Aireon has deployed the world's first and global space-based air traffic surveillance system, which is revolutionizing the entire aviation industry. The Aireon system provides real-time aircraft monitoring spanning never before covered areas of the planet, including remote, oceanic and polar regions. Aireon's receivers are hosted on the Iridium constellation, which consists of 66 operational satellites in low-earth orbit and utilizes a unique cross-linked satellite architecture creating a web of coverage around the world. The Aireon system enables safer, more efficient and more environmentally friendly aviation travel, resulting in significant CO2 emission reductions. Numerous Air Navigation Service Providers have already signed on as customers and are receiving Aireon's space-based ADS-B data, including NAV CANADA, NATS (UK), Naviair (Denmark), Enav (Italy), the Irish Aviation Authority, Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore, Air Traffic and Navigation Services (South Africa) and more.

We are committed to offering an employment experience and benefits package that enables you and your family to grow with us and to share in our success.

Aireon seeks a Principal Solutions Architect to join our Integrated Product Team at Engineering. As a Principal Solutions Architect, you will be critical to the future of cloud-based platforms to support Aireon's internal and external customers. As the subject matter expert, you will develop cloud-native technology adoption plans, architecture design principles and best practices, an agile design review process, and cloud management and monitoring strategies.

As a leader, you will be responsible for building and leading a team of highly skilled product-focused Solutions Architects responsible for supporting Product Managers in understanding required capabilities and translating customer requirements into technical product requirements. In addition, your team will provide architecture direction to build the most secure, scalable, high-performing, resilient, and efficient cloud infrastructure possible for Aireon's products.

You will coach others, recognize their strengths, manage a variety of viewpoints to create positive outcomes, and act to resolve issues that prevent the team from working effectively.

Within the first month in the role, we will expect you to:

Get onboarded and trained with your manager.
• Be proactive in learning what Aireon does.
• Understand our internal processes and cloud-based products and architectures.
• Understand the role of IPT at Aireon and learn about IPT members' roles and responsibilities.

Within the first six (6) months in the role, we will expect you to:

• Be a Player-Coach and build and develop a strong team of highly technical and product-oriented Solutions Architects.
• Develop and own Aireon's Well-Architected playbook of principles for designing, implementing, and managing secure, efficient, resilient, high-performing, and cost-effective cloud-native solutions in public and government cloud environments.
• Develop best practices, templates, and documentation to create architectural designs.
• Own and maintain architecture artifacts in a centralized toolset, including high-level architecture, detail architecture, integration diagrams, roadmaps, and capability mapping.
• Identify risk areas and opportunities for improvements in existing product architectures and provide alternative strategies to address concerns and realize opportunities.
• Develop a technical roadmap that outlines initiatives to mitigate risks and realize opportunities.
• Lead proof of concepts and prototyping to support architectural decision-making and document comparative analysis.
• Drive the creation and modifications of end-to-end architectures, engaging all technical resources necessary to contribute to the architecture\design.

Overall, we will expect you to:

• Continue developing reference architectures and validate designs through proof-of-concept to meet evolving business needs.
• Evangelize cloud-native emerging technologies on conceptual and practical architectural levels.
• Provide subject-matter expertise and clarify architecture patterns for the technical teams to support implementation and resolve architectural impediments.
• Collaborate with technical teams and assist with applying Agile and DevSecOps techniques within architecture and designs.
• Provide architectural and best practices for implementing security controls over public and government cloud environments.
• Attract, retain, coach, and mentor highly skilled Solutions Architects.

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Six or more years of work experience as a Solutions Architect, designing and architecting highly scalable distributed systems using different cloud-native technologies in public and government Azure environments.
• Four or more years managing a technical team of solution architects, technical product owners, or similar technical roles.
• Four or more years of hands-on experience in software engineering.
• Possess hands-on experience in designing and implementing microservice with event-driven architectures for reliable processing of low-latency telemetry.
• Experience in designing data stream processing architectures for real-time operations.
• Working experience in designing high availability and fault tolerance environments.
• Proficiency in at least one high-level scripting language (PowerShell, Python, Bash, etc.) and at least one programming language (Java, JavaScript, C#, Python, .NET Framework).
• Working experience in a DevOps environment and with Agile SDLC methodologies.
• Experience in setting direction for disaster recovery models.
• Presentation skills with high comfort speaking with executives, engineering and business stakeholders, and developers.
• Eligible to obtain SF-85P public trust.

• Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification.
• Kubernetes certification(s).
• TOGAF certification.
• Experience related to API, including Open API and REST services.
• Experience designing and implementing solutions using NATS.io, Apache Kafka, and Spark/Databricks.
• Experience designing and implementing big data technology stack for scale and enabling AI/ML capabilities.
• Experience with high-performance RDBMS/NoSQL and HDFS/Data Lakes.

You are a self-starter. Sitting and waiting isn't an option. You take the initiative to make things happen.

You are a leader. You are successful at mentoring, leading, and managing highly skilled engineers. No matter where you find yourself, others gather around you, leading to encouragement and mentoring.

You are self-motivated. You have a proven track record of connecting technology to measurable business value.

You love solving problems. For you, designing isn't just about the end product. It's about the journey. Your creativity linking business sense and technology to tangible solutions will lead you to educate our product engineering team about the art of the possible.

You are collaborative. You're a team player who puts the team's interest above your own. You are fun to work with and display a positive attitude, are open, and enjoy contributing.

Technology is your passion. It doesn't just provide a paycheck. You are genuinely interested in what you do and its impact on others.

You are hands-on. You will be required to code regularly and participate in several engineering efforts. You can support multiple design and product activities at the same time.

• The Integrated Product Team is primarily responsible for developing and operating secure and reliable products for internal and external customers. The team shares customer satisfaction, faster delivery, and profitability responsibility.
• The Integrated Product Team comprises product development and product engineering.
• You will play a critical role in the product development team.
• The product development team is responsible for translating customer requirements and business objectives into product and sprint backlogs, designing a robust architecture to support the product goals, creating technical roadmaps, planning product releases, and improving the efficiency of people and processes, leading to faster and reliable deployment.
• We follow the Scrum methodology and work on a 2-week sprint basis.
• We leverage collaboration tools to connect remotely with team members and stakeholders.
• Most team members are in the Washington, DC, area, with external consultants based in Canada.

• Premium medical, dental and vision plan
• Life Insurance and AD&D
• Short Term and Long Term Disability
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• Retirement 401K plan with Employer Matching
• Education Assistance and Tuition Reimbursement
• Paid Time Off, Sick Leave, Floating Holidays
• Paid Parental Leave
• Company Sponsored Events
• Employee Referral Program

Aireon requires all employees/new hires to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 prior to starting work. Aireon is an equal opportunity employer and will consider requests for exemption from this policy as a reasonable accommodation where it can do so absent undue hardship, consistent with federal, state, and local law.

Aireon is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or status as a protected veteran. EOE of Minorities/Females/Vets/Disability and other protected categories.