Software Architect

About the Role

The Software Architect maintains deep technical fluency, defines and guides enterprise architecture strategy, technical standards, and long-term system design practices. This role ensures decisions support scalability, reliability, maintainability, and business priorities, focusing on broad technical guardrails, cross-system architecture, strategic prototyping, architecture governance, business-facing technical leadership, and high-impact mentoring rather than daily feature execution.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business leaders, Product Management, software development leadership, and stakeholders to translate high-level objectives into actionable technical roadmaps, scalable architecture, and measurable business value.
• Define and evolve enterprise architecture strategy, architectural patterns, and technical guardrails to maximize performance, scalability, reliability, maintainability, security, and long-term system health.
• Chair cross-team architecture reviews and establish design standards, architecture decision records, documentation expectations, and governance practices that reduce technical debt and unify engineering practices.
• Lead architectural planning for complex cross-system changes spanning microservices, front-end applications, middleware, APIs, data flows, event-driven patterns, third-party integrations, and back-end systems.
• Guide cloud, platform, infrastructure, and security architecture in partnership with DevOps, Information Security, operations, and development teams to safeguard customer and company data.
• Serve as the senior technical escalation point for high-priority system failures, performance anomalies, reliability issues, integration problems, and architectural risks affecting core enterprise systems.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, including AI-assisted development tools, automation platforms, cloud services, frameworks, and third-party systems; build proofs of concept to validate future-state architecture and reduce technical uncertainty.
• Provide advanced technical guidance and architectural mentoring to team members and reduce key-person dependency by promoting knowledge sharing, technical diagrams, documentation standards, architecture decision records, review practices, and reusable patterns while promoting professionalism, sound judgment, and constructive risk communication.
• Establish and advocate engineering best practices including secure coding, Test-Driven Development (TDD), automated testing, CI/CD practices, code review standards, observability, and production stability.
• Support Agile/Scrum delivery by clarifying technical scope, sequencing architectural work, identifying dependencies and tradeoffs, and aligning technical execution with sprint, release, and roadmap commitments.
• Other duties as assigned by management.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related STEM field.
• Minimum 10 years of progressive experience in software development, software architecture, platform engineering, or technical leadership.
• Minimum 5 years of experience designing and delivering complex enterprise systems across front-end, middleware, back-end, integration, cloud, and data technologies.
• Experience working with business stakeholders within a cross-functional matrix environment.

Skills

• Microsoft Office suite
• Architecture and design tools
• Agile planning tools
• Cloud platforms, software development tools, application security tools
• CI/CD platforms
• Data and integration technologies
• Other role-specific development or design software