Systems Architect

About the role

The System Architect is accountable for the technical architecture of the ARM application. This role involves designing and validating solutions across an AWS-hosted, Pega-driven stack, defining how services and components integrate, and ensuring the platform maintains performance, scalability, and security. This is a hands-on architecture position where the contractor will produce architecture artifacts, review and guide implementation, and work directly with engineering, QA, and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design and document the application's system-level architecture across AWS infrastructure, Pega workflows, and supporting .NET/C# services.
• Define integration points, including APIs, data flows, and event contracts between components and adjacent systems.
• Produce architecture diagrams, data-flow diagrams, and technical specifications to guide implementation.
• Apply Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform / OpenTofu) practices.
• Design for scalability, fault tolerance, and security, including within an event-driven architecture.
• Partner with engineering, QA, and product/business stakeholders to translate requirements into architectural solutions.
• Review code and design artifacts from the engineering team against the intended architecture and standards.
• Maintain up-to-date architecture documentation.

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Experience: 5–8 years of overall IT experience, including at least 2–3 years in a system or solutions architecture role.
• Demonstrated experience designing, implementing, and supporting complex, cloud-native system architectures.
• Working expertise in integration patterns, APIs, and microservices/event-driven communication.
• Technical Skills: AWS, Pega, Postgres, .NET / C#, React, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform and/or OpenTofu), Event-Driven Architecture.

Preferred Qualifications

• Snowflake / Snowpipe
• PowerBI
• Domain-Driven Design (DDD) practices
• Background in insurance or financial services processing at scale
• AI-Enabled Engineering experience
• Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans
• ESPP (employee stock purchase program)
• 401K program with company match
• HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan)
• SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions
• Corporate discount savings program and other discounts
• On-demand training program, certification prep, and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars
• Certification discounts and other perks to associations like CompTIA and IIBA
• Customer service team for benefits and other resources
• Certified Career Coach

Pay

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Schedule

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