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Step Up For Students · 2 weeks ago

Senior Architect, Software

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

7+ years exp

Step Up For Students is a nonprofit organization that empowers families to pursue appropriate learning options for their children. The Software Architect will be responsible for the technical design and implementation of software solutions, providing hands-on technical leadership to multiple software development teams while ensuring compliance with architecture, security, and performance standards.

AssociationEducationNon Profit

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and execute software solutions to accurately address business requirements as well as non-functional business requirements

Provide the development team with architectural blueprints, hands-on example driven help and mentoring

Remain plugged in to enterprise architecture and security groups to ensure our solutions remain compliant with emerging standards

Create high-level product specifications and multi-level design documents

Determine and execute on root cause for the most complex software issues and develop practical, efficient, and permanent technical solutions

Remain current on new technologies and available vendor packages; evaluate and make recommendations as necessary

Test and review system designs

Ensure strict adherence to enterprise standards and influence changes to such standards

Be champions of DevSecOps as well as delivery of top-tier quality and secure code

Be an enigmatic technologist who is looked upon as an SME equally by members of IT and business teams

When needed, facilitate Joint Application Design (JAD) sessions with cross functional teams of Engineers, Analysts, Product Owner, other business and technical stakeholders

Qualification

Software ArchitectureCloud InfrastructureAgile DevelopmentMicroservicesJavaScriptC#.Net CoreMS SQLAzureAnalytical SkillsConsultative MindsetLeadership SkillsCommunication Skills

Required

Demonstrated success and a proven track record of professional/life experience in specific job functions, projects, industries or military service can substitute for professional experience and/or formal education requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field

7+ years of technical leadership and software development experience

3+ years of proven experience in software architecture roles

Deep experience with modern Designing, Developing, and Maintaining Hosting Infrastructure (Cloud and Traditional) techniques and best-practices

Experience with current architectural patterns for high availability, performance, scale out architecture, disaster recovery, and security architecture

Ability to provide in-depth evaluation and analysis of unique complex technological issues and platforms

Knowledge of JavaScript, JQuery, HTML, HTML5, CSS, CSS3, Web Programming Skills, cross browser compatibility, Web User Interface Design (UI), Security Principles, Object-Oriented Design, Web Services (REST/SOAPAPI's), C#, .Net Core, MVC, MS SQL, Microservices, Azure Function Apps, Message Queuing

Knowledge of cloud-based architectures, deployment, and operational aspects of Azure and AWS cloud

Demonstrative Software development experience in an Agile / Dev Ops environment using MS AZURE with CI/CD

Proven ability to Partner with Product, Engineering, Program Management, Operations and other stakeholders to successfully launch and maintain complex products

Hands on experience and ability to develop and maintain end to end solution process flows at both high and detailed levels

Proven ability to understand what the technology needs to do and will zero in on and mitigate risks that may inhibit the technology delivering what the business needs

Experience implementing event- or message-driven distributed architectures

Experience planning and shipping complex software releases in an agile software development lifecycle

Leadership skills; experience being a mentor and support to Software Engineers

Excellent analytical skills, ability to understand complex business issues and translate to solutions based on both quantitative and qualitative analysis

Excellent communication skills in verbal, written, and presentation settings with a range of audiences both business and technical, individual contributor and leadership

Consultative mindset in order to bridge gap between technology feasibility with business needs

Benefits

Medical - HSA/FSA - Dental - Vision

Company Paid Disability - Life Insurance

401K Match - Tuition Reimbursement

Generous Time off Policy - Professional Development

Company

Step Up For Students

Step Up For Students helps administer two scholarships; one for economically disadvantaged students.

Founded in 2001

Jacksonville, Florida, USA

201-500 employees

https://www.stepupforstudents.org/

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