Clarity Innovations
Platform Engineer, Product Architect
Clarity Innovations, Columbia, Maryland, United States, 21046
Clarity Innovations is a trusted national security partner, dedicated to safeguarding our nation’s interests and delivering innovative solutions that empower the Intelligence Community (IC) and Department of Defense (DoD) to transform data into actionable intelligence, ensuring mission success in an evolving world.
Our mission-first software and data engineering platform modernizes data operations, utilizing advanced workflows, CI/CD, and secure DevSecOps practices. We focus on challenges in Information Warfare, Cyber Operations, Operational Security, and Data Structuring, enabling end-to-end solutions that drive operational impact.
We are committed to delivering cutting‑edge tools and capabilities that address the most complex national security challenges, empowering our partners to stay ahead of emerging threats and ensuring the success of their critical missions. At Clarity, we are people-focused and set on being a destination employer for top talent, offering an environment where innovation thrives, careers grow, and individuals are valued. Join us as we continue to lead innovation and tackle the most pressing challenges in national security.
Role Overview This position is part of a dynamic team at the forefront of enterprise‑level product platform development to support the next generation of cyber network operations. In this role, you will contribute to developing a platform that simplifies complex infrastructure management across cloud‑native and on‑premises environments. Your work will involve architecting scalable systems, implementing GitOps workflows for version‑controlled and automated operations, and designing declarative interfaces. The goal is to create tools and processes that bridge the gap between development and operations, enhancing productivity and reliability in diverse infrastructure settings. You will be expected to provide architectural design, system design, and elegant solutions to pressing operational challenges. As a Product Architect (PA), you will lead by doing, helping to prototype product features and capabilities, proving out viability of implementations and ensuring a cohesive technological baseline is maintained as the “source of truth” of the product. This baseline will support platform implementations across various programs. As a PA, you will oversee those implementations, task out team members to ensure compliance with the main baseline, and collaborate with various mission teams to gain an understanding of customer requirements that can evolve the platform over time.
Responsibilities
Lead prototyping efforts to validate design concepts and technologies, while supporting the product baseline lifecycle from discovery to production support
Communicate thoughtful designs, architecture, and product integration expectations across teams
Be the person who hold the vision in their mind at all times, and allowing that influence architecture and team execution across the various projects consuming the product baseline
Exemplify the “lead by doing” workflow - building, prototyping, and demonstrating should the priority
Develop robust and high‑quality software aligned with the overall product vision, balancing user requirements with strategic goals and consistently delivering working solutions on schedule
Work with the Chief Product Architect to track work, develop roadmaps, and ensure programs that consume the product baseline are driving towards a common goal of product alignment
Converge the project teams to a common baseline - understand the project consumers of the platform and establish a plan to transition, educate, and collaborate with project tech leads to help them practice good productization consumption processes
Required Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline. (Degree requirement can be met with 4 years of hands‑on experience in a Software Engineering or similar full‑time position.)
12+ years as a software engineer, product engineer, or equivalent role, leading development teams and missions to successful implementations
Ability to collaborate as a team but execute independently
Thrives in a high‑trust, adaptable team environment
Familiar with contributing to or leading the design of new capabilities
Experience writing code in a general‑purpose language such as Python or GoLang
Highly proficient with Kubernetes (K8s) deployment strategies, cluster lifecycle (deployment, troubleshooting, scaling), and container orchestration
Experience implementing modern DevOps practices and tools (e.g., CI/CD, IaC, GitOps) in production deployment workflows
Proficient in containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Podman)
Highly experienced designing and implementing solutions on Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Current US TS/SCI security clearance
Preferred Qualifications
Experience leading multiple teams and projects to a common end‑state vision
Experience in the private sector building out commercial products
Experience and/or familiarity with Crossplane and Backstage platform tools
Familiarity with Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) utilities
Experience and/or familiarity with Generative AI platforms, tools, and concepts of deploying LLMs and similar AI models for various applications driven by K8s
We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
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As set forth in Clarity Innovations’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.
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Our mission-first software and data engineering platform modernizes data operations, utilizing advanced workflows, CI/CD, and secure DevSecOps practices. We focus on challenges in Information Warfare, Cyber Operations, Operational Security, and Data Structuring, enabling end-to-end solutions that drive operational impact.
We are committed to delivering cutting‑edge tools and capabilities that address the most complex national security challenges, empowering our partners to stay ahead of emerging threats and ensuring the success of their critical missions. At Clarity, we are people-focused and set on being a destination employer for top talent, offering an environment where innovation thrives, careers grow, and individuals are valued. Join us as we continue to lead innovation and tackle the most pressing challenges in national security.
