About Sandia:
Sandia National Laboratories is the nation's premier science and engineering lab for national security and technology innovation, with teams of specialists focused on cutting-edge work in a broad array of areas. Some of the main reasons we love our jobs:
- Challenging work with amazing impact that contributes to security, peace, and freedom worldwide
- Extraordinary co-workers
- Some of the best tools, equipment, and research facilities in the world
- Career advancement and enrichment opportunities
- Flexible work arrangements for many positions include 9/80 (work 80 hours every two weeks, with every other Friday off) and 4/10 (work 4 ten-hour days each week) compressed workweeks, part-time work, and telecommuting (a mix of onsite work and working from home)
- Generous vacation, strong medical and other benefits, competitive 401k, learning opportunities, relocation assistance and amenities aimed at creating a solid work/life balance*
World-changing technologies. Life-changing careers. Learn more about Sandia at: http://www.sandia.gov
*These benefits vary by job classification.
What Your Job Will Be Like:
Are you looking for challenging and impactful work that contributes to security, peace, and freedom worldwide?
If so, Sandia National Laboratories' Science and Information Engineering System's group is seeking a motivated Software Solution Architect to join the Design and Development Solutions team in analyzing, designing, developing, and deploying innovative software solutions to meet our mission customers' needs.
We are seeking an experienced Solution Architect to help design, integrate, and support complex mission-enabling information systems. In this role, you will facilitate technical planning and problem-solving; troubleshoot issues across presentation, application, and data layers; and coordinate with software, database, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and stakeholder teams to implement and support practical software solutions. You will evaluate architecture options, document system components and interfaces; communicate risks and recommendations to technical and non-technical audiences; and help guide decisions involving web services, databases, containerized environments, security vulnerabilities, and system dependencies. This position requires strong technical judgment, collaborative leadership, and the ability to translate complex needs into actionable architecture and implementation plans.
On any given day, you may be called on to:
- Support applications and integrations involving Java, RESTful APIs, SOAP services, and other service-based architectures.
- Facilitate team planning, brainstorming, and problem-solving sessions to develop actionable technical plans.
- Troubleshoot complex issues across presentation, application, and data layers in a 3-tier infrastructure.
- Coordinate with software, database, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and other subject matter experts to resolve technical issues.
- Analyze system behavior, dependencies, logs, data flows, and operational impacts to support root-cause analysis.
- Develop and communicate practical recommendations for resolving application, service, database, or deployment environment issues.
- Participate in cross-team collaboration meetings with technical staff, stakeholders, and partner organizations across the NSE complex.
- Design, evaluate, and document system or software architecture components, interfaces, dependencies, and design decisions.
- Support containerized application deployments using platforms such as OpenShift, Kubernetes, or similar technologies.
- Identify, assess, communicate, and support remediation of cybersecurity vulnerabilities in application and deployment environments.
- Translate complex technical findings into clear explanations for both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Identify risks, tradeoffs, options, and implementation considerations to support informed technical decision-making.
*The selected applicant can work a combination of onsite and offsite work. The selected applicant must live within a reasonable distance for commuting to the assigned work location when necessary.
Salary Range:
$117,500 - $235,700
*Salary range is estimated, and actual salary will be determined after consideration of the selected candidate's experience and qualifications, and application of any approved geographic salary differential.
Qualifications We Require:
- Bachelor's degree in relevant discipline plus five or more years of experience, or equivalent.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a DOE Q clearance.
Qualifications We Desire:
- Proficiency developing, maintaining, integrating, and troubleshooting Java-based applications in agile team environments.
- Experience designing, developing, consuming, or supporting RESTful APIs, SOAP services, or similar service-based architectures.
- Experience designing, querying, integrating with, and supporting relational databases and SQL-based data systems.
- Experience developing, deploying, or supporting containerized applications using OpenShift, Kubernetes, or similar platforms.
- Working knowledge of software security principles, vulnerability assessment, remediation, and risk communication.
- Experience modeling system or software architectures, including components, interfaces, dependencies, data flows, and design decisions.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to diagnose complex technical issues and identify root causes.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills for both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate across disciplines, incorporate diverse perspectives, and contribute to shared team outcomes.
- Experience with data virtualization platforms such as Denodo Virtual DataPort or comparable integration technologies.
- Architecture certification such as TOGAF, DoDAF, Zachman, C4, UML/SysML, or another relevant credential.
- Experience working with NoSQL database technologies, such as document, key-value, or comparable data stores.
- Ten or more years of relevant professional experience across software development, databases, web services, containers, cybersecurity, architecture, and cross-team collaboration.
About Our Team:
The Science & Engineering Information Systems organization is the partner of choice for innovative science and engineering information solutions for national security missions. We Research, engineer, and support integrated information solutions that enable diverse customers to solve complex business problems and national security issues. Our organization can offer flexible work patterns with standard, 9/80, and 4/10 schedules available.
Posting Duration:
This posting will be open for application submissions for a minimum of three (3) calendar days, including the 'posting date'. Sandia reserves the right to extend the posting date at any time.
Security Clearance:
Sandia is required by DOE to conduct a pre-employment drug test and background review that includes checks of personal references, credit, law enforcement records, and employment/education verifications. Applicants for employment need to be able to obtain and maintain a DOE Q-level security clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship. If you hold more than one citizenship (i.e., of the U.S. and another country), your ability to obtain a security clearance may be impacted.
Applicants offered employment with Sandia are subject to a federal background investigation to meet the requirements for access to classified information or matter if the duties of the position require a DOE security clearance. Substance abuse or illegal drug use, falsification of information, criminal activity, serious misconduct or other indicators of untrustworthiness can cause a clearance to be denied or terminated by DOE, resulting in the inability to perform the duties assigned and subsequent termination of employment.
EEO:
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status and any other protected class under state or federal law.
NNSA Requirements for MedPEDs:
If you have a Medical Portable Electronic Device (MedPED), such as a pacemaker, defibrillator, drug-releasing pump, hearing aids, or diagnostic equipment and other equipment for measuring, monitoring, and recording body functions such as heartbeat and brain waves, if employed by Sandia National Laboratories you may be required to comply with NNSA security requirements for MedPEDs.
If you have a MedPED and you are selected for an on-site interview at Sandia National Laboratories, there may be additional steps necessary to ensure compliance with NNSA security requirements prior to the interview date.
Job ID: 699589
Job Family: IT
Regular/Temporary Position: R
Full/Part-Time Status: F
