Job Title: System Architect
Type: 6-Month Contract-to-Hire (C2H)
Location: Hybrid – Louisville, KY / Allentown, PA / Rhode Island
Visa: US Citizens or Green Card holders only
Job Overview:
We are seeking a System Architect with strong leadership, communication, and technical design skills to architect high-scale customer-facing platforms. This role will define architecture for modern digital systems (web, mobile, IVR) supporting seamless and secure customer experiences.
You will play a key role in setting technical direction, choosing platforms, ensuring performance, scalability, and reliability, while effectively communicating with stakeholders and leadership.
Key Responsibilities:
• Lead architectural design for large-scale systems including customer, contractor, and supplier portals.
• Define solutions for customer experiences across Web (React, Next.js), Mobile (iOS/Android), and IVR (CXOne).
• Design secure login, payment systems, and high-availability architectures (99.9% SLA).
• Present architecture decisions to technical and business stakeholders, including leadership groups.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Enterprise Architecture teams to align system goals.
• Establish and enforce NFRs (e.g., scalability, security, reliability).
• Guide selection of cloud-native platforms (Azure preferred).
• Define system interfaces, API integration, and backend services (Java).
• Lead engineering best practices including DevOps, CI/CD, and observability.
• Create architecture diagrams, technical documentation, and platform roadmaps.
• Champion modern cloud-native, microservices, and event-driven architecture principles.
Required Qualifications:
• 8+ years of experience in software/system architecture.
• Proven experience designing large-scale, customer-facing systems.
• Strong understanding of modern tech stacks:
o Frontend: React, Next.js
o Mobile: Swift, Android
o Backend/API: Java
o Cloud: Azure (preferred), AWS/GCP
o IVR: NICE CXOne
• Experience with:
o Microservices, event-driven systems, messaging (Kafka, RabbitMQ)
o Container orchestration (AKS, GKE, ECS, etc.)
o CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform)
o API Management (Apigee, Kong)
• Excellent communication and presentation skills; must be comfortable addressing large audiences (100+ people).
• Demonstrated leadership in setting technical direction and mentoring teams.
• Experience with Agile methodologies and fast-paced environments.
Preferred Qualifications:
• 5+ years leading architecture for cloud-native platforms.
• 7+ years of team or technical leadership experience.
• Strong understanding of platform selection, modernization strategies, and customer journey optimization.
Aryan Chaudhary Sr. Technical Recruiter SHEF SOLUTIONS INC. |
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