Application Architect

About the Team

The Application Architect on our team is an independent problem solver who is responsible for setting technical direction, creating the design of new architecture, modernizing legacy architecture, and ensuring the successful implementation of the full stack of our applications. This individual works closely with all members of the Scrum Team to ensure the code we implement and release is of the highest quality, thoroughly tested, and meets the needs of our end users.

How you'll make an impact

Be a great teammate and leader:

• Exemplify what it means to champion a modern technical strategy that drives business outcomes
• Excite the development engineering teams with your passion around new technology trends and guide them in their learning
• Communicate effectively, clearly, and thoroughly to various audiences, both technical and non-technical
• Have fun with our team and enjoy coming to work

• Design and oversee the development of comprehensive software architecture solutions, ensuring alignment with business objectives and industry best practices
• Communicate technical concepts and solutions effectively to stakeholders and project teams to ensure a common understanding of the overall solution
• Create detailed technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, data flow diagrams, and system specifications
• Review architectural design with other architects to create awareness and collect feedback
• Engage with the development teams as they adopt and implement your design, provide coaching and consulting
• Design POCs, pair program if necessary, keeping your coding skills fresh and building team relationships
• Identify areas needing technical or process improvements and see them through to resolution

• Obtain a deep understanding of our business domain and products and use this knowledge to support technical decision making
• Work closely with stakeholders from various business units to understand their requirements and priorities
• Answer questions about the products and its codebase

• A BS in an engineering field
• 8+ years of development experience
• Experience with AWS cloud-native technologies and modern distributed system technologies
• A demonstrable working understanding of ASP.net and Angular or other modern front-end technologies
• Fluent in C# and T-SQL, and adaptable to other languages
• Experience creating design for new products as well as improving existing products
• Experience with microservices architectures, containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), messaging architectures, and serverless computing
• Experience decomposing monolithic architectures to modern micro-service and layered architectures