Technical Architect

Lead Architecture & Design: Lead end-to-end architecture, integration strategy, and technical governance for an AI-powered enterprise platform using .NET, Angular, Azure, and Azure OpenAI.

• Hands-on Leadership: Provide approx. 30% hands-on work, including proofs of concept, reference implementations, architecture validation, and code reviews.
• AI & Integration Expertise: Architect solutions involving LLMs, RAG, Agentic AI, Azure services, and integrations with ServiceNow, Azure DevOps, and other enterprise systems.
• Define & Enforce Standards: Establish coding, architecture, security, scalability, AI governance, accessibility, and automated quality gates.
• Solution Design: Design for performance, high availability, disaster recovery, cost optimization, security, and resilience.
• Documentation: Create and maintain architecture documents, diagrams, decision records, and reference implementations.
• Team Leadership: Mentor developers, lead code reviews, enforce pull-request quality gates, and participate in technical interviews.
• DevOps Pipeline: Design Azure DevOps pipeline strategies, including CI/CD, static analysis, automated testing, security scans, and regression testing.
• Technical Debt Management: Identify and recommend plans for technical debt paydown and lead root-cause analysis for design issues.
• Stakeholder Communication: Present architecture decisions and recommendations to business and technical stakeholders.

Required Experience: 12+ years in software development (5+ as architect), production experience with .NET, Angular, Azure, AI integrations, microservices, REST APIs, and enterprise security practices.

• Preferred Experience: Utilities/energy industry background, legacy modernization, ServiceNow, DevOps automation, AI coding assistants, and advanced cloud/security certifications.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience); advanced Azure/cloud/architecture certifications preferred.
• Success Metrics: Timely publication and adoption of standards, operational delivery pipelines with quality gates, successful integrations, and active technical debt management.

Note: Local candidates with utilities experience preferred. On-site interview required. No H1B candidates.