Senior Software Architect

10 days ago

Pittsburgh, PA, USASenior

Responsibilities

Lead solution design and architecture reviews for software development initiatives.
Translate architectural direction into detailed designs and ensure solutions align with enterprise standards and governance requirements.
Partner with business and technology stakeholders to define scope, requirements, assumptions, dependencies, and constraints.
Design and evaluate system interactions, data flows, and integrations across applications and services.
Model business and system workflows and identify handoffs, failure points, and optimization opportunities.
Create and maintain architecture documentation, decision records, interface requirements, and other review-ready artifacts.
Support architecture governance, compliance assessments, vendor evaluations, selection processes, and RFP-related architecture reviews.
Consider customer-facing and employee-facing impacts across branch, care center, and digital channels.

3–5+ years of experience in requirements analysis, solution design, architecture governance, documentation, workflow modeling, and integration design.
Bachelor’s degree; a comparable combination of education, job-specific certifications, and experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
Knowledge of APIs, file-based integrations, event-driven architectures, streaming solutions, application interactions, and data flows.
Proficiency with Jira, Confluence, and diagramming tools such as Gliffy or equivalent solution-modeling tools.
Ability to communicate architecture decisions and tradeoffs to technical and non-technical audiences and collaborate with product, engineering, security, and enterprise architecture teams.
Cloud architecture awareness and familiarity with cloud migration, modernization, microservices, containers, streaming platforms, master data management, shared services, API integration, and batch processing are preferred.
Industry-relevant experience is typically 8+ years; higher education such as a master’s degree, PhD, or certifications is desirable.
No required certifications or licenses.

Medical and prescription drug coverage with a Health Savings Account feature, dental and vision options, life insurance, disability protection, 401(k) matching, pension, and stock purchase plans.
Dependent care reimbursement, backup child and elder care, adoption, surrogacy, and doula reimbursement, educational assistance, and wellness programs with financial incentives.
Paid maternity and/or parental leave, up to 11 paid holidays, 9 occasional absence days, and 15–25 vacation days depending on career level and eligibility.
The position is in-office and based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Dallas, Texas; or Birmingham, Alabama.

10,000+ employees

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