Enlighten, an Alion company is looking for a hands-on experienced Software Architect / Engineer / Manager. Will lead/manage a team to design, develop and implement complicated and difficult software capabilities for computer based systems. Candidate must have a strong working knowledge and experience developing cloud software based capabilities. Will need to be able to manage a talented technical team and be responsible for hands-on coding as well. Candidate should have an inquisitive nature, responsiveness, and excellent testing skills. Must also possess strong troubleshooting skills and the ability to work under pressure with multiple deadlines. Will be asked to interface with customers and be the main technical point of contact for projects supported. Will work in a fast paced, small business environment with our talented team. Responsibilities include working with the development team, infrastructure teams, architecture teams and governance groups to architect the best solution for the projects. Design, model and prototype current and future states of the data using AWS compatible solutions. Help the infrastructure team work out the process and propose new processes to best manage the cloud environment. Analyze the needs and requirements of existing and proposed systems, and develop technical, structural, and organizational specifications. Create standards and/or do modeling to monitor and enhance capacity and performance. Security Clearance: A current Secret level US Government clearance is required and therefore all candidates must be a US Citizen. Could be processed for a higher-level clearance and will consider candidates with a higher level clearance for this role. Required Skills: Bachelor's degree in technical discipline (ie computer science, engineering, mathematics, etc.) or equivalent experience. Educational requirements may be adjusted for applicable work experience. Work experience may be adjusted for highly specialized knowledge or uniquely applicable experience. Must have at least 16 years of experience in Software Engineering Must have prior experience managing or leading a team of developers. Experience working with AWS Cloud at an architect level with the solution focused on data. Demonstrated ability to document solutions, present those solutions to both internal and external customers and help with the implementations. Will need to be able to help with the modeling and coding of the database solutions. Experience in streaming and/or batch analytics (eg Kafka, Spark, Flink, Storm, MapReduce, Hadoop) Experience in distributed databases, NoSQL databases, full text-search engines (eg Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Solr) Experience in designing enterprise APIs Experience in RESTful web services Experience in Microservices architecture Experience in Object Oriented Programming (OOP) paradigms Experience in cloud based technologies (AWS, Azure) Experience in Modern Java Frameworks and Libraries (eg Spring, Guava) Experience with the Linux operating system Experience with configuration management tools (eg Git, Nexus, Maven) Experience with the agile software lifecycle Desired Skills: Scripting experience is a huge plus. *CJ Security Clearance: Secret