Lead Software Engineer & Architect

Essential Functions

• Evaluates and designs comprehensive solutions, offering strategic recommendations that emphasize scalability, maintainability, and alignment with long-term business goals
• Acts as technical lead for IT applications, providing direction, coaching, and mentoring to developers and co-ops on different platforms and products as needed
• Creates or contributes to the creation of solution architectures and proof of concepts, thoroughly detailing architectural solutions and decisions through diagrams and documentation
• Creates or contributes to the definition of architectural principles, standards, methodologies, and best practices and guides the team on implementation
• Collaborates seamlessly with business analysts and project managers to align technology solutions with user needs
• Works with IT leadership and other IT architects to ensure application development, integration, and data quality best practices are defined and followed
• Guides team members on platforms, architectures, designs, patterns, and practices
• Continuously improves development methodologies in partnership with QA and Data Engineers, supporting the shift toward automated testing and robust data pipelines
• Provides excellent second-tier customer support and effectively troubleshoots developed solutions
• Leads scope of work estimation and forecasting for development cycles

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

• Proven ability to work in an Agile/Scrum software development environment
• Extensive demonstrated knowledge of software architecture
• Proven experience leading initiatives, mentoring team members, and driving innovation and strategic improvements within the organization
• Ability to convey complex ideas and project strategies in a clear and compelling manner to stakeholders, project teams and senior leadership
• Ability to lead diverse teams to achieve common goals, while mentoring team members
• Demonstrates advanced planning, organizational, and time management skills, leading multiple projects within the program, guiding all stakeholders, and driving strategic initiatives to achieve organizational goals
• Advanced ability to analyze data, trends, and complex problems to make informed decisions within relevant specialty area
• Proactively adapts to new challenges and leverages learnings to drive innovation and mentor others
• Fosters collaboration across different departments or teams to harness collective creativity and drive innovation. Strong communication skills to effectively convey ideas and facilitate discussions
• Demonstrated impact in cross-functional projects, ensuring alignment and synergy among diverse teams

Education, Licenses, and Certifications

• Required: High School Diploma or GED
• PREFERRED: Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or a closely related field
• MICROSOFT AZURE SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT AZ-304 CERTIFICATION OR OTHER SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT CERTIFICATIONS

Experience

• Five or more years of professional work experience
• Three or more years of hands-on experience in software development, designing and architecting solutions on large scale enterprise level applications
• BUILDING LARGE SCALE APPLICATIONS WITH FRONT END TECHNOLOGY PLATFORMS LIKE ANGULAR, ASP.NET, OR ANY OTHER JAVASCRIPT TECHNOLOGY
• DESIGNING, DEVELOPING, AND INTEGRATING APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (APIs), INCLUDING REST WEBSERVICES, SOAP API, GRAPH API, ETC.
• Two or more years of experience evaluating buy vs. build solutions
• Two or more years of experience with enterprise level architect concepts and with developing strategic plans and roadmaps

Additional Requirements

• Work Context: Must be able to work prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer
• Must be able to work under minimal supervision
• Must be able to sit, stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, climb, and crawl
• Must be able to lift 25 pounds
• Must have a US state or territory issued Real ID compliant driver’s license or identification card