Senior Architect

• Designs and maintains enterprise-level architecture spanning multiple platforms, domains, and business capabilities, ensuring individual system designs composed into a coherent whole.
• Translates business strategy and capability needs into target-state architectures, transition roadmaps, and sequencing plans that engineering teams can execute against.
• Owns reference architectures, patterns, and enterprise standards for a set of domains, drives their adoption across delivery teams, and leads the design review and governance forums that uphold them.
• Defines integration and data architecture across systems, including API strategy, event and messaging patterns, master data ownership, and system-of-record boundaries.
• Assesses the current-state landscape to identify redundancy, technical debt, and integration gaps, then recommends rationalization, modernization, or build-versus-buy paths with cost, risk, and operational trade-offs made explicit.
• Works hands-on in the codebase and in infrastructure as needed: prototypes and proves out architectural approaches, builds reference implementations and shared libraries, and contributes production code alongside delivery teams.
• Implements and improves DevOps capability directly, including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, containerization, and observability, rather than only specifying how they should work.
• Steps into delivery and incident response where architectural depth is the bottleneck, including debugging cross-system failures, performance profiling, and remediation.
• Partners with security, privacy, and compliance functions so architectures meet regulatory, resilience, and data-protection requirements by design.
• Guides and mentors development teams, solution and platform architects, and senior engineers, through architectural direction, design review, and code review.
• Creates and maintains enterprise architecture documentation (e.g., C4, capability models, domain and system landscape maps, ADRs) and keeps it current as systems evolve.
• Other duties as assigned.

What you've accomplished

• Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field, or commensurate experience.
• 5+ years in system design and software delivery, with 3+ years in an enterprise, solution, or domain architecture role operating across multiple teams or platforms.
• Practical fluency with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., coding assistants and agentic development environments) as part of day-to-day delivery, with sound judgment about where they accelerate work, where they introduce risk, and how their output must be reviewed.
• Currently hands-on: recent, direct experience writing and shipping production code and building or operating CI/CD and cloud infrastructure, not solely oversight of others doing so.
• Demonstrated experience defining target-state architectures and multi-quarter transition roadmaps that were actually delivered against.
• Strong understanding of software design patterns and architectural principles (e.g., 12 Factor, SOLID, DDD, EDA, SOA, microservices) and sound judgment about when each applies.
• Working knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks and capability modeling (e.g., TOGAF, ArchiMate, business capability maps), applied pragmatically rather than ceremonially.
• Extensive experience with the AWS cloud platform, including cost, resilience, and multi-account or multi-region considerations.
• Practical competency with CI/CD pipelines, containerization and infrastructure as code at a level sufficient to build and debug them independently. This includes Kubernetes (EKS), Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD, Grafana / Prometheus
• Proficiency in multiple programming languages with at least one being OOP (e.g., Golang, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Strong competency in databases (SQL/NoSQL), data modeling, and data flow across system boundaries, specifically with MongoDB and PostgreSQL databases.
• Expertise in API design and integration architecture, including REST, event-driven and streaming patterns, and contract and versioning strategy.
• Demonstrated experience creating and maintaining architectural documentation (e.g., UML, C4, ADRs) for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Demonstrated capability in technical leadership, mentoring, facilitating cross-team collaboration, and influencing decisions without direct authority.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to move between executive-level framing and deep technical detail.
• Active or prior U.S. security clearance, or eligibility to obtain one.

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