Overview

Join Our Stellar Team at Castalia Systems!

Are you ready to skyrocket your career with us? We're on the lookout for ambitious individuals who are eager to make their mark in a diverse and thriving environment.

At Castalia Systems, we're not just another company – we're a certified Woman Owned Small Business (WOSB) and Small Disadvantage Business (SDB) committed to excellence since 2011. Join us in delivering top-tier solutions to the dynamic Defense and Intelligence sector.

As valued members of our team, we prioritize your well-being. Enjoy a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, 401k matching, generous PTO, paid holidays, professional training opportunities, and even pet insurance to ensure your furry friends are cared for too.

Responsibilities

Castalia Systems is seeking a Principal Solutions Architect in the Dulles, VA area. 

Our team is supporting a U.S. Government customer on a large mission critical development and sustainment program to design, build, deliver, and operate a network operations environment; including introducing new cyber capabilities to address emerging threats. Castalia is seeking a Principal Solutions Architect to support the design, development, and deployment of advanced cybersecurity capabilities.

A qualified candidate will perform the following duties and responsibilities, but are not limited to:

• Implements SAFe Agile best practices and the intersection of SAFe practices with data management and governance.
• Applies leading-edge principles, theories, and concepts, and contributes to the development of new principles and concepts.
• Works on unusually complex problems and provides highly innovative solutions.
• Operates with substantial latitude for unreviewed action or decision, and mentors or supervises employees in both firm and technical competencies.
• Works with product and engineering teams to understand the tradeoffs of potential solutions and how they fit into product roadmaps.
• Plans, develops, and implements large scale projects from conception to completion.
• Develops and architects lifecycle of projects working on different technologies and platforms.
• Translates business requirements/objectives into technical applications and solutions.
• Exercise creative, innovative, and critical thinking to troubleshoot systems and advance project initiatives.
• Deliver innovative, flexible, integrated solutions to meet customers changing business needs/requirements
• Provide consultation to product/engineering teams and stakeholders on business processes and existing system functionality that ensures technical and business aspects of solutions are aligned to the proposed value.
• Utilizing industry best practices for root cause analysis of Enterprise architecture, design, or configuration failures related to cybersecurity.

Qualifications

Security Clearance Requirement:

• Minimum active Secret clearance with the ability to obtain a TS/SCI clearance.
• Must be able to obtain DHS Suitability. 

Required Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science or a related discipline is required. [Twelve (12) years of experience (for a total of twenty-two (22) or more years) may be substituted for a degree.]
• Advanced degree (Master’s) is desired.

Required Qualifications: 

• 10 years of directly relevant software development experience.
• 6 years’ experience with Agile software development programs.
• Demonstrated experience with Lean-Agile principles, metrics, and technology and/or experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Lean Thinking, Lean Six Sigma.
• Understands complex data models.
• Strong background in AWS, database, networking, and software development solutions.
• Strong background in multi-tiered architecture using Microservices.
• Strong background in developing Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions.
• Strong ability to be creative, innovative, and possess advanced decision-making skills.
• Strong knowledge of technology trends and champions new ideas and product and process improvements.
• Experience with multiple Agile tools, including JIRA and Confluence.

Desired Qualifications: 

• Experience developing, delivering, upgrading, and maintaining a web-based operational system that provides a real-time malware analysis capability.
• Experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) or similar framework
• Experience with DevOps, DevSecOps, Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) concepts
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Git, Jenkins, Cloudbees, etc.
• Containerized applications/microservices architectures
• Knowledge of AWS and/or Azure cloud architectures and implementations
• Technical understanding of cybersecurity attack techniques
• Experience working on projects that implement systems into production.
• Experience in developing malware analysis systems
• Developing metrics to measure system performance using Grafana

Desired Certifications:

• Agile software development methodology certification (e.g. SCRUM Master) highly desired.
• AWS Associate Architect certification.

Castalia Systems is an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer and strives to comply with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination based on race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, or ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, marital status, HIV-positive status, as well as any other category protected by federal, state, or local laws. All such discrimination is unlawful, and all persons involved in the operations of the company are prohibited from engaging in this type of conduct.