Technical Software Architect

Technical Software Architect

Department Overview: The Solution Engineering department plays a critical role in supporting the company's software development, infrastructure, security, and DevOps functions. The team is responsible for ensuring that all technical solutions align with long-term business objectives and follow best practices in software engineering. Through close collaboration with engineering teams and business stakeholders, the department enables incremental development toward the company's enterprise architecture goals while maintaining high standards for security, scalability, and performance.

Job Overview: We are seeking an experienced and highly technical Software Architect to design, guide, and evolve scalable software systems that support business growth and innovation. The Technical Software Architect will play a key role in defining architectural standards, driving technical strategy, and collaborating closely with engineering, PMO/TPA, and leadership teams to deliver reliable, secure, and high-performing solutions.

This role requires deep hands-on technical expertise, strong system design skills, and the ability to mentor engineering teams while ensuring architectural integrity across the system.

Job Details

What you'll do:

Document system evolution

• Maintain and create a myriad of C4, ADR, RAID, and Confluence documentation.

Partner with engineering teams

• Mentor engineers and support teams, in patterns involving testing, Micro Frontends, Modular Monolith, etc.
• Lead architectural decision-making, co=ordination across project teams.

Prototype and design

• Build sample applications, systems, etc. to show how to execute given technologies.
• Applications to express solutions to business and engineering.

Triage and validate

• Sort through issues as they come up leveraging the collective engineering team to source solutions.
• Ensure our code stays aligned with our patterns and practices.

Drive technical strategy and standards

• Define and evolve architectural principles, standards, and guardrails that align engineering efforts with long-term business objectives.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and make recommendations that balance innovation, risk, cost, and maintainability.

Job Requirements

Who you are:

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 7+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 2+ years in an architecture or technical leadership role.
• Strong expertise in system design, distributed systems, and modern software development practices.
• Proficiency with one or more programming languages such as Java, C#, Python, or JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Experience designing cloud-based architectures (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud).
• Knowledge of microservices, APIs, event-driven architecture, and integration patterns.
• Strong understanding of database technologies (SQL and NoSQL).
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Excellent communication and technical documentation skills, and ability to work cross-functionally.

Desired:

• C4 documentation experience

Communication during the recruitment process regarding interview requests or job offers will come directly from a recruiting team member with a silacins.com email address.