Product Architect

The Amivero Team

Amivero’s team of IT professionals delivers digital services that elevate the federal government, whether national security or improved government services. Our human-centered, data-driven approach is focused on truly understanding the environment and the challenge, and reimagining with our customer how outcomes can be achieved.

Our team of technologists leverage modern, agile methods to design and develop equitable, accessible, and innovative data and software services that impact hundreds of millions of people.

As a member of the Amivero team you will use your empathy for a customer’s situation, your passion for service, your energy for solutioning, and your bias towards action to bring modernization to very important, mission-critical, and public service government IT systems.

Special Requirements

• Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to pass CBP background investigation, criteria include but are not limited to:

      - 3 year check for felony convictions

      - 1 year check for illegal drug use

      - 1 year check for misconduct such as theft or fraud

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science or related technical discipline.
• 7+ years experience related to the role.
• Professional experience operating within cross-functional teams and groups.
• Three (3) to Five (5) years’ experience in incremental software development projects such as the Agile Scrum approach

The Gist…

As our Product Architect supporting our BEAGLE (Border Enforcement Applications for Government Leading-Edge Information Technology) Agile Solution Factory (ASF) Team supporting Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Serve as Product Architect providing high-level architectural and software engineering expertise to managers and technical staff. 

What Your Day Might Include…

• As a technical lead for an agile team, you are responsible for all aspects of application architecture including user interface, APIs, microservices, databases and infrastructure
• Scale existing application to support additional DHS components and users
• Work on the integration of modernized, enterprise-wide authentication and authorization services
• Maintain 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
• Present and evangelize the solution to architecture guilds and management
• Work with business analysts and scrum master to create implementation/development plan for new features/applications/solutions by developing epics and stories
• Participate in Agile ceremonies by leading in all technical aspects, including leading the platform demos to the Product Owner and all applicable stakeholders
• Collaborate with the SecDevOps team to onboarding new applications to the cloud-based infrastructure
• Evangelize the developed solution to team members and work with team members to breakup stories into tasks and assist in completion of tasks in timely fashion
• Motivating developers, testers and creating a space where they can ask questions and voice their concerns.
• Keep up to date with industry trends and developments
• Delegating tasks and ensuring all daily, sprint and release goals are achieved
• Performs Architecture design and reviews as required, ensuring initiatives are aligned with future state
• Designing solutions in a Multi-Tenant Cloud Architecture that will support legacy .NET, Java, and COTS client/server applications
• Identifies 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.

You’ll Bring These Qualifications…

• Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to pass CBP background investigation, criteria include but are not limited to:

     - 3 year check for felony convictions

     - 1 year check for illegal drug use

     - 1 year check for misconduct such as theft or fraud

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science or related technical discipline.
• 7+ years experience related to the role.
• Professional experience operating within cross-functional teams and groups.
• Three (3) to Five (5) years’ experience in incremental software development projects such as the Agile Scrum approach
• Experience in Object oriented design and development (OODD), Domain Driven Design (DDD), Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Micro-Services and client/server architecture
• Experience in systems development, systems integration, application design with the ability to work with the team of Business Analysts and UI/UX developers on designing, envisioning, and transforming mockups into fully functional user interfaces using Angular or other JavaScript UI frameworks.
• Designing APIs and microservices using Spring Boot that integrate with the UI.
• Experience with a variety of technologies with emphasis on Java; Spring Boot, Spring framework, Hibernate, JPA (or other ORM), JAX-RS, JavaScript, XML, JSON, Web-Services (JAX-WS or JAX-RS), Eclipse, maven, Junit, and shell scripting.
• Experience with database design, SQL or PL/SQL Oracle, MySQL, or PostgreSQL Server.
• Experience with Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment tools such as Jenkins, GitLab, CloudBees, or Bamboo.
• Experience with containerization platforms such as Docker and Orchestration tools such as Kubernetes.
• Experience with Configuration Management and Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as
• CloudFormation
• Terraform
• Chef
• Ansible
• Puppet
• Experience in the agile management framework
• Good ability to anticipate issues and formulate remedial actions
• Excellent technical, diagnostic, and troubleshooting skills
• Excellent communication, motivational, and interpersonal skills
• Collaborate with Developers, Program Managers, Testers, and Production Support Engineers to implement innovative technical solutions via iterative approach reducing time to delivery
• Experience with Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment tools such as Jenkins, GitLab, CloudBees, or Bamboo
• Experience in systems development, systems integration, application design and/or legacy
• Must have experience in Angular, Java, Micro-Services & client/server architecture.
• Experience in the agile management framework
• Good ability to anticipate issues and formulate remedial actions
• Excellent technical, diagnostic, and troubleshooting skills
• Experience with implementing or migrating to a Cloud Service Provider (CSP) environment
• Excellent communication, motivational, and interpersonal skills
• Collaborate with Developers, Program Managers, Testers, and Production Support Engineers to implement innovative technical solutions via iterative approach reducing time to delivery

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Experience contributing to the development of program architecture and standard
• Experience with implementing or migrating to a Cloud Service Provider (CSP) environment 

EOE/M/F/VET/DISABLED

All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. Amivero complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.