Overview In this role you drive end-to-end solution architecture for complex programs, balancing hands-on coding with strategic direction. You'll shape scalable, secure platforms and guide delivery teams to align with modernization goals. You stay close to implementation through prototypes and design reviews, while enforcing engineering guardrails and operational readiness. The position combines technical leadership with hands-on delivery and occasional travel.
Compensation / Benefits- Medical, Dental, and Vision
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- Life Insurance and AD&D
- Short and Long-Term Disability
- HSA
- Transportation Benefits
Responsibilities- Own end-to-end solution architecture for a domain or major initiative, including data flows and non-functional requirements
- Define and govern architecture for large-scale, cross-platform systems
- Translate business goals into a pragmatic technical roadmap with product/engineering leadership
- Lead architecture and design reviews; document decisions, trade-offs, and guardrails
- Stay hands-on through prototypes, reference implementations, and spikes to mitigate risk
- Establish and enforce engineering standards across APIs, testing, CI/CD, and secure-by-default practices
- Embed operability by design: observability, resilience, runbooks, incident readiness
- Serve as technical escalation point and drive root cause analysis
- Contribute across the SDLC: estimation, design, and delivery
- Mentor senior engineers and emerging architects
- Support pre-sales with solution architecture and effort estimation
- Continuously evaluate and adopt new technologies and patterns
- Lead and mentor a team of architects to drive consistency and scalability
Key requirements- 15+ years of software development experience
- 12+ years of hands-on Java experience
- 5+ years of AWS experience
- 5+ years as a Practice Architect or Lead Architect
- Strong experience with Java frameworks (Spring, Spring Boot), REST, and microservices
- Experience designing distributed, highly available systems
- Experience with relational and NoSQL databases, messaging, and integration patterns
- Security, identity, compliance, and secure-by-default practices
- CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices with tools like Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions
- Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Mentoring and coaching
- Strong communication and technical credibility
- Ability to influence across teams
- Java, Spring/Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, microservices
- Distributed systems design and governance
- Relational and NoSQL databases, messaging
