Software Architect (Solution Architect)

1 month ago

Pittsburgh, PA, USASenior

Responsibilities

Analyze and document business, functional, and non-functional requirements.
Create and maintain solution architecture artifacts, diagrams, design documentation, and decision records.
Evaluate technology alternatives, trade-offs, risks, dependencies, and impacts.
Ensure solution designs meet enterprise architecture, security, compliance, resilience, and operational standards.
Support architecture governance, design reviews, and approval processes.
Collaborate with business, product, engineering, infrastructure, platform, security, and operations teams to guide solution delivery.
Provide technical leadership and architectural oversight from concept through implementation and production support.
Define functional designs and application systems architecture across technologies and platforms.
Design application technical infrastructure, including databases, programming languages, utilities, and testing approaches.
Assess software defects identified during quality assurance and address enterprise platform and technology requirements.

Bachelor's degree.
Typically 5+ years of relevant industry experience.
Strong understanding of layered, event-driven, API-first, microservices, and cloud-native application architectures.
Experience with the software development lifecycle, Agile delivery, DevSecOps practices, and CI/CD pipelines.
Proficiency in application integration patterns, APIs, messaging, service orchestration, and enterprise application interoperability.
Experience producing solution, sequence, component, and deployment diagrams and technical specifications.
Knowledge of cloud platforms, containerization, orchestration, serverless technologies, and platform services.
Understanding of authentication, authorization, encryption, secrets management, and secure application design.
Knowledge of resiliency, availability, scalability, performance, maintainability, observability, and operational support considerations.
Ability to perform impact and dependency analysis, identify risks and trade-offs, and recommend architecture decisions.
Strong stakeholder management, facilitation, communication, analytical, problem-solving, and systems-thinking skills.
Comparable combinations of education, job-specific certifications, and experience, including military service, may be considered in lieu of a degree.
No required certifications or licenses.

Medical and prescription drug coverage with a Health Savings Account feature, dental and vision options, life insurance, and short- and long-term disability protection.
401(k) with company match, pension, stock purchase plans, dependent care reimbursement, and back-up child or elder care.
Adoption, surrogacy, doula reimbursement, educational assistance, and wellness programs with financial incentives.
Paid maternity and parental leave, up to 11 paid holidays, 9 occasional absence days, and 15 to 25 vacation days depending on career level and eligibility.
In-office work arrangement based in Pittsburgh, PA, or Dallas, TX.

10,000+ employees

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