Software Architect

About the role

The successful candidate will be responsible for owning the technical direction of a large, long-lived enterprise platform and leading its evolution toward a simpler, more scalable, and more maintainable future. They will define the target architecture, drive a pragmatic modernization strategy, and bring a data-driven perspective to how Zotec invests in the platform and its teams over time.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical architecture — define the architecture, standards, and design/security/integration guidelines (and the decisions behind them) for the platform, aligned to business goals and long-term scalability
• Drive the modernization roadmap — lead the pragmatic, incremental evolution of established systems toward a modern stack, making decisions that balance innovation with stability and business continuity
• Simplify and decouple — establish clear service boundaries and reduce complexity so the platform is easier, faster, and safer to change
• Design for scale — architect for scalability and configurability so the platform grows efficiently alongside our expanding customer base
• Strengthen observability — establish telemetry, monitoring, and alerting standards (on Datadog) so teams can see, measure, and continuously improve system health, performance, and reliability
• Bring data to the table — establish architecture metrics and governance that give leadership clear visibility into delivery, quality, and technical health to guide investment and roadmap decisions over time
• Partner across the organization — work with engineering leads, product owners, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable, maintainable solutions; lead system-design and security reviews
• Elevate the team — mentor engineers, raise the bar on engineering practices and delivery, and apply modern tooling (including AI) to help teams work more effectively

Requirements

• A proven technical leader at the intersection of architecture, strategy, and hands-on engineering — energized by making large, long-lived systems scale and endure
• Deep in enterprise .NET — architecting solutions in C# on .NET Framework and .NET Core, with strong command of integration patterns, service/API design, distributed-systems principles, and SQL Server, across large-scale on-prem and hybrid systems
• Experienced — 8+ years in software engineering, with at least 3 in an architecture or technical-leadership role
• Adaptable across old and new — comfortable working across both established and modern systems, you use modern AI assistants to ramp quickly and accelerate delivery, valuing architectural judgment and adaptability over mastery of any single technology
• A pragmatic, data-driven communicator — you quantify technical trade-offs, build consensus across technical and non-technical stakeholders, and make a clear business case for investment
• Security- and compliance-minded — you treat healthcare compliance and security (HIPAA, PCI) as first-class design constraints
• Leverage legacy modernization at scale — experience with strangler-fig, API wrapping, and event sourcing in large enterprise codebases, and using AI to accelerate it
• Cloud-native & AWS — adoption strategy across serverless, containerization, and infrastructure-as-code
• DevOps & delivery — CI/CD pipeline design, delivery automation, and DevOps practices at enterprise scale
• Domain — healthcare IT, revenue cycle management, or other regulated industries
• AI/ML — familiarity with AI/ML integration patterns and evaluating emerging technologies for enterprise applicability
• People & practice — mentoring senior engineers, fostering technical excellence and continuous improvement; Agile/Kanban (SAFe a plus)
• Credentials — formal architecture training or certifications (AWS Solutions Architect, TOGAF), or a track record of published ADRs

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• Experience: 8+ years in software engineering, with at least 3 in an architecture or technical-leadership role

Skills

• .NET
• .NET Core
• C#
• SQL Server
• AWS
• Datadog
• Modern AI development tools
• Enterprise architecture
• Modernization strategies
• Service/API design
• Distributed-systems principles
• Telemetry, monitoring, and alerting
• Data-driven decision-making
• Healthcare compliance and security (HIPAA, PCI)
• Strangler-fig, API wrapping, and event sourcing
• Serverless, containerization, and infrastructure-as-code
• CI/CD pipeline design
• DevOps practices
• Agile/Kanban
• Formal architecture training or certifications (AWS Solutions Architect, TOGAF)

Benefits

• Paid time off (PTO) to balance a fulfilling work and personal life
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Company-paid life insurance, AD&D, and disability
• Money for your 401(k)
• Volunteerism support and charitable gift matching through the Zotec Effect program
• Tailored learning and professional development to grow your career

Pay

Competitive salary based on experience and qualifications

Schedule

Full-time position