Systems Architect

BCubed Engineering, an Auria company, is looking to hire a Systems Architect to join the team in our Tampa, FL office. This will be a hybrid role.

The program you will be supporting delivers interconnected software applications and platform for a globally distributed workforce. The system integrates edge, cloud, and TAK-based data for users at multiple global sites, including disconnected and low‑bandwidth environments, to deliver Common Data Layer Systems, Common Operating Picture (COP) and Command and Control (C2) capabilities to mission commanders.

• Lead technical integration across the Agile Release Train (ART) vendor and product teams.
• Establish interface and schema-first contracts (API, event, and schema standards), interface control documents (ICDs), deployment contracts, and integration testing.
• Track integration issues through resolution, and elevate unresolved risks, conflicts, and decision points to the Solution Train Architect or Chief Engineer with clear options, impacts, and a recommended decision.
• Facilitate execution of the vision and capability delivery priorities set by the Government Program Manager, Chief Engineer, and Solution Train Architect.
• Gather and reconcile requirements across vendor teams.
• Develop enough understanding of each application to represent its workflows, dependencies, interfaces, and constraints.
• Proactively plan for future capabilities and integrations.
• Define and govern how independently developed applications and services interoperate across edge, cloud, and TAK-based environments, including disconnected and low‑bandwidth operations.
• Research, evaluate, and guide technology‑selection decisions against the full set of program requirements.
• Meet current mission needs while establishing a scalable, extensible foundation.
• Reduce avoidable rework, technical debt, and integration risk through early architectural analysis and deliberate tradeoffs.
• Define, maintain, and communicate the architectural runway for near‑ and long‑term ART objectives.
• Partner with Product Management, Product Owners, Release Train Engineers, and product teams to turn mission priorities, technology‑lifecycle needs, cross‑team dependencies, technical debt, and nonfunctional requirements into sequenced enabler epics and features.
• Plan early enough to enable incremental delivery and keep platform, integration, security, performance, or scalability constraints from delaying product teams.
• Review team‑level technical decisions against enterprise architecture and program objectives, and challenge them when warranted (for example, shared versus dedicated services, isolation boundaries, and coupling).
• Partner with the Platform Architect and Agile Team Leads to set platform requirements and review designs against mission, security, performance, and operational needs.
• Trace mission and user workflows end to end through applications, integrations, infrastructure, and data flows to find where capabilities may fall short.
• Recommend fixes at the right layer. Build working knowledge of Special Operations Forces (SOF) mission threads and end‑user workflows, including by executing workflows hands‑on, and turn what you learn into cross‑team architectural recommendations.
• Contribute to PI Planning, dependency management, and release‑readiness planning.
• Communicate current and future architecture through diagrams and MBSE models, at a high level for leadership and in detail for engineering teams.
• Work on‑site with the government customer and build trust with government stakeholders and vendor teams.

• Mission‑Driven Professional:
  Collaborative contributor motivated by the opportunity to develop cutting‑edge solutions that protect and serve both the nation and the…