Sr. Staff Architect – Software Architecture
About The Position
The Sr. Staff Architect – Software Architecture plays a strategic role in designing and evolving modern enterprise application architecture, enabling scalable, secure, and high-performing software platforms across the organization. This role drives adoption of cloud-native, API-first, and microservices-based solutions, partnering with application, cloud, data, and security teams to deliver resilient systems that support Penn Mutual’s digital platform strategy. The architect establishes standards, promotes reusable architecture patterns, and enables engineering teams to deliver innovative, high-quality solutions aligned with enterprise architecture principles.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- 10+ years of experience in software development and architecture, including enterprise-scale systems.
- Deep expertise in software architecture, microservices, distributed systems, and API design.
- Strong experience with Java-based development frameworks (e.g., Spring Boot).
- Proven experience designing cloud-native solutions on AWS.
- Experience defining architecture standards, governance models, and engineering best practices.
- Strong understanding of security, scalability, and performance optimization in distributed systems.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills across technical and business stakeholders
Nice To Haves
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tooling.
- Knowledge of containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS/EKS).
- Exposure to AI-enabled architectures or integration of AI capabilities into enterprise applications.
Responsibilities
- Provide thought leadership and technical guidance across IT and business teams on modern software architecture, engineering practices, and platform strategy.
- Define and drive adoption of modern architecture principles including microservices, API-first design, and cloud-native development.
- Establish enterprise architecture standards, reference architectures, and reusable design patterns for distributed and Java-based systems.
- Lead architecture and design of scalable applications, including service decomposition, API contracts, and integration patterns.
- Architect and guide development of cloud-native solutions leveraging AWS services and ensuring alignment with AWS Well-Architected principles.
- Design and govern API ecosystems and enable event-driven and loosely coupled service architectures.
- Improve developer productivity through frameworks, templates, CI/CD enablement, and best practices in quality, testing, and observability.
- Establish monitoring, performance, and reliability standards; lead troubleshooting and continuous optimization.
- Ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture standards, security requirements, and governance frameworks.
- Partner with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to align technical solutions with strategic objectives.
- Mentor engineers and promote continuous improvement through modern engineering practices and emerging technologies.
Benefits
- comprehensive suite of competitive products and services
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
