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About the Organization
Now is a great time to join Redhorse Corporation. We are a solution-driven company delivering data insights and technology solutions to customers with missions critical to U.S. national interests. We're looking for thoughtful, skilled professionals who thrive as trusted partners building technology-agnostic solutions and want to apply their talents supporting customers with difficult and important mission sets.
About the Role
Redhorse transforms the way government uses data and technology. To support this mission, we are seeking a visionary IT Engineer / Systems Architect to provide critical technical leadership for a mission-essential application development program supporting a key Sponsor. This is a highly impactful role where you will define the technical strategy, architecture, and engineering practices that guide a multi-disciplinary team.
You will be instrumental in ensuring the modernization of applications through the evaluation of strategic enterprise solutions, leading cloud migration (AWS) efforts, and guaranteeing strict compliance with the Sponsor's architectural, security (RMF), and performance SLAs. Your expertise will directly ensure the performance, reliability, and security of applications critical to the Sponsor's cyber operations mission.
Key Responsibilities
- Architectural Design & Guidance:
- Develop architectural guidance for application developers, defining target platforms, interface designs, development patterns/styles, and the languages/tools to be used to implement system design.
- Analyze, define, and document requirements for data, workflow, logical processes, hardware/OS environments, network connectivity, and other system interfaces.
- Lead development of system prototypes to demonstrate the application of design principles.
- Provide complete assessments of technical characteristics of proposals and alternatives in application design and review requests for changes or upgrades.
- Compliance, Security, and Risk Management:
- Comply with the Sponsor's Risk Management (i.e., cyber security) Framework to ensure the program addresses and mitigates vulnerabilities throughout the project lifecycle.
- Ensure all developed applications operate in compliance with Sponsor architectural processes and Authorization and Accreditation (A&A) processes.
- Fully describe and document any proposed updates to application architectures and interfaces, obtaining approval via Sponsor-approved processes prior to implementation.
- Provide technical expertise and support to the Sponsor in understanding requirements for auditing, ATO, etc.
- Cloud, Data, and System Strategy:
- Design the technical architecture to support the migration of applications to the cloud environment, or the establishment of new cloud-native applications.
- Provide database architectural and design capabilities, estimating software development costs and schedules.
- Conduct capacity planning for growth, monitor system costs, and identify solutions to reduce them.
- Provide technical expertise in systems architecture; assess feasibility of system plans; establish priorities; and develop and implement plans that adhere to established strategic business objectives.
Required Skills & Experience
- 8+ years of relevant IT Engineering and Systems Architecture experience
- Clearance: Active TS/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph
- Technical Stack: Demonstrated experience with Linux (Bash), Java, Spring Boot, MongoDB, AWS Services, User-driven web applications, and Elasticsearch.
- Methodology & Design: Demonstrated experience in the application of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Agile Development Methods.
- Cloud and Data Leadership: Demonstrated experience designing and developing applications hosted on AWS and leveraging a diverse set of AWS services.
- System Design: Demonstrated experience, within the Agency's cyber operations organizations, performing systems design, development, and interconnectivity.
- Requirements to Design: Demonstrated experience translating user requirements into end-to-end design for applications/databases that may involve multiple interfaces to other systems.
- Forward Planning: Demonstrated experience in developing and implementing a system data model, predicting future needs of the system, and creating a plan to adjust to changes in networks, cloud services, and security requirements.
- Impact Analysis: Demonstrated experience evaluating the impact and level-of-effort of requirements on the current and future system.
- Team Collaboration: Demonstrated experience working on multi-disciplinary application development teams.
- Agile Tooling: Demonstrated experience using JIRA.
Desired Experience
- Demonstrated experience with Sponsor's cyber operations mission applications.
- Demonstrated experience with the following technologies: ArangoDB.
- Successful development and deployment of a least one application that has been through Sponsor's Authorization and Accreditation (A&A) process.
- Demonstrated experience architecting a graph database that included adapting an existing system data model.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled
Accommodations:
If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to access job openings or apply for a job on this site as a result of your disability. You can request reasonable accommodations by contacting Talent Acquisition at Talent-Acquisition@redhorsecorp.com
Redhorse Corporation shall, in its discretion, modify or adjust the position to meet Redhorse's changing needs.
This job description is not a contract and may be adjusted as deemed appropriate in Redhorse's sole discretion.
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Redhorse Corporation
Oct 10, 2025