Software Architect – AI-Enabled Enterprise Platform

Agile Defense

. Own the architecture, technical direction, and engineering standards for the Workforce AI-enabled enterprise platform and its microservices .

Posted 9/25/2026full-timeRemote • Virginia • United StatesSeniorLead💰 $150,000 - $190,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AzureJavaJavaScriptKotlinKubernetesMicroservicesNode.jsReactTypeScriptGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the architecture, technical direction, and engineering standards for the Workforce AI-enabled enterprise platform and its microservices
Define and document service boundaries, API contracts, data flows, integration patterns, and key technical decisions
Lead the design of AI-enabled architecture, including tool calling, system instructions, context management, prompt and control flow, and LLM service integration
Design secure enterprise integrations for identity, document workflows, collaboration tools, and external APIs
Manage technical debt, platform risk, and architectural drift
Lead technical execution through solution design, task breakdown, estimation, sequencing, and code review
Partner with the Product Manager to translate product goals and requirements into technical designs, milestones, and engineering work
Establish standards for code quality, automated testing, documentation, and definition of done
Mentor engineers through design reviews, pairing, code reviews, and technical feedback
Serve as the primary technical contact for engineering leadership, product, and customer stakeholders
Serve as Release Manager for the multi-service release train, coordinating release readiness, notes, and records
Represent the team in change control and release review processes, presenting changes, risks, and rollback plans
Own production posture, including rollback decisions, incident triage, root cause follow-through, and post-release verification
Collaborate with platform and DevOps engineers on CI/CD, Helm deployments to AKS, observability, autoscaling, and performance testing
Contribute directly to feature implementation, critical-path work, integration work, and production fixes
Build and maintain full-stack capabilities across modern web front ends and backend web APIs

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
10+ years of professional software engineering experience building and maintaining production applications
5+ 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
Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance
Strong hands-on coding ability in at least one object-oriented, strongly typed language such as Java, C#, TypeScript, Go, or Kotlin
Professional experience building modern web front-end applications and backend web APIs, services, and integration layers
Experience planning and delivering work for a team, including breaking complex requirements into milestones and tasks and managing dependencies
Experience with structured release practices for distributed or multi-service systems, including versioning, change control, release coordination, and rollback
Strong understanding of API design, authentication and authorization patterns, data modeling, error handling, testing, and maintainability
Practical understanding of secure software development, including access control, data protection, dependency hygiene, and production readiness
Working knowledge of AI-first application patterns, including tool calling, system instruction design, context management, retrieval grounding, and LLM integration
Ability to onboard into a large, complex codebase quickly and become the technical authority with limited handoff
Strong communication skills for explaining technical tradeoffs, risk, and status to engineers, product stakeholders, and executive leadership
Preferred: experience with TypeScript, Node.js, React, microservices, containers, Kubernetes, Helm, CI/CD, Azure Government/GCC, AI frameworks, release management, enterprise collaboration platforms, identity providers, sensitive data, DevSecOps, observability, autoscaling, production support, AI-enabled workflows, and SaaS, enterprise, government, or secure internal platforms

Benefits

Comp & perks

Remote work environment
Opportunity to support important national security and critical civilian missions
Collaborative, employee-focused culture
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities