Architect V

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Massachusetts.

📋 Description

• Define and uphold strategies for enterprise, platform, and solution architecture.

• Create target-state architectures and technology roadmaps that align with business objectives.

• Lead architectural reviews and oversee governance for significant technical projects.

• Ensure consistency in architectural patterns, engineering standards, and design principles.

• Assess emerging technologies and suggest strategies for their adoption.

• Propel modernization efforts, including cloud adoption, platform evolution, AI integration, scalability enhancements, and reduction of technical debt.

• Establish a long-term technical vision while prioritizing fundamental investments.

• Design comprehensive solutions for intricate business and technical challenges.

• Produce architecture diagrams, integration models, data flows, and system designs.

• Evaluate critical design decisions concerning security, reliability, performance, and maintainability.

• Assist teams in balancing business needs with technical limitations.

• Collaborate with Product Management to synchronize technology investments with strategic goals.

• Partner with Engineering leaders to ensure successful execution of architectural initiatives.

• Work alongside Security, Infrastructure, and Operations teams to guarantee compliance and operational excellence.

• Facilitate architectural decision-making across various teams and stakeholders.

• Advocate for best practices in software development, cloud architecture, observability, resiliency, and automation.

• Establish architecture standards, reference architectures, and design patterns.

• Lead technical design reviews and govern architectural processes.

• Promote continuous enhancement of engineering practices.

• Mentor senior engineers, technical leads, and architects.

• Cultivate technical talent and enhance architectural competencies across teams.

• Influence organizational decisions through technical knowledge and thought leadership.

• Foster a culture centered on innovation, quality, and accountability.

• Operate across multiple teams, products, or platforms.

• Provide architectural governance for high-impact projects and strategic investments.

• Act as a subject matter expert and reliable technical advisor.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

• 12+ years of experience in software engineering.

• 5+ years in architecture, principal engineer, or equivalent senior technical leadership positions.

• Extensive expertise in distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, APIs, integration patterns, and data architecture.

• Experience in designing highly scalable, mission-critical software platforms.

• Strong comprehension of security, reliability, performance, and operational excellence.

• Proven capacity to influence technical direction across various teams without direct authority.

• Preferred: experience in modernizing legacy platforms into cloud-native architectures.

• Preferred: familiarity with Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud technologies.

• Preferred: experience with SaaS platforms at an enterprise scale.

• Preferred: familiarity with AI/ML platforms, agentic systems, and modern engineering productivity tools.

• Preferred: architecture certifications or advanced technical credentials.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance.

• Retirement savings plan with company matching.

• Paid time off and holidays.

• Opportunities for professional development.

• Performance-based bonuses contingent on position.

• Additional rewards, including an annual bonus and sales incentives, subject to the relevant plan, role, and individual performance.