Junior Architect

Junior Architect

As a Junior Architect, you will play a crucial role in shaping the architectural direction of our enterprise business applications. You will be responsible for designing, reviewing, and guiding the architecture of various systems, ensuring they meet corporate standards and regulatory compliance. Your work will directly impact the security, scalability, and efficiency of our applications.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture design, guidance, and version-support for a suite of enterprise business applications, assessing upgrade impact, patches, and enablement requests.
• Directly responsible for developing application architecture and leading architecture reviews, partnering with the enterprise architecture team to ensure alignment with corporate-level standards and guidance.
• Lead vendor risk assessment and architecture review for a document management system replacement initiative, including capability gap analysis, ROM/proposal evaluation, and technical ownership through implementation.
• Drive architecture governance and nuclear regulatory compliance for the Nuclear AI Platform strategy, covering Bifrost credential/readiness requirements and Gemini enablement.
• Maintain and update nuclear regulatory compliance documentation as new platforms (e.g., Gemini) and processes are introduced.
• Standardize and maintain the security onboarding process for contractors and non-US personnel supporting Nuclear IT engagements.
• Lead architecture impact assessments for API gateway migrations (e.g., migration to TYK) affecting core nuclear business systems.
• Review and guide architecture for data pipeline/CDC initiatives (e.g., Lakeflow Connect two-pipeline architecture) supporting Nuclear Databricks migration.
• Evaluate hosting and deployment options for emerging platforms (e.g., open-source LLMs, on-prem appliances vs. cloud container services) against Nuclear security requirements.
• Serve as a technical architecture authority for Nuclear IT application reviews, vendor proposals, and modernization initiatives.
• Lead architecture review sessions with application teams, assessing designs for security, scalability, integration, and regulatory compliance.
• Partner with vendors and contractors on technical evaluations, risk assessments, and implementation oversight.
• Define and maintain architecture standards, decision records, and technical documentation for the Nuclear IT portfolio.
• Ensure architecture decisions align with corporate security, compliance, and nuclear regulatory policies and standards.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to project teams and junior architects/engineers.
• Define and monitor architecture-related metrics and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for systems under review.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

Requirements

• IT Architecture
• Application architecture

• Experience with nuclear regulatory compliance
• Knowledge of data pipeline and CDC initiatives
• Familiarity with open-source LLMs and cloud container services
• Strong communication and leadership skills
• Ability to mentor and guide junior architects/engineers