IT Software Architect - .NET/Web
Nelnet, Inc.2 days ago
Centennial, CO, USASenior
Base Salary
$110k - $150k/yr
Responsibilities
- Provide architectural leadership across a portfolio of related applications and maintain technical alignment with application architects, site reliability engineers, and delivery teams.
- Establish architecture practices, design standards, reference patterns, shared design language, and architecture decision records.
- Consult with delivery teams by reviewing designs, facilitating decisions, and guiding pragmatic technical solutions.
- Improve developer experience by removing technology and process impediments and aligning infrastructure and platform roadmaps.
- Drive responsible adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices across development teams.
- Optimize application and platform costs, quantify and sequence technical-debt remediation, and include post-implementation cleanup in delivery plans.
- Provide architectural leadership during incident management and post-incident reviews.
- Align solution architecture with business drivers and NDS IT Delivery technology direction.
- Engage with Agile teams to deliver high-quality working software and pursue enterprise-wide architecture improvements.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.
- At least 6 years of software development experience with strong expertise in at least one key competency.
- 2 to 3 years of experience as a technical or development leader delivering medium- to large-scale technology solutions.
- Strong experience with Microsoft .NET frameworks, C#, ASP.NET, Microsoft IIS, web services, service-based architecture, message-based processing, relational databases, and full-stack development.
- Knowledge of secure development practices, NIST compliance, and preferably ISSO2.
- Experience with source control, CI/CD practices, architecture artifacts, ADRs, developer-experience practices, and build and deployment pipelines.
- Understanding of software development lifecycle practices, technical debt management, application and platform cost drivers, and application integration standards.
- Hands-on fluency with AI development tooling and experience driving adoption across engineering teams.
- Experience with collaboration tools such as JIRA, Confluence, and Microsoft Teams.
- Strong communication, analytical, relationship-building, business-context, and cross-organizational influence skills.
- US citizenship and ability to obtain a 6C Federal security clearance.
Benefits
- Hybrid work environment with a standard 3/2 in-office/work-from-home schedule for associates within 30 miles of an office, subject to manager discretion.
- Candidates are currently sought within 30 miles of Lincoln, Nebraska; Centennial, Colorado; Madison, Wisconsin; or Brownsville, Texas.
- Benefits include medical, dental, vision, HSA and FSA, earned time off, 401K/student loan repayment, life insurance, AD&D insurance, employee assistance, employee stock purchase, tuition reimbursement, incentive pay, disability coverage, and a wellness program.
Tech Stack
C#Microsoft SQL Server.NET
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About Nelnet, Inc.
Nelnet, Inc. is a publicly traded financial services and education technology company that serves students, families, schools, and government agencies through loan servicing, refinancing, and payment solutions. Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Lincoln, Nebraska, it also operates Nelnet Bank and multiple service divisions. Its Nelnet Business Services unit provides payment technology and education services to over 1,200 higher education institutions and nearly 12,000 K–12 schools.