Role Overview This position is part of a dynamic team at the forefront of enterprise‑level product platform development to support the next generation of cyber network operations. In this role, you will contribute to developing a platform that simplifies complex infrastructure management across cloud‑native and on‑premises environments. Your work will involve architecting scalable systems, implementing GitOps workflows for version‑controlled and automated operations, and designing declarative interfaces. The goal is to create tools and processes that bridge the gap between development and operations, enhancing productivity and reliability in diverse infrastructure settings. You will be expected to provide architectural design, system design, and elegant solutions to pressing operational challenges. As a Product Architect (PA), you will lead by doing, helping to prototype product features and capabilities, proving out viability of implementations and ensuring a cohesive technological baseline is maintained as the “source of truth” of the product. This baseline will support platform implementations across various programs. As a PA, you will oversee those implementations, task out team members to ensure compliance with the main baseline, and collaborate with various mission teams to gain an understanding of customer requirements that can evolve the platform over time.
Responsibilities
Lead prototyping efforts to validate design concepts and technologies, while supporting the product baseline lifecycle from discovery to production support
Communicate thoughtful designs, architecture, and product integration expectations across teams
Be the person who hold the vision in their mind at all times, and allowing that influence architecture and team execution across the various projects consuming the product baseline
Exemplify the “lead by doing” workflow - building, prototyping, and demonstrating should the priority
Develop robust and high‑quality software aligned with the overall product vision, balancing user requirements with strategic goals and consistently delivering working solutions on schedule
Work with the Chief Product Architect to track work, develop roadmaps, and ensure programs that consume the product baseline are driving towards a common goal of product alignment
Converge the project teams to a common baseline - understand the project consumers of the platform and establish a plan to transition, educate, and collaborate with project tech leads to help them practice good productization consumption processes
Required Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline. (Degree requirement can be met with 4 years of hands‑on experience in a Software Engineering or similar full‑time position.)
12+ years as a software engineer, product engineer, or equivalent role, leading development teams and missions to successful implementations
Ability to collaborate as a team but execute independently
Thrives in a high‑trust, adaptable team environment
Familiar with contributing to or leading the design of new capabilities
Experience writing code in a general‑purpose language such as Python or GoLang
Highly proficient with Kubernetes (K8s) deployment strategies, cluster lifecycle (deployment, troubleshooting, scaling), and container orchestration
Experience implementing modern DevOps practices and tools (e.g., CI/CD, IaC, GitOps) in production deployment workflows
Proficient in containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Podman)
Highly experienced designing and implementing solutions on Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Current US TS/SCI security clearance
Preferred Qualifications
Experience leading multiple teams and projects to a common end‑state vision
Experience in the private sector building out commercial products
Experience and/or familiarity with Crossplane and Backstage platform tools
Familiarity with Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) utilities
Experience and/or familiarity with Generative AI platforms, tools, and concepts of deploying LLMs and similar AI models for various applications driven by K8s
We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
Voluntary Self-Identification For government reporting purposes, we ask candidates to respond to the below self‑identification survey. Completion of the form is entirely voluntary. Whatever your decision, it will not be considered in the hiring process or thereafter. Any information that you do provide will be recorded and maintained in a confidential file.
As set forth in Clarity Innovations’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.
Voluntary Self-Identification of Disability Form CC‑305 Page 1 of 1 OMB Control Number 1250‑0005 Expires 04/30/2026
Why are you being asked to complete this form?
We are a federal contractor or subcontractor. The law requires us to provide equal employment opportunity to qualified people with disabilities. We have a goal of having at least 7% of our workers as people with disabilities. The law says we must measure our progress towards this goal. To do this, we must ask applicants and employees if they have a disability or have ever had one. People can become disabled, so we need to ask this question at least every five years.
How do you know if you have a disability?
A disability is a condition that substantially limits one or more of your “major life activities.” If you have or have ever had such a condition, you are a person with a disability.
Disabilities include, but are not limited to:
Alcohol or other substance use disorder (not currently using drugs illegally)
Autoimmune disorder, for example, lupus, fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, HIV/AIDS
Blind or low vision
Cancer (past or present)
Cardiovascular or heart disease
Celiac disease
Cerebral palsy
Deaf or serious difficulty hearing
Diabetes
Disfigurement, for example, disfigurement caused by burns, wounds, accidents, or congenital disorders
Epilepsy or other seizure disorder
Gastrointestinal disorders, for example, Crohn’s Disease, irritable bowel syndrome
Intellectual or developmental disability
Mental health conditions, for example, depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorder, schizophrenia, PTSD
Missing limbs or partially missing limbs
Mobility impairment, benefiting from the use of a wheelchair, scooter, walker, leg brace(s) and/or other supports
Nervous system condition, for example, migraine headaches, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis (MS)
Neurodivergence, for example, attention‑deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorder, dyslexia, dyspraxia, other learning disabilities
Partial or complete paralysis (any cause)
Pulmonary or respiratory conditions, for example, tuberculosis, asthma, emphysema
Short stature (dwarfism)
Traumatic brain injury
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