Principal Architect
About InvoiceCloud:
InvoiceCloud is a fast-growing fintech company with an award-winning culture and a leading disruptor in the electronic bill presentment and payment (EBPP) space. Serving more than 3,200 customers across the utility, government, and insurance industries, InvoiceCloud’s secure and innovative SaaS platform enhances the customer experience, driving higher digital payment, AutoPay, and paperless adoption rates. By switching to InvoiceCloud, clients can improve customer engagement and satisfaction while lowering costs, accelerating payments, and reducing staff workloads. To learn more, visit InvoiceCloud.com.
Principal SW, Architect– Scorecard
Mission
Invoice Cloud is a rapidly growing SaaS company delivering industry-leading electronic bill presentment and payment (EBPP) provider. Our platform serves thousands of businesses and millions of customers, processing hundreds of millions of transactions annually. To support this growth and drive innovation, we are seeking a Principal Software Architect who combines deep technical expertise with strong leadership skills to shape the future of our architecture and engineering practices.
This role is part of the Engineering Architecture Technology Group (VP & Architects, Distinguished Engineers, SMEs) and reports to the VP of Engineering Architecture. This role requires significant influence across engineering teams and leadership circles. The ideal candidate is a visionary but hands-on technologist who thrives on solving complex business problems, mentoring teams, and driving enterprise-wide architectural transformation.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership
- Define and evangelize architectural standards, patterns, and best practices that enable scalability, security, and innovation.
- Act as a thought leader for technology strategy, influencing senior executives and engineering leaders.
- Lead architecture reviews and provide guidance to senior engineers and cross-functional teams.
- Partner with product and engineering leadership to align architecture with business priorities and growth objectives.
Technical Ownership
- Design and deliver architecture blueprints and reference implementations for critical initiatives.
- Drive adoption of forward-thinking practices such as microservices, event-driven architectures, cloud-native solutions and agentic frameworks.
- Champion DevSecOps, CI/CD, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices across engineering squads.
- Ensure security and compliance are embedded in all solutions (HIPAA, PCI, SOC 2).
- Foster a technical culture that drives high ambition, accountability, and desire to make an impact.
Execution & Delivery
- Plan and execute assigned project initiatives with measurable outcomes.
- Actively participate in implementation, ensuring high-quality, timely delivery in a fast-paced environment.
- Foster a culture of lean Agile practices, continuous improvement, and technical excellence.
- Support & participate in deployments
- Be the connective tissue between the cross functional engineering teams for architectural matters.
- Ensure the scrum teams understand and adopt the architectural vision, standards and guidelines.
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Ongoing
- Influence enterprise-wide engineering and architecture practices.
- Enable high-performance engineering teams through mentorship and technical leadership.
- Drive next-generation architectural patterns for microservices, integration platforms, and infrastructure as code.
Competencies
- Strategic thinking and execution
- Technical leadership and mentoring
- Influencing without authority
- Stakeholder management and communication
- Problem-solving and decision-making
- Emotional intelligence and collaboration
- Change leadership in high-growth environments
Who We Seek
- 20 years of enterprise software engineering experience with proven success in architecture transformations.
- Strong background in financial services or FinTech (payments, banking, lending preferred).
- Expertise in distributed systems, microservices, cloud-native architectures, and event-driven design.
- Deep understanding of Agile delivery, CI/CD, DevSecOps, and automated testing practices.
- Hands-on experience with:
- .NET (C#, ASP.NET MVC/WebAPI), Python and modern JavaScript frameworks (React, Angular)
- SQL Server, T-SQL, and related data platforms
- Azure DevOps, GitHub, and major cloud providers (Azure preferred)
- Infrastructure-as-Code tools (Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet)
- Familiarity with AI frameworks and tools such as Semantic Kernel, Azure OpenAI, and LangChain.
- Familiarity with security and compliance frameworks (HIPAA, PCI, SOC 2).
- Exceptional communication and leadership skills with ability to influence at all levels.
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Perks and Benefits
Health and Wellness
Parental Benefits
Work Flexibility
Office Life and Perks
Vacation and Time Off
Financial and Retirement
Professional Development
Diversity and Inclusion