Sr Applications Architect

We are seeking an experienced Application Architect to design, guide, and govern complex, scalable application systems across multiple product lines. This role partners closely with engineering, product, security, and infrastructure teams to ensure software solutions are robust, maintainable, and aligned with long-term business and technical strategy.

The ideal candidate combines deep software engineering expertise with strong architectural judgment, and can influence teams without direct authority.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and evolve application architecture standards across distributed, cloud-native systems

• Design scalable, secure, and highly available application architectures for web, API, and service-based platforms

• Partner with engineering teams to translate business requirements into technical designs and reference architectures

• Review system designs, code patterns, and technical proposals to ensure alignment with architectural principles

• Guide technology selection, framework adoption, and integration strategies

• Ensure architectures meet non-functional requirements (performance, reliability, security, observability, cost)

• Collaborate with infrastructure and platform teams on cloud, container, and deployment strategies

• Influence technical roadmaps and drive architectural consistency across teams

• Identify technical debt and propose pragmatic modernization strategies

• Serve as a technical mentor to senior engineers and technical leads

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience

• 3+ years in a solution, application, or systems architecture role

• Strong experience designing distributed systems and service-oriented or microservices architectures

• Proficiency in one or more modern programming languages (e.g., Java, C#, Go, Python, TypeScript)

• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and cloud-native design patterns

• Strong understanding of APIs, data models, messaging, and integration patterns

• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes or equivalent)

• Ability to articulate architectural trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience operating at scale in large, complex engineering environments

• Knowledge of security, identity, and compliance considerations in application design

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and release automation

• Background in performance optimization, resiliency, and fault-tolerant design

• Exposure to domain-driven design, event-driven architectures, or platform engineering

• Experience influencing architecture across multiple teams or product areas, All applicants applying for U.S. job openings must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Benefits are available to contract/temporary professionals, including medical, vision, dental, and life and disability insurance. Hired contract/temporary professionals are also eligible to enroll in our company 401(k) plan. Visit roberthalf.gobenefits.net for more information.

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