Business Architect (part-time contract)
Applaudo Studios6 hours ago
Remote, Guatemala or Guatemala City, GuatemalaSenior
Responsibilities
- Lead discovery sessions and translate business needs into architecture proposals, non-functional requirements, and technical roadmaps.
- Design scalable, resilient, secure, and cost-effective solutions for high-volume data and media workloads.
- Assess technology landscapes and identify risks related to support lifecycles, capacity, security, and modernization.
- Evaluate architectural options and justify technical decisions, trade-offs, and budgets to clients and stakeholders.
- Create and maintain solution diagrams, architecture decision records, technical specifications, and disaster recovery documentation.
- Collaborate on release and quality processes, including change-risk classification, rollback and backup strategies, and change approvals.
- Communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders in Spanish and English and share project knowledge across the team.
- Identify process improvements and business opportunities aligned with organizational objectives.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field is desired, or equivalent professional experience.
- 5+ years of hands-on software development experience, including 2+ years in technical leadership or solution architecture.
- Backend architecture experience with .NET or an equivalent enterprise stack.
- Cloud architecture experience with Azure, including application services, databases, data pipelines, networking, and security.
- Experience designing distributed and service-oriented architectures involving APIs, integrations, and messaging.
- Knowledge of data architecture, relational databases, performance, archiving, and retention.
- Experience with CI/CD and code quality practices using Azure DevOps or Jenkins and static analysis.
- Knowledge of Agile methodologies, software testing strategy, and software development and design patterns.
- Ability to document architecture and justify technical decisions and budgets to clients.
- Strong persuasive communication, analytical skills, and a preventive approach to technology risk management.
- Spanish and English communication skills.
Benefits
- Part-time contractor model of 22 hours per week.
- Initial contract period of 3 months with the possibility of extension.
About Applaudo Studios
Applaudo Studios provides nearshore software engineering and AI consulting to enterprises, delivering product design, custom development, cloud, and data services from Latin America. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Salvador, the privately held firm builds and operates web, mobile, and enterprise systems and supports digital transformation initiatives. Clients engage Applaudo for AI assessments and implementation, scalable delivery teams, and ongoing DevOps and QA support.