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# Principal Software Architect

- **Company:** loanDepot
- **Location:** Irvine, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Application Performance Management, Microsoft Azure, C Sharp (Programming Language), Software as a Service, Machine Learning, Software Architecture, Software Engineering, SQL Databases, Data Streaming, Enterprise Software Applications, Cloud Platform System, Large Language Models, Microservices
- **Published:** October 20, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/23_36B9668A54DE298578D7750F40129139

## About the Role

Influences peers to adopt program and projects to achieve efficiencies, has the "final" responsibility to resolve any application/technology issue in their area(s) of competence.Works well across time zones and with 3rd party resources.Requirements:Bachelor's degree preferred, and/or a minimum of ten (10) + years in software architecture/large-scale systems with five (5) + years depth in at least one business-critical domain (e.g., cloud platform, microservices, data/streaming, AI/ML).Mortgage/FinServ experience preferred (SOX/SOC2/GLBA familiarity).Minimum five (5) + years' experience in an identified business critical technology.

## Description

Software ArchitectPosition Summary: Responsible for providing deep expertise and thought leadership in architectural guidance, governance and value generation in one or more areas of business-critical technology.
Some examples include microservice design and implementation, cloud design, cloud application enablement, cloud agnostic strategies and delivery models including containers/AKS. Other sub specializations include, but are not limited to, Artificial Intelligence LLMs and Machine Learning, Asynchronous Application Design Patterns, Observability, Application Performance Management and Self-Healing Applications.Responsibilities:Leads technical strategy and produces reference implementations, tooling, and abstractions that accelerate teams (?40-60% hands-on POCs/prototyping) in their area of expertise.Embed with teams for complex/novel initiatives to remove blockers and land critical designs in production.Provides input on policies and procedures to ensure that policies adequately govern the risk while still enabling value generation.Within their area(s) of expertise, maintains and extends the enterprise applications knowledgebase containing standards, templates and guidance for engineering
teams.Introduce and scale new platform capabilities deliberately (experiments ? pilots ? guard railed rollout) with adoption plans and training.Establishes, communicates, and leads the adoption of enterprise application development standards and best practices across the enterprise.