execution across the various projects consuming the product baseline
• Exemplify the “lead by doing” workflow - building, prototyping, and demonstrating should the priority
• Develop robust and high-quality software aligned with the overall product vision, balancing user requirements with strategic goals and consistently delivering working solutions on schedule
• Work with the Chief Product Architect to track work, develop roadmaps, and ensure programs that consume the product baseline are driving towards a common goal of product alignment
• Converge the project teams to a common baseline - understand the project consumers of the platform and establish a plan to transition, educate, and collaborate with project tech leads to help them practice good productization consumption processes

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline. (Degree requirement can be met with 4 years of hands-on experience in a Software Engineering or similar full-time position.)
• 12+ years as a software engineer, product engineer, or equivalent role, leading development teams and missions to successful implementations 
• Ability to collaborate as a team but execute independently
• Thrives in a high-trust, adaptable team environment
• Familiar with contributing to or leading the design of new capabilities
• Experience writing code in a general-purpose language such as Python or GoLang
• Highly proficient with Kubernetes (K8s) deployment strategies, cluster lifecycle (deployment, troubleshooting, scaling), and container orchestration
• Experience implementing modern DevOps practices and tools (e.g., CI/CD, IaC, GitOps) in production deployment workflows
• Proficient in containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Podman)
• Highly experienced designing and implementing solutions on Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Current US TS/SCI security clearance

Preferred Qualifications (in addition to the required qualifications)

• Experience leading multiple teams and projects to a common end-state vision
• Experience in the private sector building out commercial products 
• Experience and/or familiarity with Crossplane and Backstage platform tools
• Familiarity with Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) utilities
• Experience and/or familiarity with Generative AI platforms, tools, and concepts of deploying LLMs and similar AI models for various applications driven by K8s