Technical Lead / Solution Architect

About the role

An opportunity is available for a Technical Lead / Solution Architect to guide the architecture, technical strategy, and implementation of a strategic enterprise platform. This platform is designed to centralize release impact analysis, test selection, and governance processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead the overall technical architecture, design, and implementation strategy for the enterprise platform.
• Define the platform's application, integration, data, analytics, security, governance, and AI architecture patterns.
• Establish the canonical data model for releases, requirements, test cases, test executions, defects, and audit records.
• Design and govern integrations with GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, and other enterprise systems.
• Partner with engineering teams to establish implementation patterns, coding standards, and DevSecOps practices.
• Conduct architecture reviews, design reviews, and technical decision-making sessions across multiple workstreams.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers and architects.
• Collaborate with product owners, technical program managers, and business stakeholders to align technical solutions with objectives.
• Drive platform scalability, operational readiness, resiliency, security, and maintainability.
• Support the creation of technical roadmaps, architecture artifacts, design documentation, and implementation plans.
• Evaluate emerging technologies to improve release certification, test automation, and analytics.

Requirements

• Education: A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Data Engineering, or a related technical field is required.
• Experience: Candidates must have 10+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 5 years in a Technical Lead, Solution Architect, Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer, or equivalent technical leadership role. This includes demonstrated experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale platforms with multiple integrations and large data volumes.
• Technical Skills: Strong experience with cloud-native architecture, microservices, APIs, and event-driven systems is necessary. Deep understanding of CI/CD, DevOps, GitHub Enterprise, GitHub Actions, and Azure DevOps is also required. Additional skills include experience designing enterprise data models, implementing security controls like RBAC, and a strong understanding of observability and monitoring strategies.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Quality Engineering, Test Automation, Test Management, or Release Management platforms.
• Experience in the financial services, banking, or another highly regulated industry.
• Experience building AI-enabled solutions using Generative AI, AI agents, machine learning, or recommendation engines.
• Experience designing solutions for traceability, auditability, compliance, and governance.
• Familiarity with Oracle Banking platforms, Zafin, and enterprise testing ecosystems.
• Experience with test data management platforms such as GenRocket or similar solutions.
• Understanding of release certification, production readiness, and quality gates.
• Experience with Agile methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban, or SAFe.
• Prior experience as the lead architect for a strategic enterprise platform initiative.

Benefits

Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our ‘Welcome Packet’ as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.

Pay

The salary range for this role is $120,000 - $180,000 annually.

Schedule

This role is hybrid, with a mix of remote and in-office work.