Senior Software Architect

Fusion Innovation's recent growth has earned us a top spot in the Inc 5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies in America and in Washington Business Journal's Best Places to Work multiple years in a row. Our team members are passionate about their work and are empowered to contribute their unique skills and perspectives to our projects. Here at Fusion, we put people first. When you join us, youdon't just join a company, you join a family.

If you are ready to be part of afun and engaging team where your innovative ideas are heard, supported, andmake ever lasting mission impacts for our Nation's most sensitive programs, youhave come to the right place.

The Senior Software Architect will serve as the overall architecture authority for a large-scale, globally distributed mission platform deployed across multiple countries and managed remotely from the United States. The platform supports real-time transaction processing, distributed data management, external government and commercial integrations, peripheral and device orchestration, and centralized observability and administration. This role defines and governs the architecture of a modern Linux-based ecosystem of approximately 25 core microservices and a comparable set of supporting services while ensuring resilience, fieldability, security, and maintainability.

• Own and evolve the overall software architecture for a globally distributed microservices platform.
• Provide architectural leadership for approximately 25 core Java-based microservices and a comparable set of supporting and integration services.
• Define and govern service boundaries, contracts, data flows, event patterns, control-plane and backplane behavior, node roles, deployment topologies, observability, fault tolerance, and recovery patterns.
• Lead architecture for a technology stack that includes RHEL or Rocky Linux, Java JDK 21+, Vue.js 3, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Logstash, RabbitMQ, Consul, Nomad, and Vault.
• Architect deployment patterns for server, data, arbiter, workstation, and other user-facing node types across edge and centralized environments.
• Guide the design of operational services supporting transaction processing, rules and screening workflows, authorization, reference data, internationalization, health monitoring, and biometric or matching capabilities.
• Oversee integration architecture for external devices, sensors, government systems, commercial travel or identity systems, and customer-specific extensions.
• Ensure the platform remains remotely observable, diagnosable, supportable, and maintainable across all deployments.
• Collaborate with cloud, network, cybersecurity, data, field engineering, and operations teams to align architecture with real-world deployment constraints.
• Review software designs, guide technical-debt reduction and modernization, and sequence architectural roadmap priorities.
• Serve as the senior technical authority during design reviews, readiness reviews, major incident analysis, and complex problem resolution.