Software Architect

About This Role

This architecture role defines and guides the company's enterprise architecture strategy, technical standards, and long-term system design practices. It focuses on broad technical guardrails, cross-system architecture, strategic prototyping, architecture governance, business-facing technical leadership, and high-impact mentoring.

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
• Perform other duties as assigned by management
• Come to work promptly and regularly
• Take direction and work well with others
• Work under the stress of deadlines
• Concentrate and perform accurately