Lead Real-Time Data Streaming Architect

Booz Allen Hamilton; San Antonio (TX); On-site; USD 113,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking a Lead Software Architect to design and implement event-driven platforms and low-latency streaming systems for defense missions. You will drive end-to-end architecture from vision to production, collaborating with data scientists and full-stack engineers in an agile environment.

The role emphasizes scalable microservices, distributed messaging, observability, and security-by-design.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software architecture, design, and code review in production systems.
• 2+ years of experience building real-time services with WebSockets-driven data pipelines.
• Experience with REST APIs, WebSockets, and C#; strong Agile, Git, JavaScript, and RESTful API skills.

Responsibilities

• Define and own streaming architecture (pub/sub, fanout, backpressure) for high availability.
• Configure and scale distributed messaging (Kafka, RabbitMQ, SNS/SQS); work with WebSockets, gRPC, API gateways.
• Establish data contracts and schema evolution (Avro, Protobuf, JSON Schema) with registry and compatibility policies.
• Design for observability (OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, SLOs) and resiliency (idempotency, retries, circuit breakers).
• Lead cloud-native deployments on Docker and Kubernetes; guide AWS or Azure infrastructure choices.
• Set security-by-design standards (encryption, authN/authZ, secrets management) and mentor engineers.

Skills

Software architecture

Real-time services

REST APIs

WebSockets

C#

Agile

Git

JavaScript

CSS

Swagger/OpenAPI

AWS

Azure

Distributed systems

Docker

Kubernetes

Security by design

Travel

Secret clearance

Bachelor's degree

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Kafka

RabbitMQ

AWS SNS/SQS

WebSockets

gRPC

API gateways

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking a Lead Software Architect to design and implement event-driven platforms and low-latency streaming systems for defense missions. You will drive end-to-end architecture from vision to production, collaborating with data scientists and full-stack engineers in an agile environment.

The role emphasizes scalable microservices, distributed messaging, observability, and security-by-design.