Software Architect

We are seeking an experienced and motivated Software Architect to lead the design and delivery of large-scale product and solution development initiatives. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in .NET, C#, SQL, and cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure. This role requires a balance of technical expertise, strategic planning, and leadership to drive architectural excellence and innovation across projects. Key Responsibilities: Technical Leadership: • Provide technical leadership by analyzing business processes, applications, architecture, and infrastructure to identify pain points and recommend improvements. • Lead technical discussions with internal and external stakeholders, creating and analyzing architecture diagrams, code, and data for actionable insights. • Writing technical specifications based on business requirements for new features. • Offer coaching and guidance across all levels of the organization, motivating teams to achieve shared goals. Including technical code reviews and coaching based on best practices. • Mentor technical associates to enhance the team’s technical skills, foster a collaborative culture, and sustain engagement. Architectural Design and Road Mapping: • Analyze systems across business processes, applications, databases, and infrastructure. Document current states and build future-state architectural roadmaps across all tiers. • Develop artifacts representing current and future state system architecture, including visualization, database, and application layers. • Identify opportunities to enhance performance, stability, capacity, and resiliency of systems, architecture, databases, and processes, considering associated costs and risks. Platform and Process Optimization: • Design and implement robust microservices leveraging .NET, JavaScript, TypeScript, Angular, AWS, and PostgreSQL. • Optimize deployment strategies by leveraging physical, virtual, and cloud environments to meet performance and scalability needs. • Identify and implement improvements to ensure system capacity, performance, and operational excellence. Operational Proficiencies: • Optimize Resource Utilization: Analyze infrastructure usage and application performance to recommend cost-effective solutions and improvements. • Implement Best Practices: Advocate and enforce industry standards for software development, deployment, and maintenance to enhance operational excellence. • Collaborate with DevOps Teams: Partner with DevOps to automate deployments, CI/CD pipelines, and incident management workflows. • Risk Mitigation and Recovery: Identify potential operational risks and design fail-safe architectures and disaster recovery strategies. • Documentation and Training: Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for systems, and train teams on operational protocols and tools. • Support Cross-Team Communication: Act as a liaison between technical teams and operational stakeholders to align priorities and objectives. Required Skills: • At least 12-15 years of technical experience in software development. • At least 5 years of experience with full lifecycle development using Agile methodologies, including technical leadership for an Agile team. • Proven ability to guide complex projects from initial concepts to successful launch. • Expertise in .NET, C#, SQL, and cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure. JD Template for Software Architect - .NET • Strong ability to communicate technical knowledge effectively to clients, stakeholders, and cross functional teams. • Knowledge of business operations, terminology, and communication standards. • Excellent analytical, design, and troubleshooting skills. Preferred Skills: • Experience in developing and deploying scalable, secure, and highly available solutions in cloud environments. • Hands-on experience with architecture frameworks and automation tools. • Strong understanding of standardization, security, and regulatory compliance in solution design ... (truncated, view full listing at source)