Software Architect

AbleForce - Software Architect

Please, no third parties.There is no relocation assistance or employment sponsorship available. Main Duties & Responsibilities:- Work closely with technical leadership and engineering teams to build highly scalable platforms using modern design principles and technologies.- Play an integral role assessing, mitigating risk, and improving the architectures of existing applications and platforms.- Lead the architectural vision for large-scale platforms and integrations leveraging modern technology stacks, with a core focus on scalability and performance.- Collaborate with product and engineering stakeholders to design and build platform services that meet key product and infrastructure requirements.- Produce both high-level and detailed designs for platform-level services.- Develop clean, scalable, modular, secure, well-structured and testable code.- Define patterns and develops reusable components and libraries.- Design and implement microservices with thoughtfully-defined APIs.- Take ownership of designed services and platform components through to delivery.- Clearly communicate architectural decisions, roadblocks and timelines to key stakeholders.- Mentor and lead teams of software engineers, UX resources, database resources, etc.- Reviews application- and service-level code and provide feedback and guidance to engineering team during implementation.Skills & Experience- 8+ total years of enterprise software engineering experience and 3+ years in a formal software architecture role.- Experience with Node.js and/or React.- Proven success conceptualizing end-to-end system components across a wide range of technologies and translate into architectural design patterns for implementation.- Experience with most or all of the following: DevOps, AWS, Azure, CI/CD, Angular, Python, C#, Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka.- Bachelors Degree or higher in Computer Science or related field is highly preferred.- A broad range of skills and technical capabilities rooted in proven product experience using modern architectural patterns and technologies.- Extensive experience collaborating with engineering, product and other business units to design, build, and deliver cloud-based SaaS products.- Experience with at least one type of queuing or messaging system (Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS, etc.).- Experience with at least one RDBMS (SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, RDS, etc.).- Experience with at least one document-oriented DB system (MongoDB and/or CouchDB preferred).- Experience using, designing, and building service-oriented architectures using Web Service, Restful APIs, etc.- Experience with DB schema/document design and data modeling.- Experience with containerization and orchestration.- Fluency with the full software development lifecycle (SDLC) using Agile methodologies.- Extensive understanding of modern architectural styles, design patterns, and best practices.- Experience with service-oriented architecture (SOA), including web services and APIs. tags: software architect, solutions architect, solution architect, system architect, systems architect, .net architect, .net developer, azure architect, cloud architect, software engineer, web application developer, web applications developer