Senior Software Architect

Newrez LLC • Coppell, TX

23h • Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Software Architect is responsible for building cloud native and highly scalable enterprise level software products with Azure being the preferred cloud platform of use. This role will also be responsible for architecting and implementing micro-service architecture for enterprise level business applications that are aligned with overall business strategy.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field
• 5+ years’ experience in architecting software applications.
• Prior leadership experience with responsibility for team capacity planning, coaching, and performance.
• Strong leadership capabilities with ability to lead a team with influence in a cross-functional, matrixed environment; develop and maintain effective relationships to enable required results.
• Strategic, forward thinker with the ability to problem solve at a strategic and tactical level.
• Strong analytical skills; effective decision-making skills; ability to appropriately exercise independent judgment.
• Client focused, blending strong execution skills and a results orientation.
• Strong project management skills with experience leading initiatives across a distributed organization structure.
• Self-directed and comfortable working with ambiguity and uncertainty.
• Accountable; strong work ethic.
• Strong quality orientation with an attention to detail and accuracy.
• Integrity, ability to maintain and work with confidential information.
• High learning agility: demonstrated ability to quickly establish credibility, coupled with the ability to recognize and support the organization’s preferences and priorities.
• Effective at managing multiple priorities under tight deadlines in a fast-paced, dynamic environment; ability to organize time and resources to bring initiatives to successful completion.
• Ability to participate on several development project teams with perspective to ensure all standards and processes are followed, good designs and quality documentation is created before handoff of a project to the support team.
• Strong verbal/written communication skills to communicate with both technical and non-technical parties.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to develop and maintain effective relationships across the organization.
• Employees are required to have smart phones that meet Company security standards with the ability to install apps such as Microsoft Authenticator.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced Degree preferred.

Responsibilities

• Evaluates internal functions, system development strategies, and suggest recommended improvements.
• Develop system architecture models to align with the organization's strategies and goals.
• Organizes team trainings to improve employees' knowledge and skills for organizational and developmental growth.
• Develops methods for compliance architecture, such as but not limited to data storage, metadata management, and change control.
• Identify and implements build versus buy strategies, mentor personnel, and views of the overall system strategy.
• Guides development teams in re-architecting legacy applications (Microsoft stack) to make them scalable, and satisfactory for end users using micro-service architecture.
• Steers the effort to promote existing custom applications to cloud platform.
• Mentor technical teams for designing customer-facing enterprise class applications to deliver robust, scalable, and efficient software solutions.
• Partners with project leads to conceptualize technical strategies, and design/review design the requirements for the project.
• Implements solution design standards and develops reference implementations.
• Provides documentation, training, and support for the designed solution.
• Contributes to the timely, high-quality delivery of customer facing software projects.
• Experience in robust, quick, and efficient system integrations with 3rd parties.
• Ability to assist business partners to be self-sufficient in designing business process workflows.
• Understandings of various cloud offerings - SaaS, Paas and Iaas.
• Maintain up-to-date industry knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases and new cutting-edge technologies around Single Sign-On, Mobile development, DevOps, Software Architecture, Cloud Offerings etc.
• Ability to effectively and accurately convey information to others.
• Performs related duties as assigned by management.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Health Savings Account with employer contribution
• 401(k) Retirement plan with employer match
• Paid Maternity Leave/Parental Bonding Leave/Caregiver Leave
• Adoption Assistance
• Tuition & Certification reimbursement
• Employee Mortgage Loan Program
• The Newrez Employee Emergency and Disaster Fund is a program to support our team members experiencing hardships
• Newrez NOW: Through Newrez NOW, our Corporate Social Responsibility program, you’ll have opportunities to give back, lead, and make a difference.
• 1 company-paid Volunteer Time Off day
• Matching Gifts Program - dollar-for-dollar up to $1,000
• Access to grants, nonprofit resources, and volunteer opportunities

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior