2 months ago
Base Salary
$190k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve enterprise target-state architectures across application, data, integration, infrastructure, and security domains.
- Create architecture roadmaps, standards, principles, patterns, and reference architectures aligned with business strategy.
- Lead architecture reviews and guide teams through major design decisions, trade-offs, modernization, and migration efforts.
- Evaluate application, data, infrastructure, platform, and emerging technology options, prioritizing pragmatic buy-and-integrate decisions where appropriate.
- Enable cloud-native, event-driven, API-first, secure, scalable, resilient, observable, and supportable solutions.
- Reduce technical debt, complexity, duplication, architectural risk, and long-term technology costs.
- Define architecture health metrics and communicate the impact of architecture initiatives to organizational and executive stakeholders.
- Document and govern the use of AI technologies such as Codex and Claude in architectural practices.
- Mentor Solution Architects and senior engineers and directly manage and develop 1–3 architects.
- Partner with business and technology leaders on vendor selection, M&A, budgeting, forecasting, and technology investment decisions.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- 7+ years of experience in software engineering, systems design, or architecture roles.
- 3+ years of experience operating at an enterprise or platform-wide architecture level.
- Experience defining target-state architectures and technology roadmaps.
- Strong experience with cloud-based, distributed, and modern software architectures.
- Experience working in agile and product-oriented delivery environments.
- Ability to influence senior technical leaders and executives.
- Experience modernizing complex, mission-critical systems.
- Strong understanding of security, data architecture, and integration patterns.
- Ability to navigate ambiguity, drive clarity, and focus on pragmatic business outcomes.
Benefits
- Full medical, dental, and vision benefits at no cost to the employee.
- Four weeks of paid time off and nine paid float holidays.
- Five-week sabbatical after five years of employment.
- Monthly bonuses and Restricted Stock Units for eligible employees, with new-hire grants vesting over four years.
- Pet medical insurance for one dog or cat.
- Paid time off for volunteering at nonprofit organizations.
- Open, casual, pet-friendly office environment with a free on-site gym, dog walking services, free parking, and paid ORCA cards.
- Open across the United States, with a preference for Seattle or East Coast time zones; Seattle employees work hybrid with at least three office days per week.
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