At Nebraska Furniture Mart (NFM), we’ve been hiring friends since 1937—people who share our passion for helping customers feel right at home. If you share our vision, we invite you to be one of us! People love working here! Named one of Furniture Today’s Best places to work, and here a few reasons why: A FUN, stable work environment, with no layoffs in our history. A safe place to work and shop, development opportunities leading you to the career of your dreams and a culture that encourages volunteering and serving our communities.
Pay Range: $86,261 - 138,906 annually
Job Description: Your Piece of the Puzzle
As NFM’s Azure Cloud Application Architect you will be responsible for leading the design and development of software applications, ensuring they align with both business and IT strategies. This role involves applying modern architectural principles such as Domain-Driven Design, Clean Architecture, and Event-Driven Architecture, optimizing applications for cloud environments, and setting development standards. This is a remote position requiring the candidate to reside in one of the following states: NE, IA, MO, KS or TX.
Job Duties: A Day in the Life
• Play Your Part: Lead the design and development of complex software applications using .NET frameworks
• Be the Expert: Create architectural blueprints that illustrate the system's high-level structure and integration points
• Enhance: Monitor and optimize application performance, especially in a cloud environment
• Implement Domain-Driven Design to align software architecture with business domain complexities
• Be Precise: Ensure architecture aligns with business requirements & IT strategy
• Manage: Ensure software solutions are scalable, reliable, and can be seamlessly integrated into existing systems
• Collaborate: Work together with various teams to meet project objectives, ensure application scalability and performance, particularly in cloud deployments, and provide mentorship and technical leadership to development teams
• Support: Guide the selection of cloud services and tools that complement and enhance .NET-based applications
Your work will directly impact our ability to help people create a lifestyle they love, for the people they love—because that’s what we love.
Qualifications: Can You Check These Boxes?
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in software development, with a strong focus on .NET technologies
• Proficiency in Agile methodologies and experience in Agile working environments
• Expertise in C#, ASP.NET, .NET Core, Entity Framework, and SQL Server.
• Familiarity with cloud platform deployment (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
• Knowledge of Kafka and real-time data processing is beneficial
• Solid understanding of various software development methodologies
• Comprehensive knowledge of the software development lifecycle
• Pre-employment screening includes, but isn’t limited to, criminal background check
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Benefits: What’s in It for You?
As a full-time member of our NFM Family, you will enjoy:
• Same day pay - access to your earned pay on-demand, when you need it the most
• Competitive pay - generous annual increases up to 7%
• Inclusive culture – Because everyone who works or shops at NFM should feel right at home
• Health, dental, vision, life Insurance, short and long term disability
• Paid holidays (upon hire) and paid time off (after 90 days)
• Staff discount on merchandise (Collectively, NFM staff have saved almost $2 million on purchases in the last 12 months)
• Virtual and in-person career development opportunities at all levels
• Paid community volunteer opportunities
• Tuition Reimbursement
• You’ll start saving for your retirement immediately in NFM’s 401(k) and you’re eligible for company match after one year. NFM’s 401(k) also offers Berkshire Stock as an investment option
Nebraska Furniture Mart is an Equal Opportunity Employer