Principal Software Architect (C#/SQL/Azure Services)
About The Position
Position at loanDepot Position Summary: Responsible for providing deep expertise and thought leadership in architectural guidance, governance and value generation in one or more areas of business-critical technology. Some examples include microservice design and implementation, cloud design, cloud application enablement, cloud agnostic strategies and delivery models including containers/AKS. Other sub specializations include, but are not limited to, Artificial Intelligence LLMs and Machine Learning, Asynchronous Application Design Patterns, Observability, Application Performance Management and Self-Healing Applications.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree preferred, and/or a minimum of ten (10) + years in software architecture/large-scale systems with five (5) + years depth in at least one business-critical domain (e.g., cloud platform, microservices, data/streaming, AI/ML).
- Mortgage/FinServ experience preferred (SOX/SOC2/GLBA familiarity).
- Minimum five (5) + years’ experience in an identified business critical technology.
- For emerging/disruptive technology the experience requirement should be taken to mean demonstrable authoritative expertise.
- Expert with the Microsoft stack (C#, .NET, SQL) and Azure (AKS, ARM/Bicep/Terraform, managed services), multi-cloud awareness a plus.
Responsibilities
- Leads technical strategy and produces reference implementations, tooling, and abstractions that accelerate teams (≈40–60% hands-on POCs/prototyping) in their area of expertise.
- Embed with teams for complex/novel initiatives to remove blockers and land critical designs in production.
- Provides input on policies and procedures to ensure that policies adequately govern the risk while still enabling value generation.
- Within their area(s) of expertise, maintains and extends the enterprise applications knowledgebase containing standards, templates and guidance for engineering teams.
- Introduce and scale new platform capabilities deliberately (experiments → pilots → guard railed rollout) with adoption plans and training.
- Establishes, communicates, and leads the adoption of enterprise application development standards and best practices across the enterprise.
- Influences peers to adopt program and projects to achieve efficiencies, has the “final” responsibility to resolve any application/technology issue in their area(s) of competence.
- Works well across time zones and with 3rd party resources.
Benefits
- Work with other passionate, purposeful, and customer-centric team members.
- Inclusive, diverse, and collaborative culture where people from all backgrounds can thrive.
- Extensive internal growth and professional development opportunities including tuition reimbursement.
- Comprehensive benefits package including Medical/Dental/Vision.
- Wellness program to support both mental and physical health.
- Generous paid time off options to support work-life balance.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
Number of Employees
1,001-5,000 employees
