Avum is seeking a results-driven application architect to lead our application development efforts. You will be consulting with senior business managers and customers on application requirements, incorporating desired functionalities into application development plans, and supervising application development stages. The ideal candidate should exhibit extensive application development knowledge and experience in evaluating business needs.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Ensuring that software solutions meet performance requirements, provide engaging and intuitive user experiences.
• Developing solutions by studying information needs, investigating problem areas, and following the software development lifecycle.
• Collaborating with stakeholders, including business analysts, project managers, and end-users, to understand business objectives and translate those goals into technical specifications that ensure scalability, performance, and security.
• Building technical designs for software applications that incorporate architecture patterns, frameworks, data models, application components, and system integrations.
• Defining the architecture strategy and development roadmap to align with technology strategy.
• Recommending technologies and tools that align with the application’s requirements, based on factors such as performance, scalability, and maintainability.
• Integrating security measures into the application architecture, ensuring compliance with industry standards and best practices.
• Conducting security assessments and recommends improvements to enhance cybersecurity.
• Translating user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) specifications into coding implementation.
• Testing applications to ensure optimal performance and evaluates new technologies to assess their applicability to specific projects.
• Integrating applications to run smoothly with back-end tools, such as cloud storage or application program interfaces (APIs).
• Creating and maintains comprehensive documentation for the application architecture, including design documents, diagrams, and technical specifications.
• Defining coding standards, best practices, and guidelines to ensure consistency of the application codebase.
• Reviewing code and architectural decisions to ensure compliance with established standards.
• Identifying and addressing performance bottlenecks in the application architecture.
• Engaging in sector-specific professional development opportunities to identify opportunities for continuous improvement in application architecture.

What You Will Need:

• US Citizenship with the ability to obtain and maintain a US Government Clearance.
• 5+ years of experience in software development, with some experience in application architecture roles.
• Experience in software or solution architecture disciplines.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Familiarity with the Department of Defense (DoD) Procure-to-Pay processes.

It's A Plus If You Have This:

• Experience with large-scale enterprise applications preferred.

What’s In It For You

• Being part of a remote-first environment that rewards dedication and innovation.
• Receiving competitive compensation and benefits package that includes bonuses and 401K with 6% matching that vest immediately.
• Joining a mission-driven technically forward team.

Location

The candidate will be required to interact and coordinate with external project team members and other Avum employees remotely, supporting core Eastern Standard Time (EST) hours. As a remote employee, the candidate will not have a permanent office or desk space but may be required to attend in-person meetings. This may require travel to government sites located in Washington, D.C., and the Avum office located in Agoura Hills, California. Our priority is acquiring the most qualified candidate to satisfactorily perform the required tasks, including team collaboration, regardless of the candidate’s geographical location.

NOTE: This fully remote role requires the candidate to participate in meetings virtually using tools like Microsoft Teams. Online availability during the core Eastern Standard Time (EST) hours, Monday through Friday, will be required.

About Avum

Avum, Inc. is a certified Small Disadvantaged Business who provides advanced software, database, and business intelligence systems to the DoD/Military, Intelligence Community, and Federal, State, Local and Commercial clients since 1991. We manage technical programs and projects and provide strategic guidance to support our customer's system engineering efforts. We provide sustainment in mission-critical and secure environments. We support information assurance activities and accreditation for the systems we deploy. Our engineers conduct rapid prototyping and Agile customer-focused iterations to produce complex applications, predictive analytic data environments, and NIST SP 800-53 compliant system architecture deployed within Navy and DoD networks. We have subject matter experts in multiple domains and technical expertise across all core technology stacks. We specialize in application development, large-scale database design, data engineering, and data visualization. Through results-driven, agile collaboration, the company continually researches and deploys secure solutions that exceed customer expectations in meeting or beating customer-allocated budgets and schedules. We aspire to the highest standards of ethical behavior and professional integrity in providing our customers with service that consistently earns us the highest possible performance ratings.

Avum, Inc. does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits.