Sr. Software Architect

Exceed the expectations of our residential mortgage borrowers & business partners through superior service, simple processes, and effective communications.

We deliver on this mission by empowering our employees by encouraging and recognizing superior performance and innovative solutions, by promoting teamwork and divisional cooperation.
 

Primary Function

As a senior member of the Enterprise Architecture team, the Software Architect Senior will be responsible for building cloud-native and highly scalable enterprise-level software products, with Azure being the preferred cloud platform of use. This role will also involve architecting and implementing a micro-service architecture for enterprise-level business applications aligned with the overall business strategy. A candidate with deep knowledge of building and managing authentication using OKTA is preferred.

Responsibilities:

• Develop system architecture models to align with the organization's strategies and goals.
• Organizes team training to improve employees' knowledge and skills for organizational and developmental growth.
• Develops compliance architecture methods, including but not limited to data storage, metadata management, and change control.
• Identify and implement build versus buy strategies, mentor personnel, and view the overall system strategy.
• Guides development teams in re-architecting legacy applications (Microsoft stack) using micro-service architecture to make them scalable and satisfactory for end users.
• Steers the effort to promote existing custom applications to a cloud platform.
• Mentor technical teams in designing customer-facing enterprise-class applications to deliver robust, scalable, and efficient software solutions.
• Partners with project leads to conceptualize technical strategies and design/review the project requirements.
• Implements solution design standards and develops reference implementations.
• Provide documentation, training, and support for the designed solution.
• Contributes to the timely, high-quality delivery of customer-facing software projects.
• Experience in robust, quick, and efficient system integrations with 3rd parties.
• Ability to assist business partners to be self-sufficient in designing business process workflows.
• Maintain up-to-date industry knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases and new cutting-edge technologies related to Single Sign-On, Mobile development, DevOps, Software Architecture, Cloud Offerings, etc.
• Experience in building complex and custom authentication systems using OKTA.

Preferred Qualifications/Requirements: 

• Bachelor's degree in related field required. Advanced degree preferred.
• 5+ years experience in architecting software applications.
• Prior leadership experience with responsibility for team capacity planning, coaching, and performance architecting highly scalable enterprise-level on-premises and cloud-based custom software applications.
• Strategic, forward thinker who can solve problems at a strategic and tactical level.
• Strong analytical skills; practical decision-making skills; ability to appropriately exercise independent judgment.
• Client-focused, blending strong execution skills with results orientation.
• Self-directed and comfortable working with ambiguity and uncertainty.  Accountable; strong work ethic.
• Candidate should be able to communicate (written and verbal) effectively with both technical and non-technical parties.
• Participate in several development project teams, with the perspective of ensuring all standards and processes are followed, good designs are created, and quality documentation is created before a project is handed off to the support team. 
• Excellent multi-tasking and prioritization skills.

While this description is intended to be an accurate reflection of the position’s requirements, it in no way implies/states that these are the only job responsibilities. Management reserves the right to modify, add or remove duties and request other duties, as necessary.

Additional Information:

While this description is intended to be an accurate reflection of the position’s requirements, it in no way implies/states that these are the only job responsibilities. Management reserves the right to modify, add or remove duties and request other duties, as necessary.

All employees are required to have smart phones that meet Company security standards with the ability to install apps such as Okta Verify and Microsoft Authenticator. Employment will be contingent on this requirement.

Company Benefits:

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