Lead Software Architect

About the role

Bright Vision Technologies is a technology consulting and software development company delivering cloud, AI, data, and enterprise solutions across the United States. This is a fantastic opportunity to join an established and well-respected organization offering tremendous career growth potential. Position: Lead Software Architect, 100% Remote (U.S.), Full-time, Direct W2. Sponsorship: U.S. Citizens, Green Card Holders, EAD Holders, and H-1B transfer candidates are encouraged to apply; we are unable to sponsor new H-1B visa petitions for this position.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive enterprise software architecture strategy across multiple products, platforms, and engineering organizations
• Design highly scalable, fault-tolerant, cloud-native distributed systems capable of supporting enterprise-scale workloads
• Establish architecture principles, technical standards, and governance practices that improve software quality and consistency
• Lead architecture reviews, technical design sessions, and engineering decision-making for high-impact initiatives
• Partner with executive leadership, engineering managers, product teams, and business stakeholders to align technology strategy with organizational objectives
• Drive platform modernization initiatives, including microservices adoption, cloud migration, API strategy, and event-driven architectures
• Lead performance optimization, scalability planning, reliability engineering, and system resiliency improvements
• Mentor Staff and Senior Engineers while fostering engineering excellence, architectural best practices, and technical innovation
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend strategic investments that improve engineering capabilities and business outcomes
• Author and review architecture documentation, technical RFCs, design specifications, and Architecture Decision Records (ADRs)
• Contribute hands-on to critical architectural components, proof-of-concepts, and complex technical implementations when appropriate
• Champion DevSecOps, observability, automation, and operational excellence across engineering teams

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline
• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale software platforms
• Proven expertise architecting and deploying large-scale distributed systems in production environments
• Advanced programming proficiency in Java, Go, C++, C#, or similar backend technologies
• Deep understanding of software architecture, microservices, distributed computing, API design, messaging systems, and event-driven architectures
• Strong expertise in cloud platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Extensive experience with performance engineering, scalability, high availability, disaster recovery, and system optimization
• Demonstrated success leading cross-functional technical initiatives spanning multiple engineering teams or business units
• Strong understanding of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), observability, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and modern DevOps practices
• Excellent communication, leadership, analytical, and stakeholder management skills

Qualifications

• Public technical contributions, including conference presentations, published papers, technical blogs, patents, or leadership in open-source projects
• Experience leading multi-year enterprise modernization or digital transformation programs
• Knowledge of FinOps, cloud governance, and large-scale cloud cost optimization strategies
• Experience designing solutions for regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare, or government
• Advanced degree (Master's or Ph.D.) or recognized industry certifications in software architecture or cloud technologies
• Experience with Kubernetes, service mesh technologies, enterprise integration patterns, and AI-enabled software platforms

Pay

Salary Range: $175,000–$200,000 Annually

Schedule

Position Type: Full-time, Direct W2