Orbisoperations Senior Integration Architect leading integration delivery for government client data sources. Design, build, deploy, and validate data integrations while working closely with customer engineering and operations teams.
Responsibilities
Lead full-lifecycle integration delivery for assigned data sources in coordination with your team: requirements analysis, connector design, implementation, testing, deployment, and validation in the target environment
Lead customer technical discovery as a core responsibility: work directly with customer engineering and operations teams to map their network topology, data sources, system dependencies, and operational constraints; this understanding is the foundation that integration design and deployment decisions are built on and cannot be delegated or skipped
Drive technical decisions when integrations don't fit established patterns; document decisions and rationale for the team and contribute to shared architectural standards
Mentor Integration Engineers through code review, pairing, and direct feedback; serve as the first point of escalation before the team lead
Design and build custom data connectors and integration plugins (producer bridges, operators, consumer bridges) for complex or undocumented source systems across air, land, maritime, air defense, space, and cyber domains
Own the orchestration and management of on-premises data platform environments (cluster configuration, service health, data connectivity) and cloud-connected infrastructure (resource provisioning, hybrid connectivity, access controls) across the program's deployment surface
Deploy and validate integrations across customer environments (cloud-native, on-premises, and tactical edge) using infrastructure orchestration tooling; ensure integrations work in theater, not just in dev
Stand up and configure platform nodes and on-premises data platform components using established runbooks; validate cluster health, data platform connectivity, and configuration correctness post-deployment
Diagnose and resolve cross-system integration failures under operational pressure; distinguish integration-layer issues from platform-layer issues and drive resolution with the team
Triage platform issues: determine whether a problem is in the program's integration code or in the platform itself, and file high-quality bugs with reproductions when it's the latter; software-layer issues route to the platform product team
Contribute reusable integration patterns, runbooks, and onboarding documentation to the program-wide integrator playbook; flag candidates for upstream contribution to the platform product team
Provide clear, solution-oriented status updates to the team lead; frame problems with proposed approaches rather than open questions
Qualification
Familiarity with access controlExperience debugging complexBackground with militaryUnderstanding of service mesh conceptsBackground in customer enablement
Required
5-8 years of professional software engineering experience with a focus on system integrations, data pipelines, and distributed data platforms
Proficiency in Go (preferred) or Python for integration development
Demonstrated ability to drive an integration from requirement through production deployment as a team lead and technical decision-maker
Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code and deployment tooling (e.g., Terraform, Ansible) to provision, configure, and validate platform environments
Working knowledge of on-premises big data platforms and their operational characteristics (e.g., Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Presto); ability to configure, validate, and triage at the platform layer
Experience deploying and integrating within cloud-native environments (e.g., GCP VPC, BigQuery, Dataflow, GKE); familiarity with cloud resource lifecycle and connectivity patterns
Experience connecting on-premises and cloud environments under security constraints (e.g., Cloud Interconnect, Private Service Connect, VPN); ability to validate and troubleshoot hybrid data paths
Familiarity with access control, identity management, and network security controls in multi-environment deployments (e.g., IAM, VPC Service Controls)
Experience debugging complex, cross-system integration failures in production or near-production environments
Track record of mentoring junior engineers through code review, pairing, or technical guidance
Strong collaboration and communication skills in distributed, remote, cross-functional teams
Comfort operating as the technical point of contact in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
Preferred
Proven ability to lead customer technical discovery: mapping network environments, identifying data sources and system dependencies, and translating operational requirements into integration design decisions
Familiarity with defense data standards and protocols: ASTERIX, Cursor on Target (CoT), STANAG, radar UDP
Track record of designing integration patterns for undocumented or poorly documented source systems
Background with military, law enforcement, or intelligence community operations and organizations
Background supporting international programs with distributed, cross-cultural teams rotating through operational environments
Understanding of service mesh concepts, mTLS, and zero-trust network architectures
Familiarity with edge-native deployment patterns and constrained operational environments
Background in customer enablement, technical training, or knowledge transfer in field environments