Software Architect

Description

Responsibilities:

• Define and guide architectural strategy for Enforcement Mobile as the platform evolves toward cloud-native, event-driven architecture.
• Partner with engineering managers, product leaders, and senior engineers to align technical decisions with customer needs and business priorities.
• Evaluate system design tradeoffs across scalability, performance, reliability, security, maintainability, and user experience.
• Provide technical leadership for modernization initiatives, helping teams make incremental improvements while continuing to deliver customer value.
• Design and review architecture for complex features, services, integrations, and platform capabilities.
• Mentor engineers by asking thoughtful questions, challenging assumptions, and fostering strong technical judgment across the team.
• Establish and promote engineering standards, patterns, and practices that improve quality and consistency across the codebase.
• Guide adoption of modern engineering practices, including automated testing, continuous delivery, observability, and operational readiness.
• Partner with teams to leverage AI-assisted development practices and evaluate opportunities for AI-enabled product capabilities.
• Communicate architectural recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Qualifications:

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience designing and delivering production software systems.
• Strong technical foundation in .NET/C# and experience working with established systems and modernization efforts.
• Experience designing or evolving systems toward event-driven and distributed architectures.
• Experience building or operating systems in AWS and applying cloud-native design principles.
• Experience designing RESTful APIs, service integrations, and scalable backend systems.
• Strong understanding of relational databases, data modeling, and system performance considerations.
• Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices, including automated testing, continuous delivery, observability, and secure development.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code, containerization, or cloud deployment patterns.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, make decisions with incomplete information, and clearly communicate technical tradeoffs.
• Ability to mentor engineers and influence technical direction without relying on direct authority.
• Experience using AI tools to improve engineering workflows, quality, and outcomes.
• Required to undergo and satisfactorily pass a fingerprint background check in accordance with CJIS requirements. 

Nice to Have

• Experience leading platform modernization or incremental migration efforts across production systems.
• Experience with mobile applications across iOS, Android, or Windows platforms.
• Experience with cross-platform mobile development approaches.
• Experience with modern front-end development frameworks such as Angular, React, or similar.
• Experience working in public sector, public safety, or regulated environments.
• Work Environment
• This role is primarily in-office to support close collaboration with the team.
• Hybrid flexibility is available, with an expectation of at least three days per week in the office.