Enterprise Software Architect

Viventium Software•,

1d•$250,000 - $280,000•Remote

About The Position

An exciting opportunity to join a high-growth organization at the intersection of healthcare, workforce operations, and technology. The Enterprise Software Architect will define and lead the target-state architecture for the Viventium + Apploi Human Capital Management platform, with responsibility for platform architecture across the end-to-end workforce lifecycle, including Hiring, Scheduling, HR, Benefits, Time & Attendance, and Payroll. This role will play a critical part in shaping how software from Viventium + Apploi comes together into a unified, scalable, secure, and modern platform. The Enterprise Software Architect will establish architectural direction, integration patterns, engineering standards, and modernization priorities that support both near-term delivery and long-term scale. The ideal candidate combines strong enterprise architecture judgment with practical software engineering credibility. They are equally comfortable defining target-state architecture, improving developer experience, driving platform engineering and DevOps maturity, rationalizing technical debt, and influencing senior engineering, product, and business leaders.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field preferred; advanced degree a plus
10+ years of experience in software engineering, software architecture, or enterprise architecture roles, with significant experience in SaaS platforms
Proven track record architecting complex, multi-product software platforms with high availability, security, and scalability requirements
Strong hands-on architecture experience with enterprise Microsoft/.NET technology stacks, including .NET Core, .NET Framework, WCF, gRPC, Entity Framework, SQL Server, Azure Web Apps, Azure Service Bus, MongoDB, and modern single-page applications using React and Angular
Experience architecting and modernizing Azure-hosted SaaS environments, including deployment models, observability, scalability, resiliency, disaster recovery, and operational readiness
Experience designing integration architecture across legacy and modern systems, including REST APIs, gRPC, WCF, messaging/eventing, service boundaries, contract versioning, backward compatibility, and migration from tightly coupled integrations to scalable platform patterns
Strong understanding of identity, authentication, authorization, role-based access control, secure API design, tenant isolation, data protection, and privacy requirements for enterprise SaaS platforms
Ability to define system-of-record boundaries, canonical data models, data ownership, synchronization patterns, and cross-platform data governance across product domains
Deep, hands-on experience architecting and operating AWS-native SaaS platforms, including serverless and containerized compute, Cognito-based identity, and infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, AWS CDK, and SAM
Proven track record decomposing monoliths into services and leading incremental microservices migrations using domain-driven bounded contexts, safe migration patterns, and deliberate strategies for splitting shared databases while avoiding distributed monoliths
Expertise designing polyglot data and event-driven messaging architectures spanning relational, NoSQL, search, streaming, messaging, and caching technologies
Strong background building Python and Node.js/TypeScript backend services, with modern React and React Native web and mobile clients; experience designing scalable GraphQL and REST APIs using schema federation, gateway patterns, contract versioning, and clean service boundaries
Deep experience with distributed systems, API-first architecture, cloud-native patterns, platform engineering, DevOps, CI/CD, observability, and reliability engineering concepts
Demonstrated success influencing engineering organizations through technical leadership rather than direct authority alone
Experience driving architecture governance and large-scale modernization initiatives
Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical topics into clear recommendations for executives, engineering leaders, and cross-functional stakeholders
Strong strategic judgment combined with a pragmatic, execution-oriented mindset

Nice To Haves

Experience in Human Capital Management, Payroll, HR Tech, Workforce Management, healthcare technology, or adjacent regulated SaaS domains
Experience integrating acquired products, platforms, or engineering organizations
Familiarity with domain-driven design, event-driven architecture, service decomposition, and API-first platform strategy
Experience in environments with strong regulatory, compliance, privacy, or security expectations; healthcare experience strongly preferred

Responsibilities

Own the architectural vision and target-state design for the Viventium + Apploi HCM platform across Hiring, Scheduling, HR, Benefits, Time & Attendance, and Payroll.
Define how products and capabilities from Viventium and Apploi should integrate and evolve into a unified platform, balancing speed, customer value, maintainability, security, and long-term extensibility.
Establish architectural principles, reference patterns, decision frameworks, and ownership boundaries that guide Product and Engineering teams.
Partner with Product, Engineering, Security, Data, and IT leaders to ensure architecture choices align with business priorities, platform strategy, and operational needs.
Drive maturity in platform engineering capabilities that improve delivery speed, reliability, consistency, and engineering leverage.
Partner with infrastructure, DevOps/SRE, and engineering leaders to improve cloud architecture, observability, resiliency, release practices, and operational readiness.
Help evolve development and deployment standards to support a modern, secure, scalable SaaS environment.
Guide architectural decisions related to cloud scalability, resilience, fault isolation, disaster recovery, capacity planning, and high-availability platform operations.
Define guardrails and architectural standards for mission-critical workflows, particularly those adjacent to payroll, workforce operations, and employee data.
Define enterprise-grade API, eventing, and integration patterns that enable interoperability across applications, services, and external partners.
Establish canonical integration approaches, system-of-record boundaries, data ownership, synchronization patterns, and data flow principles across the combined platform.
Improve consistency, discoverability, governance, and reusability of internal and external platform interfaces.
Support architecture for third-party integrations, partner ecosystems, cross-product workflows, and API-first platform strategy.
Collaborate with engineering leaders to improve team productivity through standards, tooling, workflows, and shared platform capabilities that reduce friction and increase consistency.
Advocate for strong engineering ergonomics in CI/CD, local development, testing patterns, environment management, documentation, and shared services.
Work with engineering leaders to reduce architectural drag and enable teams to build faster within well-defined guardrails.
Establish scalable architecture governance practices that improve decision quality without creating unnecessary bureaucracy.
Lead or support architecture reviews for major initiatives, platform changes, integration work, and modernization programs.
Create lightweight but effective processes for technical standards, design review, exception management, and architectural accountability.
Ensure architecture decisions appropriately consider security, privacy, compliance, reliability, operational supportability, secure-development expectations, and required security management frameworks.
Identify and prioritize architectural debt, platform fragmentation, aging components, and structural bottlenecks that inhibit speed, quality, and scale.
Create practical modernization roadmaps that balance business delivery with platform health.
Help teams make smart build, buy, retire, and refactor decisions across systems and shared services.
Drive platform simplification and rationalization where legacy approaches limit future integration and scalability.