Business Architect (part-time contract)
Applaudo Studios6 hours ago
Remote, Americas 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, identify risks such as end-of-support, capacity, and security concerns, and propose modernization plans.
- Evaluate solution options and justify technical decisions and budgets using detailed trade-off analysis.
- 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 approval.
- Communicate proposals and architectural decisions to technical and non-technical stakeholders in Spanish and English.
- Share project knowledge across the team and identify process improvements and business opportunities aligned with business 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 and 2+ years of technical leadership or solution architecture experience.
- 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 with distributed and service-oriented architectures, APIs, integrations, and messaging.
- Knowledge of data architecture, relational databases, performance, archiving, and retention.
- Experience with Azure DevOps or Jenkins, static analysis, and code quality practices.
- 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, risk identification, and risk mitigation skills.
- Bilingual communication skills in Spanish and English.
Benefits
- Part-time contractor model at 22 hours per week.
- Initial three-month contract 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.