Software Architect

Job Responsibilities

• Possess and demonstrate fantastic organizational, time management, conceptualization, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Deep understanding of architectural design patterns, their strengths and weaknesses, and when it’s appropriate to use them end to end, ensuring measurable success criteria and timely stakeholder communication.
• Align Architectural Designs to business outcomes and Objectives & Key Results (OKRs) with disciplined execution—clear standards, traceability, and on-time deliverables. Capture trade-offs and approvals in Architecture Decision Records (ADR).
• Collaborate with Product Managers and Owners, SRE/Platform, Security, Data, QA and Development Managers, producing concise, audit-ready artifacts.
• Practice ticket and time management (daily time logs; prompt open/update/close of tickets)
• Translate Requirements into Architectural Designs that meet Functional and non-Functional Requirements (Availability, Latency, Throughput, Security) with versioning, change control, and well-defined rollout and rollback plans.
• Follow Architectural and industry best practices, standards, and patterns. Escalate and communicate exceptions as-needed
• Contribute to security-by-design, e.g. threat model inputs, as it applies to architectural designs using approved patterns and templates; escalate exceptions with rationale and impact. Capture trade-offs and approvals in Architecture Decision Records (ADR).
• Participate in incident lifecycle; lead Root Cause Analysis (RCA) synthesis for Architecture as applicable
• Develop and document Proofs-of-Concept (PoC) to vet, test, and explain Architectural Designs; to act as reference code and support/unblock engineering teams
• Executive-ready polish of domain documentation (clear narrative, crisp diagrams, explicit risks/assumptions)
• Maintain hands-on involvement writing code for PoCs, creation of frameworks, packages, examples, etc.
• Schedule and conduct inter-team and intra-team Arch Design review sessions
• Participate in Development Team pull requests as-needed to ensure alignment with guidelines and practices.
• Author documentation (Architectural Designs, API Model Definitions, Data Models/Schemas, Swimlane Diagrams) & review documentation for completeness.
• Participate in / lead design reviews; record decisions as Architecture Decision Records (ADR)
• Create migration and technical-debt plans with milestones.
• Produce high-level multi-system diagrams & outlines (C4 , cross-system sequence flows, and swimlanes).

Required Skills & Experience

• A minimum of 6 years of experience as a Software Developer/Engineer or 2 years of experience as a Software Architect I working with .Net/C# on a daily basis.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and conceptual skills.
• Good grasp of software architecture principles including SOLID, Domain-Driven Design (DDD), and Clean Architecture.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines. This includes strong decision making and collaboration with Managers, Leads, Architects, Principals, and others to design/develop right-sized solutions accordingly.
• Strong understanding of current Microsoft development technologies. Strong understanding of surrounding technologies, cloud architecture and services, and other 3rd party tools and services relevant.
• Possess great organizational and self-managerial skills. Also be comfortable with priority shifting, focus shifting, as the business may dictate and rally the team to be flexible.
• Ability to anticipate potential problems and determine and implement solutions.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and drive through to the details.
• Strong English reading and writing communication skills, with an ability to express and understand complex technical concepts. As other languages are a requirement, that will be explicitly noted during the recruitment process.
• At least a BS/BA Degree in MIS, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

What makes you stand out:

• A demonstrable track record of developing scalable services and applications in fast-paced environments and supporting those projects in both Regional Production and Disaster Recovery environments.
• Hands-on experience working with technologies such as Redis, Kafka, EventHubs, Memcached.
• A mindset focused on performance, security, and maintainability.
• An understanding of event-driven architecture and distributed systems.
• Working knowledge of both SQL and NoSQL databases.
• A Confluent Certified Developer
• A Redis Certified Developer