Lead Software Architect (Cloud)

Location: 100% remote within the United States

Salary: $175,000–$200,000 annually

Company

Technology consulting and software development organization delivering cloud, AI, data, and enterprise solutions across the United States.

What you will do

• Define enterprise software architecture strategy across products, platforms, and engineering organizations.
• Design scalable, fault-tolerant, cloud-native distributed systems for enterprise workloads.
• Establish architecture principles, technical standards, governance practices, and decision records.
• Lead architecture reviews, technical design sessions, platform modernization, cloud migration, and API strategy.
• Drive performance optimization, scalability planning, reliability engineering, observability, automation, and operational excellence.
• Partner with executive leadership, engineering, product, and business stakeholders while mentoring Staff and Senior Engineers.

Requirements

• U.S. work eligibility is required; applicants must be U.S. citizens, Green Card holders, EAD holders, or eligible for an H-1B transfer.
• New H-1B visa petitions cannot be sponsored for this position.
• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including enterprise-scale platform design and delivery.
• Proven experience architecting and deploying large-scale distributed systems in production.
• Advanced programming proficiency in Java, Go, C++, C#, or similar backend technologies.
• Strong knowledge of software architecture, microservices, distributed computing, APIs, messaging, cloud platforms, SRE, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and DevOps.

Nice to have

• Public technical contributions through presentations, publications, patents, technical blogs, or open-source leadership.
• Experience with multi-year enterprise modernization or digital transformation programs.
• Knowledge of FinOps, cloud governance, and cloud cost optimization.
• Experience with regulated industries, Kubernetes, service mesh technologies, enterprise integration patterns, or AI-enabled software platforms.
• Advanced degree or recognized software architecture and cloud certifications.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time direct W-2 employment.
• Remote work arrangement within the United States.
• Opportunity to influence engineering strategy across multiple organizations.
• Focus on engineering excellence, architectural best practices, and technical innovation.