Job Description

Job Status: Position is active, funded, and is contingent upon customer acceptance
Location: Springfield, VA or St. Louis, MO (onsite)
Clearance Required: Must be a U.S. Citizen and possess a current and active TS/SCI clearance granted by the Department of Defense or an Intelligence Community agency. Must be able to pass a Counterintelligence (CI) Polygraph.
Background:
Assured Consulting Solutions provides strategic and innovative solutions for customer needs across the business, technology, and organizational spectrum. As a member of our team, you will have the chance to work with customers that are both Government and industry leaders and technology innovators.
We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated Mid-level Software Architect to join our team and assist in the design and development of software solutions for complex applications problems, API design, data services, platform services, cloud services and infrastructure services to meet user requirements and align to strategic goals and the Enterprise Architecture. The Mid-Level Software Architect understands/performs software development and assists with making high-level design choices.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Designs, develops, maintains, and documents software solution architectures ensuring traceability to the Enterprise architecture and Enterprise requirements.
• Conducts the analysis of user requirements, procedures, and problems to automate or improve existing software systems.
• Develops proposed changes to the software solutions architecture design based on analysis of requirements and new technology.
• Creates prototypes to evaluate new technologies.

Required Qualifications:

• A minimum of six years of experience working software design and architecture in government or industry.
• Experience in one of the following areas: cloud computing, service orientation, containerization, micro-services, API development or DevSecOps.
• Experience building and delivering working products to customers in a modern, cloud-based software environment.

Desired Qualifications:

• Working knowledge of Model Based Systems Engineering, processes, tools and languages.
• Previous NGA and/or NSG/ASG program/project work experience.
• Previous IC or DoD program/project work experience.

Essential Job Functions:
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires employers to focus on the essential functions of a position to determine whether an individual is qualified. Essential job functions are the fundamental job duties that an applicant or employee must be able to perform, with or without reasonable accommodation. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please contact ACS Human Resources at (703) 662-5062.
The physical requirements of this position include:

• Excellent communication and coordination skills. Strong writing skills
• Ability to work in a government sit cubicle environment

Education Qualifications:
Requires a bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Systems Engineering, Engineering, Engineering Management, Information Technology, Mathematics, System Engineering, or a related STEM Degree Program.
Six years of experience as a Software Architect may be substituted in lieu of a degree.
Years of Experience:

• 12+ years w/ High School Diploma
• 6+ years w/ Bachelor's Degree

Position Type: Full-Time
Shift: Day
Export Control: For all positions requiring access to technology/software source code that is subject to export control laws, employment with the company is contingent on either verifying U.S.-person status or obtaining any necessary license. The applicant will be required to answer certain questions for export control purposes, and that information will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. ACS may choose not to apply for a license for such individuals whose access to export-controlled technology or software source code may require authorization and may decline to proceed with an applicant on that basis alone.
Assured Consulting Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. Minorities, females, disabled and protected veterans are urged to apply. ACS' utilization of any external recruitment or job placement agency is predicated upon its full compliance with our equal opportunity/affirmative action policies. ACS does not accept resumes from unsolicited recruiting firms. We pay no fees for unsolicited services.

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