Lead Software Engineer

At Connect Centric, we are more than just consultants—we are partners committed to our clients' success. We take a hands-on approach, working closely with our clients to transform strategies into measurable, real-world outcomes. As a strategy execution team, we take full ownership of every project from start to finish, ensuring that our clients see tangible results, not just ideas. Our work is grounded in heart, empathy, and accountability, and we recognize that each client is unique. Together, we achieve the goals that matter most by tailoring our approach to meet the specific needs of every organization we partner with.

Job Summary:

We are supporting our client, a large non-profit organization based in Washington, DC, in their search for an experienced Software Architect/Senior Software Engineer. This is a direct hire position, ideal for candidates interested in a hybrid work arrangement located in either Oxford, UK, or Washington, DC.

In this role, you will lead the design and implementation of enterprise integration, orchestration, and event-driven architecture solutions within a robust cloud infrastructure. We are looking for expertise in cloud architecture (particularly AWS), API design and development, AsyncAPI and OpenAPI specifications, and experience with event-driven architectures and frameworks. You will be responsible for building scalable, efficient solutions that enable seamless system communication, automate workflows, and support event-based integrations. Your work will play a crucial role in enhancing infrastructure agility and reliability, advancing our client’s mission to foster positive, global impact.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and Implement Enterprise Integration Solutions: Architect integration frameworks that connect disparate systems, ensuring smooth and reliable flow between applications and services.
• Design and Implement Enterprise Orchestration Solutions: Develop and manage enterprise orchestration tools that automate and coordinate workflows, improving efficiency across platforms.
• Event-driven Architecture: Architect and implement event-driven systems, ensuring real-time communication, scalability, and reliability across microservices and distributed systems.
• API Design and Development: Lead the design, implementation, and management of robust APIs to support various business and operational needs, ensuring consistency and scalability.
• AsyncAPI and OpenAPI: Design and develop APIs following AsyncAPI and OpenAPI specifications to ensure seamless communication and integration between services.
• Collaborate with DevOps teams to define project requirements, support continuous integration/delivery.
• Manage environments for dev, test, and production, ensuring configuration management best practices throughout the software lifecycle.
• Define and manage CI/CD pipelines with GitHub and containerization strategies, optimizing for performance.
• Collaborate with DevOps architect to build operation solution and optimize Cloud infrastructure.
• Act as a technical liaison with stakeholders and present solutions to leadership.

Qualifications

Bachelors or better in Computer Science or related field.

• Certifications in AWS or cloud architecture.
• Knowledge of publisher IT environments.

Preferred Licenses & Certifications (One or More a Plus)

• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
• AWS Certified Developer – Associate
• AWS Certified Data Analytics – Specialty
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Required Experience

• 10 years: Expertise in building enterprise-level integration solution.
• 10 years: Expertise in designing, developing, and managing APIs, including AsyncAPIs, RESTful APIs, SOAP APIs, GraphQL, and webhooks for integration purposes.
• 5-10 years: Expertise in designing and implementing enterprise-level integration and orchestration solution in AWS using the services like EventBridge, Lambda, SNS/SQS, API Gateway, Transfer Family, AppFlow, Glue, Step Function, S3, Kinesis, MQ, DynamoDB Streams.
• 5 years: Expertise in designing and implementing data integration workflows using AWS services such as AWS Glue, Amazon S3, AWS Lambda, and Amazon Kinesis for both batch and real-time processing, along with monitoring and troubleshooting data pipelines using AWS CloudWatch and AWS X-Ray.
• 5 years: Experience in building event-driven solutions, preferably in AWS using the services like SNS, SQS, EventBridge, and Lambda, leveraging decoupled, scalable integrations.
• 10 years: Expertise in designing and setting up CI/CD pipelines with Github, AWS CodePipeline, ArgoCD or similar.
• 10 years: Experience in designing and implementing monitoring and observability for system logging analysis, performance tracking, issues identifying and alerting, etc.
• 2 years: Experience in managing Infrastructure as Code using AWS CloudFormation or Terraform for automating the deployment and management of resources and services.
• 5 years: Experience in designing and implementing microservices architectures.
• 10 years: Strong experience in architecting and building general software solutions and mastery in Java and/or Python programming language and Javascript is a plus.
• 2 years: Strong understanding of AWS IAM roles, policies, and permissions for controlling access to integration and orchestration services securely.
• 10 years: Experience in Agile methodologies (SCRUM or Kanban) with an emphasis on driving iterative development and continuous delivery of integration solutions.
• 2 years: Ability to manage third-party integrations, including working with external vendors and partners to ensure successful data and system integration.
• 5 years: Strong collaboration with business analysts, QA, DevOps, product managers, and other engineering teams to ensure cohesive integration strategies across different systems.

US Citizenship required for this Position: No
Performance Location: Oxford, UK or Washington, DC
Relocation Assistance: No
Clearance Type: None
Travel Required: No
Salary: Dependent on Experience $150k - $190k #J-18808-Ljbffr