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About The Position

Requirements

• B.S. or B.A. in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related discipline required; equivalent directly relevant software architecture, enterprise application development, or product engineering experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
• This level is typically achieved by practitioners with 16 or more years of related experience since a Bachelor’s degree or 15 or more years since a Master’s degree.
• Typical incumbent has 20 or more years of progressively responsible experience in software development, product architecture, database design, API design, enterprise system migration, and technical leadership.
• Must have extensive experience designing, developing, modernizing, and supporting large enterprise software applications.
• Must demonstrate strong architecture judgment, deep software development experience, and ability to diagnose complex technical issues across application, API, database, integration, and user workflow layers.
• Requires strong knowledge of object-oriented design, API architecture, database design, SQL performance tuning, source control, code review practices, DevOps processes, technical documentation, and software quality practices.
• Must possess excellent communication, facilitation, mentoring, technical writing, analytical, and interpersonal skills.
• Job requires ability to access and understand technical materials, operate a computer keyboard, review software and database artifacts, communicate effectively both orally and in writing, and work with interruptions to address priority technical issues.
• Incumbent must be able to plan, prioritize, review project plans and documents, evaluate alternatives, select appropriate solutions, and provide technical leadership under changing priorities.

Nice To Haves

• Industry-recognized architecture, cloud, database, agile, DevOps, Microsoft, or software development certifications are desired.
• Professional registration may be considered for incumbents with Engineering degrees where applicable.
• Experience with enterprise asset management software, public infrastructure workflows, budget forecasting, work order systems, configuration-driven behavior, migration from legacy platforms, and customer-impact analysis is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Leads solution architecture for complex product capabilities: Defines technical approaches, design patterns, implementation strategies, and system behavior for highly complex application features across legacy and modernized product platforms.
• Translates business requirements into technical designs: Interprets product functional requirements and converts them into actionable technical specifications, implementation plans, design documents, and acceptance considerations.
• Performs complex code investigation and troubleshooting: Analyzes code paths, repository structure, data interactions, defects, root causes, and product behavior to answer escalated technical questions and support timely resolution of high-impact issues.
• Provides SQL and database performance leadership: Reviews database interactions, query plans, indexes, data access patterns, and performance impacts using tools such as SQL Server Management Studio, SQL Profiler, and related diagnostics to prevent lag or degradation.
• Reviews and approves critical maintenance changes: Establishes and applies approval criteria for changes to legacy and production systems, including merge reviews, behavior-change assessment, configuration needs, regression risk, and customer impact.
• Evaluates feature deprecation and customer impact: Identifies affected users, workflows, integrations, configurations, reporting impacts, and migration needs when product functionality changes or is retired.
• Supports documentation, demos, and QA planning: Creates or reviews technical overviews, architecture notes, feature demonstrations, QA test-plan inputs, and implementation assumptions for major new features.
• Acts as technical feature champion: Provides end-to-end technical leadership for assigned features, ensuring alignment among product management, UX, development, QA, implementation, support, and client-facing teams.
• Improves engineering practices: Contributes to code review standards, JIRA process improvement, DevOps friction reduction, reusable checklists, coding conventions, testing practices, and knowledge retrieval methods.
• Mentors senior and developing technical staff: Provides coaching, pair-working, design review, troubleshooting support, and architectural guidance to distribute product knowledge and reduce single-person dependency.
• Maintains awareness of emerging technologies: Evaluates and applies relevant software development, database, API, AI-assisted development, DevOps, and architecture practices to improve productivity and product quality.
• Performs such other duties as the supervisor may from time to time deem necessary.

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• company-paid life and short- and long-term disability benefits
• employer-matched 401(k) with 100% vesting
• employee stock purchase plan
• Paid Time Off
• leaves of absences options
• flexible work options
• recognition and employee satisfaction programs
• employee assistance program
• voluntary benefits