Software Architect

• Provide architectural leadership across the full software development lifecycle, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, resilient, and aligned with business and technology strategy.
• Collaborate with business, product, and technology stakeholders to translate requirements into comprehensive architectural designs, solution alternatives, and technical roadmaps.
• Mentor and coach software engineers and technical leads, promoting strong engineering discipline, design thinking, and continuous improvement.
• Define and govern application architecture standards, patterns, and best practices across both custom-developed and vendor-provided solutions.
• Review and approve solution designs, architecture diagrams, code, and integration specifications to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture principles.
• Lead enterprise automation strategy and implementation, identifying high-value opportunities and measuring outcomes such as cycle time reduction, error rates, cost savings, and user experience improvements.
• Architect and govern Robotic Process Automation (RPA) capabilities, including bot design standards, orchestration, security, credential management, and monitoring.
• Own architectural direction for the enterprise platform ecosystem, leveraging ServiceNow for standardized intake, workflow orchestration, CMDB alignment, and cross-platform integrations.
• Drive modernization of legacy applications through refactoring, re-platforming, or replacement to improve maintainability, scalability, and time to value.
• Develop and execute an AI adoption strategy that enhances developer productivity through responsible use of AI-assisted tools and automation.

The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in software architecture, a strong engineering background, and a proven ability to lead and mentor development teams., * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent experience., * 10+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 5 years in a senior technical leadership role (Software Architect, Lead Engineer, or Principal Engineer).

• Proven experience architecting and delivering production-grade applications, including knowledge of networking, identity, secrets management, and cost-efficient design.
• Strong background in modern architectural patterns, including modular monoliths and/or microservices, API-first design (REST/GraphQL), and event-driven systems (queues/streams).
• Demonstrated success implementing modern DevOps practices such as CI/CD, automated testing, infrastructure as code, and progressive delivery strategies (blue/green, canary, feature flags).
• Deep understanding of application security, including threat modeling, secure coding, encryption, authentication/authorization, and vulnerability management.
• Experience designing systems for reliability, including observability (logs, metrics, traces), performance optimization, incident response, and disaster recovery.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across product, security, infrastructure, and vendor teams, while clearly communicating architectural decisions.
• Proven track record of influencing technical direction through architecture artifacts such as diagrams, ADRs, and reference architectures.
• Experience leading enterprise automation initiatives with measurable business outcomes.
• Hands-on experience with RPA delivery and governance, as well as enterprise platforms such as ServiceNow for workflow orchestration and integrations.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to translate business needs into technical solutions and guide teams through change.