IT Senior Software Architect w/ AWS, C#, Python, Agile, Terraform, Kubernetes (Remote/Hybrid) id-9948

May 31, 2025

POSITION PURPOSE

The hands-on IT Software Architect serves on the IT Architecture Council, acting as the chief expert on topics relating to the Software Engineering practice. Leveraging their deep subject-matter expertise, the IT Software Architect serves as a key contributor in the development of new and reimagined application architectures. Along with their expert peers, the IT Software Architect develops, reviews, approves, and oversees all aspects relating to the architecture of the organization’s IT systems. The IT Software Architect applies their hands-on expert software engineering skills to projects, initiatives, and challenges as required.

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ESSENTIAL DUTIES

Prioritizes effectively: architecture strategy/design, application software development, and business alignment

Approaches new initiatives/projects/problems with a big-picture mindset while having the technical depth to solution the most complex technology problems

Studies information needs, systems flow, design, data usage, work processes, and investigates problem areas as required

Define Agile architecture that considers other system factors as critical architectural concerns, such as test architecture and test data management

Fosters a DevOps culture by ensuring that the Solutions are architected for continuous delivery

Strives for consistency and cohesion in the design to maintain the system’s quality

Leads the ideation and definition/redefinition/optimization for the comprehensive IT architecture of internally developed software systems

Defines a set of purposeful, planned architectural strategies and initiatives that enhance solution design, performance, data integration, usability, guiding cross-team design and synchronized implementation

Determines operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions

Champions and pitches ideas/solutions using highly effective communications tactics

Distills the essentials of complex technology solutions into business language through presentations, architecture diagrams, etc. to demonstrate with clarity how the subject of the discussion is addressed with the recommended solution(s)

Seeks and achieves peer and leadership buy-in to deliver results

Values, respects, and stimulates team opinions and engagement

Provides technical leadership to team and department members. Leads through example; mentors, influences and trains others. Provides input to supervisor and helps to identify development needs.

Leads the way for developers while collaborating with designers and product owners to develop new features consistent with product roadmap

Be willing to adapt and evolve the design as the system is developed

Performs other duties as assigned or required

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Computer Science or related area

10+ years of professional software engineering experience with a deep understanding of software architecture principles, patterns, and best practices

Familiarity with various programming languages, frameworks, and tools

Expert-level skills in the following technologies/concepts

Hands-on, full lifecycle software engineering in:

JSON

Python

AWS services portfolio, including but not limited to:

Agile

DevSecOps

SDLC and governance best practices

Visual Studio

Data management

Test automation

REST API

Database systems (DynamoDB, RDS)

Terraform

Kubernetes

Infrastructure as Code systems

Data integration (SQS, SNS, EventBridge)

Serverless/microservice architectures

Advanced-level skills in the following technologies/concepts:

Resiliency/Disaster Recovery

Cloud security concepts (secure code, pipeline security, IAM, IDS/IPS, network security/firewall, data protection, compliance)

Monitoring/alerting

Scalability, performance, and systems capacity planning/projecting

ADDITIONAL KNOWLEDGE, EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE PREFERRED

Azure DevOps and Git

Entity Framework and/or SQLAlchemy

MS SQL and PostgreSQL

React and TypeScript

ASP.NET

HTML/XML/CSS/JavaScript

Apple Swift Development (Xcode, SwiftUI, and UIKit)

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an associate encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

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