Software Architect

Job Title: Software Architect (Code Quality & Integration)

Location: Houston, TX (Onsite)

Duration: Long Term

Job Description:

The Client is Looking for candidates with strong experience in code quality practices, large-scale integrations, and establishing/enforcing development standards.

Code Review Leadership:

• Provides leadership in code reviews, setting expectations beyond standard participation
• Defines and reinforces best practice standards for code quality across teams
• Prioritizes review of critical paths and shared components to ensure system-wide reliability
• Enforces best practices including naming conventions, error handling, logging/observability, and security standards

Best Practices Ownership:

• Establishes and maintains coding standards and design patterns aligned with best practices
• Drives consistency through reusable frameworks and shared libraries
• Actively promotes and ensures adoption of standards across teams

Large-Scale Integration Expertise:

• Applies best practices when integrating across internal platforms and third-party systems
• Accounts for reliability, maintainability, and scalability in cross-system interactions

Governance and Guardrails:

• Implements review gates, coding standards, and automated quality checks
• Leverages CI/CD pipelines to enforce linting, security scanning, and test coverage requirements
• Defines and upholds clear criteria for code readiness prior to production deployment.

Essential Skills Required:

• Deep ability for evaluating large, complex codebases, identifying risks, inconsistencies, and improvement opportunities.
• Strong understanding of API, integration design and code change impacts.
• Shows a solid understanding of best practice coding techniques for managing failures in distributed systems, resulting in reliable and maintainable code.
• Defines practical, best practice coding standards that are widely followed and improve code consistency and quality
• Exhibits practical coding proficiency, enabling direct contribution when necessary.
• Exhibits sound judgment in accounting for cross-team and cross-product scaling impacts, including dependencies, integration points, and system stability
• Light amount of QA testing.