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Workforce is built as a set of containerized microservices deployed to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) in Azure Government Community Cloud (GCC), combining modern web application development, API-driven services, AI-assisted capabilities, and secure deployment practices.\nThe Software Architect is the senior technical owner of the platform. This person sets architectural direction, leads the engineering team’s technical execution, serves as Release Manager for the platform’s multi-service release train, and partners with the Product Manager to turn roadmap priorities into executable plans. This is a hands-on role: the Software Architect is expected to stay close to the code, regularly designing, implementing, reviewing, and debugging software alongside the team.\nJOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES\nArchitecture and Technical Direction\nOwn the architecture, technical direction, and engineering standards for the Workforce platform and its microservices.\nDefine and document service boundaries, API contracts, data flows, integration patterns, and key technical decisions, including the tradeoffs behind them.\nLead the design of the platform’s AI-enabled architecture, including tool calling, system instructions, context management, prompt and control flow design, and integration with LLM-based services.\nDesign secure enterprise integrations, including identity, document workflows, collaboration tools, and external platform APIs.\nIdentify and manage technical debt, platform risk, and architectural drift, making pragmatic decisions about when to refactor and when to ship.\nTechnical Leadership and Delivery\nLead technical execution for the Workforce engineering team, including solution design, task breakdown, estimation, sequencing, and code review.\nPartner with the Product Manager to translate product goals, user workflows, and requirements into technical designs, milestones, and well-scoped engineering work.\nEstablish and uphold standards for code quality, automated testing, documentation, and definition of done.\nMentor engineers through design reviews, pairing, code reviews, and direct technical feedback.\nServe as the primary technical point of contact for engineering leadership, product, and customer stakeholders on status, risk, and technical tradeoffs.\nRelease Management and Operations\nServe as Release Manager for the platform’s multi-service release train, coordinating release readiness, release notes, and release records.\nRepresent the team in change control and release review processes, presenting changes, risk, and rollback plans for approval.\nOwn production posture for the platform, including rollback decisions, incident triage, root cause follow-through, and post-release verification.\nCollaborate with platform and DevOps engineers on CI/CD pipelines, Helm-based deployments to AKS, observability, autoscaling, and performance testing.\nHands-On Engineering\nContribute directly to the codebase, including feature implementation, critical-path work, integration work, and production fixes.\nBuild and maintain full stack capabilities across modern web front ends and backend web APIs.\nQUALIFICATIONS\nRequired Certifications\nNone required.\nEducation, Background, and Years of Experience\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.\n10+ years of professional software engineering experience building and maintaining production applications.\n5+ years designing and owning production application architecture, including leading technical execution for an engineering team as a software architect, technical lead, or senior technical owner.\nAbility to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance.\nADDITIONAL SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS\nRequired Skills\nStrong hands-on coding ability in at least one object-oriented, strongly typed language such as Java, C#, TypeScript, Go, or Kotlin.\nProfessional experience building both modern web front-end applications and backend web APIs, services, and integration layers.\nDemonstrated ownership of production application architecture across front-end, backend, data, and integration concerns.\nExperience planning and delivering work for a team, including breaking complex requirements into milestones and tasks and managing dependencies.\nExperience with structured release practices for distributed or multi-service systems, including versioning, change control, release coordination, and rollback.\nStrong understanding of API design, authentication and authorization patterns, data modeling, error handling, testing, and maintainability.\nPractical understanding of secure software development, including access control, data protection, dependency hygiene, and production readiness.\nWorking knowledge of AI-first application patterns: tool calling, system instruction design, context management and retrieval grounding, and integrating LLM capabilities into a broader application architecture.\nAbility to onboard into a large, complex codebase quickly and become the technical authority with limited handoff.\nStrong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical tradeoffs, risk, and status to engineers, product stakeholders, and executive leadership.\nPreferred Skills\nExperience with TypeScript, Node.js, and React.\nExperience with microservices, containerized applications, Kubernetes (AKS preferred), Helm, and CI/CD pipelines.\nExperience delivering in Azure Government, Azure GCC, or other compliance-constrained cloud environments.\nExperience with 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