Agile Developer 4 [D.26.0191]

Dover Networks LLC; Maryland; Hybrid; USD 234,000 - 256,000; Full time

Job summary

Dover Networks LLC seeks a Software Architect to own the design, delivery, and evolution of our AWS infrastructure and related application services. The role requires hands-on Java and Python development, with mentoring responsibilities for junior engineers and a focus on architectural best practices across the program.

Responsibilities include end-to-end architecture design, IaC, data and messaging layer, and strong emphasis on observability, reliability, and security.

Qualifications

• 12 years of relevant experience or a Master’s degree plus 10 years of relevant experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline or equivalent experience/education.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end, scalable, secure, cost-optimized architectures for AWS-based services.
• Develop production-grade Java (Spring Boot) and Python (Lambdas) services on AWS.
• Define and maintain IaC with reproducibility and version control.
• Architect and implement data and messaging solutions using DynamoDB, OpenSearch, SQS, SNS.
• Establish observability, monitoring, logging, and alerting with CloudWatch.

Skills

Java

Python

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Requires Top Secret/SCI with Full Scope Poly

Salary Range: $234k-$256k per year with an additional $59k-$64k in immediately vested company 401(k) contributions

Description:

Software Architect who will own the design, delivery, and evolution of our AWS infrastructure and associated application services. The ideal candidate blends deep AWS expertise (Lambda, OpenSearch, DynamoDB, SQS, CloudWatch, etc.) with hands on Java and Python development skills and can mentor a small team of junior engineers while driving architectural best practices across the program.

Responsibilities:

• Design & Blueprint – Create end to end, scalable, secure, and cost optimized architectures for event driven services, data pipelines, and search solutions on AWS.
• Hands On Development – Write production grade Java (Spring Boot) and Python (Lambdas) services that run as AWS Lambda functions or containerized workloads (Kubernetes).
• Infrastructure as Code – Define and maintain IaC, ensuring reproducibility and version control of the entire stack
• Data & Messaging Layer – Architect and implement solutions leveraging DynamoDB, OpenSearch, SQS, SNS for high throughput, low latency data access and streaming.
• Observability & Reliability – Implement comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting for CloudWatch and custom dashboards.
• CI/CD & DevSecOps – Be familiar with Gitlab pipeline, static code analysis, blue-green/canary deployments.
• Technical Leadership – Mentor 2 4 junior developers, conduct code reviews, run architecture deep dives, and champion best practice adoption (clean code, design patterns)
• Collaboration – Be able to communicate technical details / solutions as well as roadblocks to leadership and business stakeholders and provide robust solutions as needed.
• Documentation – Produce clear, up to date architectural diagrams, run books, and knowledge base articles to enable cross team consumption. Be able to prepare Standard Operating Procedure for frequently executed as well as on-call operations.

Basic Qualifications :

• Bachelors degree from an accredited college in a related discipline, or equivalent experience/combined education
• 12 years of relevant experience or a Master’s degree plus 10 years of relevant experience.

Desired skills (2 of the below):

• Java, Spring boot or python
• Microservice architectures
• CI/CD Tools: AWS tools, Maven, Gitlab & GitOps; Kubernetes, docker
• Database : NoSQL / MongoDB Query and Schema Design
• OAuth/OIDC Implementation experience
• Test frameworks and automation to include Playwright and Cucumber