Senior Software Architect
About The Position
The Senior Software Architect is a highly influential technical leadership role within Conga's B2B Platform Engineering organization. This position is responsible for shaping the architectural vision, technical strategy, and long-term evolution of Conga's B2B Platform, including the platform capabilities that support Revenue Lifecycle Management (RLM) and Pricing Solutions. As a Senior Software Architect, you will provide architectural leadership across multiple product, platform, and data initiatives, ensuring solutions align with enterprise architecture principles, business objectives, scalability requirements, and long-term platform strategy. You will serve as a trusted advisor to Engineering, Product, and Executive leadership while driving innovation, modernization, and technical excellence throughout the organization. This role is ideal for experienced architects who possess deep technical expertise, a systems-thinking mindset, and a proven ability to influence engineering direction at scale.
Requirements
- 12+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience in architecture leadership roles.
- Proven success defining and implementing architecture for large-scale enterprise SaaS platforms and distributed systems.
- Deep expertise in Java-based application development, cloud-native architectures, microservices, and modern software engineering practices.
- Strong understanding of enterprise integration patterns, API management, event-driven architectures, and platform engineering principles.
- Experience designing highly scalable, secure, resilient, and observable SaaS solutions serving enterprise customers.
- Hands-on expertise with public cloud platforms, preferably Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, and Infrastructure-as-Code practices.
- Strong experience working with relational and NoSQL databases, data modeling, and high-volume transaction systems.
- Experience designing platform capabilities for enterprise data management, including data ingestion, processing, storage, governance, access, and integration across distributed systems.
- Experience with modern data platforms and technologies used to manage enterprise data and business objects, such as Databricks, including their integration with operational applications and platform services.
- Demonstrated ability to lead technology strategy and influence architectural decisions across multiple teams and organizations.
- Proven ability to drive architectural governance while balancing pragmatism, speed, and innovation.
- Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience mentoring architects, principal engineers, and senior technical contributors.
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the architectural vision, technology strategy, and roadmap for Conga's B2B Platform, shared services, and enterprise data capabilities.
- Lead the design and review of complex, business-critical systems and large-scale modernization efforts.
- Establish and champion enterprise architecture standards, governance processes, and engineering best practices.
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Security, Operations, and Data leaders to align technology investments with business objectives.
- Drive architectural decisions that balance customer needs, business priorities, security, scalability, reliability, and operational excellence.
- Lead the architecture of enterprise data capabilities, ensuring effective ingestion, governance, access, integration, and reuse of business data across products and platform services.
- Evaluate and drive adoption of emerging technologies, frameworks, and architectural patterns that accelerate innovation and business outcomes.
- Mentor Architects, Principal Engineers, and technical leaders while fostering architectural excellence across engineering teams.
- Promote cloud-native, Azure-based, API-first, event-driven, and scalable architectural approaches across the product ecosystem.
- Serve as a key escalation point for complex technical challenges, architectural risks, and cross-functional dependencies.
- Partner with Executive leadership to identify and address technical debt, platform investment opportunities, and strategic technical initiatives.
Benefits
- medical and dental insurance
- flexible work options
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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