Lead Software Solutions Architect - TS​/SCI

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Parsons is seeking an exceptionally talented Lead Software Solutions Architect to join our team. In this role, you will serve as a senior technical leader responsible for designing and delivering secure, data-intensive software solutions for complex defense and intelligence missions.

You will work closely with the Chief Engineer, Product Owners, software engineers, data engineers, analysts, and government stakeholders to translate mission needs into scalable architectures, technical designs, and deployable capabilities.

The ideal candidate is a hands-on software architect with deep experience in distributed systems, real-time data integration, tactical-edge environments, and multi-domain defense applications.

• Define Software Solutions:
  Design end-to-end architectures for secure, distributed, event-driven, and data-intensive mission applications.
• Lead Technical Design:
  Develop software architecture views, interface specifications, data models, technical designs, and implementation approaches.
• Integrate Mission Systems:
  Architect integrations among applications, sensors, intelligence platforms, simulation environments, and operational systems using APIs, messaging, streaming, and shared data services.
• Guide Product Delivery:
  Act as the Systems Engineering Product Owner Analyst within a SAFe environment, helping translate mission objectives into capabilities, features, technical enablers, and user stories.
• Provide Technical Leadership:
  Advise the Chief Engineer, program leadership, Product Owners, and business partners on software design decisions, technology selection, system evolution, and mission alignment.
• Support Agile Execution:
  Participate in PI planning, backlog refinement, architecture reviews, demonstrations, retrospectives, and technical interchange meetings.
• Solve Mission-Critical Challenges:
  Design for reliability, scalability, cybersecurity, interoperability, and operation in disconnected, intermittent, and limited-bandwidth environments.
• Improve Engineering Practices:
  Promote effective software development, Dev Sec Ops , automation, deployment, observability, and laboratory integration practices.
• Represent the Program:
  Present technical approaches and software solutions during customer engagements, technical reviews, stakeholder meetings, and industry events.

• Must be a U.S. Citizen.
• Must possess an active TS/SCI clearance.

• Bachelor’s degree and 15+ years of experience in software engineering, software architecture, solution architecture, or related technical leadership roles. Additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Demonstrated expertise designing and delivering software solutions for multi-domain defense, intelligence, aerospace, or other mission-critical environments.
• Experience defining architectures for distributed systems, microservices, event-driven applications, real-time data pipelines, or tactical-edge platforms.
• Hands‑on experience with military and intelligence data standards and formats, including Cursor on Target, FMV/KLV, and JSON.
• Strong experience with Apache Kafka, including topics, producers and consumers, security configuration, SASL/SCRAM, and TLS.
• Experience with the TAK ecosystem, including TAK Server, WebTAK, or ATAK.
• Experience integrating…