Principal Application Modernization Architect

Liatrio•Seattle, WA

8d•$180,000 - $240,000•Onsite

About The Position

Liatrio is a boutique consulting firm that helps enterprises deliver software faster, safer and more efficiently. Our work is dual mode: engineering delivery and people enablement. We lead Application Modernization and DevOps transformations in many different industries, anywhere from financial institutions to healthcare providers to the department of defense. This role is onsite in Seattle for one of our largest enterprise customers. Weâre looking for someone with extensive experience as a Enterprise Architect, Strategic Architect, Field CTO, Head of Development, Head of Engineering, or Head of Application Modernization, who is passionate about both best practices in modern enterprise architecture and enabling clients through transferring knowledge, coaching, training, and upskilling. The Principal Application Modernization Architect is a stakeholder and decision maker Liatrio's direction, and accountable for strategic technical direction of a major engagement or several smaller engagements, building and maintaining client relationships as a trusted technical advisor, and overall technical engagement success. Internally, this role will work with Executive and Senior leaders as Liatrio scales. This role is is responsible for the code quality architecture, and technical direction of multiple workstreams. Titles that can correspond to our work: Senior Technical Director, Senior Technical Principal, Principal Architect, Managing Director, Enterprise Architect, Strategic Architect, Senior Director of Technical Professional Services, Senior Director of Application Development, Director of Developer Experience, or Vice President of Engineering. Liatrio lives and breathes the following traits; people on our team tend to have a combination of the following qualities: - Willingness and hunger to learn - Devotion to open communication and transparency - Value collaboration and willingness to share responsibilities across internal and client work - Effectively communicate in difficult conversations - Desire to solve complex problems - interpersonal, technical, and business - Ability to acknowledge shortcomings and provide solutions - Empathy towards others - Appreciate mentoring and helping others grow - Navigate ambiguity and frequent change This is a Senior Director - level role. You thrive building relationships as a trusted technology advisor with clients, guiding and influencing the long-term technical direction of their modernization transformation, and guiding teams through this work. We each bring varying degrees of knowledge to the table. You will have extensive experience in most of the below areas but not necessarily all of them. This is not a comprehensive list; there may be other equally valuable skills and experience you bring that are not listed here.

Requirements

Extensive experience as a Enterprise Architect, Strategic Architect, Field CTO, Head of Development, Head of Engineering, or Head of Application Modernization
Passionate about both best practices in modern enterprise architecture and enabling clients through transferring knowledge, coaching, training, and upskilling
Owned modernization of existing legacy applications as well as full stack development of completely new applications
Fluent in multiple programming languages, including FP and OOP, and databases
Extensive experience creating frontend web applications, backend API services, cloud-hosted applications, and full stack standalone solutions
Expertise navigating enterprise environments, distributed systems, and large/multi-cloud environments
Comfortable with end-to-end software delivery, able to review code and empathizing with developers and engineers across the SDLC
Comfortable with cloud-native architecture, source control management systems and branching strategies, and automation
First-hand experience building or deep knowledge from being embedded within Operations teams responsible for: containerization, infrastructure as code, platform engineering, data center architecture, systems architecture, observability, and DevOps practices
Advocates for patterns, practices, and best practices like Agile, TDD, BDD, and DDD
Employment eligibility: must be authorized to work in the United States or Canada without the need for sponsorship.
Travel: we divide our time between working remotely and visiting our clients' sites. This role will be onsite with the client approximately 50%, which can include commuting, majority US travel, and occasional international travel.

Responsibilities

Lead architectural design and drive technology strategy - Partner with Strategic Principal to create SOWs, working closely with the C-suite, Liatrio delivery leadership, and client stakeholders to advise, drive, and evolve the enterprise architecture and POVs in Full Stack Application Development & Modernization, and potentially other technical domains
Delivery strategy - Working closely with leadership, Liatrio team members and the client, contribute to and evolve the overall strategy for the technical engagement
Trusted advisor - Guide clients on technical and engineering methodological best practices, provide broad technical influence, share industry insight, anticipate industry changes, advocate for cloud-native and DevOps cultural and be a transformational consultant (remove political, financial, mental, social impediments)
Client relationship - Accountable for an account to build, grow, and maintain Liatrio relationships with the CTO/CIO/Chief Architect, executive, and key customer stakeholders
Set and drive technical roadmaps - Architect enterprise solutions, reduce technical debt, balancing constraints to achieve strategic goals, provide oversight for workstreams solving complex engineering challenges, and guide and collaborate with with both Liatrio and client architects and engineers
Oversight and accountability Anticipate objectives and conflicting points of view; reduce complexity and clarify the most important technical work for clients and Liatrio
Team morale and alignment - Accountable for overall morale and well-being of the Liatrio team
Direct reports - 4-8 team members of varying experience levels, coaching/mentoring with weekly 1:1s, real time feedback, and formal feedback monthly & bi-annually
Team accountability - Drive best practices, mentor across teams, proactively assist teams at first signs of struggle and, balance delivery with internal projects
Staffing needs & demands - Identifies and maps capabilities of the team to client needs, advise leadership and PeopleOps on hiring, onboarding, and rotation to prevent burnout
Customer growth & expansion - Support Strategic Principle & sales teamâs work in providing an excellent customer experience, identifying opportunities for expansion, promoting Liatrio, and validating SOWs
Liatrio IP development - Leveraging your industry knowledge and Liatrio's insights to create accelerators that will be valuable to future engagements, support our internal efforts, and grow the community