Product Architect

C Mack Solutions LLC; Ashburn (VA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Retirement plan

Paid time off

Job summary

C. Mack Solutions LLC is seeking a Product Architect to lead architecture for a mission-critical federal program. You will define scalable solutions, drive cloud-based design, and lead Agile ceremonies with cross-functional teams.

Inline with this role, you will mentor developers, review code, and ensure secure, high-quality delivery while aligning with enterprise standards.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software development with architecture experience.
• Bachelor's degree in CS/SE or related field.
• Strong knowledge of AWS/GCP and cloud-native design.
• Hands-on with Java/Spring, React, PostgreSQL, and modern web tech.
• Experience in microservices, DevOps and secure coding practices.

Responsibilities

• Define and implement scalable product architecture.
• Lead Agile ceremonies and platform demos to stakeholders.
• Mentor developers, review PRs, and remove blockers.
• Collaborate with SecDevOps to migrate to cloud.
• Design multi-tenant cloud solutions with proven patterns.

Skills

Leadership

Agile experience

Cross-functional teamwork

Problem solving

Mentoring

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/SE

Tools

AWS

Google Cloud

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins

GitLab

PostgreSQL

React

Java (Spring)

Kendo UI

Harness

Job description

Description

C. Mack Solutions is looking for a Product Architect with agile methodology experience to join our team and support a complex program to provide Agile development and operations and maintenance for critical systems on a mission-critical program for the Federal Government business needs.

As a Product Architect, here's what you'll be:

• Responsible for defining and implementing product architecture, ensuring scalability, performance and reliability
• Design and implement novel approaches to fulfil business needs, including new tools, development strategies, and testing strategies, and evangelise solutions with multiple peers
• Maintain sound understanding of enterprise and programme level architecture
• Liaison with business analysts to understand business needs and develop solutions that meet business needs, technical feasibility and comply with enterprise and programme level architecture and standards
• 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 and onboard new applications to the cloud-based infrastructure
• Evangelise the developed solution to team members and work with team members to slice and dice stories into tasks and support efficient task execution to meet project deadlines
• Motivating developers, testers and creating a space where they can ask questions and voice their concerns
• Provide technical guidance and leadership to cross‑functional teams through mentoring, coaching, and peer reviews
• Keep up to date with industry trends and developments
• Designing solutions in a Multi‑Tenant Cloud Architecture
• Identifies risks, opportunities, compliance issues or other architectural concerns
• Active participation in Agile ceremonies, artifact creation, sprint testing, regression testing, demonstrations and retrospectives and solution releases
• Review Cybersecurity Assessments and Static Code Analysis of developed software to define remediation's and improve software quality
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, including architecture diagrams and design documents
• Taking high‑level business requirements and mapping them to tasks for developers and testers
• Designing technical solutions using established standards and breaking them down into units of work for your team
• Working with business analysts to ensure coverage of requirements
• Creating a roadmap to production for your product in a phased approach, considering legacy system decommissioning
• Overseeing project construction, reviewing pull requests, ensuring test coverage, maintaining high quality code, mentoring developers, removing blockers, and presenting your team’s product to various stakeholders.
• Systems design, systems development, systems integration, application design
• Experience migrating legacy applications to microservices based architecture deployed to the cloud
• Anticipating issues and formulating remedial actions
• Collaborating with Developers, Program Managers, Testers, UI/UX, and Production Support Engineers to implement innovative technical solutions via iterative approach reducing time to delivery

Requirements

You must live within the DC, MD, VA area.

U.S. Citizenship is required. Candidate must have an Active CBP Public Trust clearance.

• 10+ years' overall experience in software development, including hands‑on experience with programming, software design patterns, and architecture as a software architect, tech lead, or a senior developer
• A bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field
• Expertise in Typescript, Postgres SQL, Postgres Streams, Gemini AI, webRTC, and Geospatial software, must have both design and hands‑on experience with these technologies
• Expertise in design patterns, object‑oriented programming (OOP), and other software design methodologies to create modular, scalable, and maintainable systems
• Professional experience operating within cross‑functional teams and groups
• Knowledge of different software development processes, such as Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, or DevOps, and their implications on architectural decisions
• Expertise in various architectural styles, such as client‑server, microservices, event‑driven, or layered architectures, and their trade‑offs
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud) and understanding of distributed system concepts, including scalability, fault tolerance, and data consistency
• Experience in RESTful APIs and experience designing, implementing, and integrating APIs in a secure and efficient manner.
• Experience with relational (e.g., Postgres) databases, data modelling, and data storage best practices
• Skills in analysing and optimising software performance, including profiling, benchmarking, and code optimisation techniques
• Experience in baseline management and best practices for merges and version control
• Understanding of common software security vulnerabilities and strategies to mitigate them, such as input validation, secure coding practices, and encryption
• Hands‑on development with Amazon AWS, Java (Spring/spring boot), React, PostgreSQL, JavaScript, browser technologies such as HTML, HTTP and CSS and JavaScript framework such as Kendo UI.
• Experience with DevOps practices, including continuous integration and continuous development and deployment tools such as Harness, Jenkins and GitLab
• Strong experience with containerisation technologies (Docker) and orchestration Tools (Kubernetes)
• Able to work a hybrid schedule with an on‑site requirement of 1‑2 days a week in Ashburn, VA

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Having served in a technical lead role for one or more product teams.
• Optional but beneficial certifications include AWS Certified Solutions Architect or Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect
• Having contributed to development of enterprise architecture and standards and ability to enforce these standards
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to succinctly present complex subject matter specifically translating technology problems/solutions to business partners
• Ability and desire to stay current with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in software architecture
• Excellent technical, diagnostic, and troubleshooting skills
• Strong problem‑solving skills, with the ability to analyse complex issues and develop creative solutions

Work Location:

This position is limited to candidates residing in U.S. states where the company is currently registered to employ team members.

Salary Range:

$150,000 – $175,000 annually

This position may be filled at the SME level based on the selected candidate’s qualifications and experience. Final compensation will be determined based on level alignment, experience, education, and internal equity.

Benefits:

In addition to base compensation, this position is eligible for company‑sponsored benefits, which may include medical, dental, and vision insurance, retirement savings plans, paid time off, and other supplemental programs.