Senior Director, Architecture

Litera•Denver, CO

19h•Hybrid

About The Position

Join the Legal Tech Revolution at Litera Are you ready to shape the future of how law is practiced? At Litera , we’re on a mission to Raise The Bar™️ for the legal profession by delivering transformational and globally-trusted solutions to law firms and corporate legal teams worldwide. We’ve been a leader in legal tech innovation for 30 years and are leading the legal AI revolution to this day with most of the world’s largest law firms as our clients. If you’re passionate about building AI-forward solutions that scale globally and want your work to impact millions of legal professionals worldwide, this is your opportunity to be part of an extraordinary team that’s elevating the craft of law. As part of our strategic growth and commitment to fostering collaboration and operational excellence, we are transitioning to a hybrid working model. This position is based in Denver, Colorado and candidates should reside within reasonable commuting distance, as this role requires on-site presence at least three days per week. This hybrid approach enables us to build a collaborative and innovative work environment while maintaining the flexibility that supports both productivity and work-life balance. We are actively seeking talented individuals to join our team in this exciting new phase of growth. Available Office Locations: Denver, Colorado The Opportunity: We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Director, Architecture who will demonstrate technical leadership and as well as strong communication and presentation skills to join our dynamic and innovative technology team. The position requir es not only rock-solid programming skills, but also the capacity to lead all aspects of technical design reviews and quality culture. The right candidat e will have the ability to teach, coach, and mentor more junior engineers. As a senior leader on the team, you will be responsible for defining the requi rements, designing, and shaping technology innovation at Litera . This is a unique opportunity to play a key technical strategy role within a growing and ever-changing ecosystem. The role works closely with both the Engineering and Product teams and spans both products and the underlying technology platform . Our customers rely on us to deliver innovative, strategic and forwa rd-lookin g solutions. This is your chance to be a key member of a global software company.

Requirements

12+ years of software development experience with excellent .NET/C#, React and Bootstrap coding skills.
3+ years of experience working as a software architect.
BS degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, or Engineering (or related experience).
.NET framework and object-oriented development in Microsoft Visual Studio.
Microsoft Azure and/or AWS cloud computing experience (Azure preferred).
Solid understanding of distributed systems architecture and microservices.
Experience with building highly scalable and resilient cloud services.
Expertise with the following frameworks or technologies: ASP.NET Core, MVC/MVVM/etc., SQL Server/MySQL.
Experience developing reference architectures and proof of concept prototypes.
Clearance of standard background check prior to employment with candidate consent.

Nice To Haves

Azure OpenAI/GPT/LLMs, MS Office development, MS Power Automate, Azure Container Apps, TypeScript/JavaScript, Lucene/Elasticsearch, Azure DevOps, CI/CD.
Microsoft or other industry certifications in architecture a plus.

Responsibilities

Develop innovative architectural solutions in a wide variety of problem sets and domains.
Create and share architectural designs, best practices and technology roadmaps with cross-functional teams.
Translate business and product requirements into technical requirements, models and software architectures.
Focus on non-functional requirements, including deployment needs, scalability, performance and reliability when developing architectures and best practices.
Develop “proof of concept” solutions to help demonstrate and communicate technical designs and desired architectures.
Develop architecture and guidelines to move on-perm systems to SAAS based multi-tenant solutions on Azure Cloud.
Drive adoption of new technology across the organization by delivering Proof of Concepts with supporting design diagrams, technical documentation, business impact analysis and ROI.
Optimize cloud-based systems for high availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery.
Mentor the team to work towards a common platform architecture across the organization.