Software Architect

InComm Payments

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Define and maintain enterprise software architecture standards, patterns, and reference implementations.
Lead design and architecture reviews for strategic initiatives and platform modernization efforts.
Partner with development, DevOps, QA, and security teams to implement scalable and secure engineering practices.
Establish architectural guidance for cloud-native applications, APIs, microservices, and event-driven solutions.
Drive adoption of CI/CD pipelines, automated quality gates, observability, and software delivery best practices.
Evaluate emerging technologies, AI-enabled engineering solutions, and automation capabilities to improve developer productivity.
Develop reusable frameworks, templates, and architectural accelerators that increase delivery consistency across teams.
Collaborate with business and technology leaders to align technical strategy with organizational objectives.
Mentor engineers and technical leads through architecture reviews, technical coaching, and engineering communities of practice.
Support production reliability, scalability, performance optimization, and operational readiness initiatives.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline.
10+ years of software development experience with at least 3–5 years in an architecture or technical leadership role.
Strong experience designing and implementing distributed systems, APIs, microservices, and cloud-native applications.
Hands-on expertise with Azure cloud services, including architecture, security, monitoring, and scalability.
Proficiency with modern development platforms and languages such as.NET/C#, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, or similar technologies.
Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines, DevSecOps practices, infrastructure automation, and quality engineering frameworks.
Strong understanding of software design patterns, domain-driven design, event-driven architecture, and system integration strategies.
Experience designing solutions that meet security, compliance, availability, performance, and resiliency requirements.
Demonstrated ability to communicate architecture decisions and technical strategy to both technical and executive audiences.
Proven experience mentoring engineers and driving engineering excellence across multiple teams.

Experience with enterprise test automation frameworks and quality engineering practices.
Experience with Kubernetes, container platforms, and infrastructure-as-code.
Familiarity with AI-assisted software development and engineering productivity tools.
Experience defining engineering metrics, SLOs, observability, and reliability practices.
Relevant cloud or architecture certifications (Azure Solutions Architect, TOGAF, etc.).

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