Software Architecture Manager

Pay or shift range: $160,000 USD to $190,000 USD. The estimated range is the budgeted amount for this position. Final offers are based on various factors, including skill set, experience, location, qualifications and other job-related reasons.

Software Architecture Manager

Design the architecture behind systems that keep the food supply moving.

United States Cold Storage owns and operates one of the most complex temperature-controlled logistics networks in North America. Every day, our systems coordinate the storage and movement of food at national scale across a network of state-of-the-art distribution centers, including multiple highly automated warehouse facilities.

We continue to advance our core warehouse and logistics platforms. Our current focus is on modular, event-driven, API-first, and cloud architectures. We continue to enhance reliability and accelerate engineering productivity by strengthening our SRE and AI practices. This is a large investment in innovation to continue to drive operational excellence at our facilities.

If you want to build durable systems that operate in the physical world at scale, this is that opportunity.

The Software Architecture Manager will lead the team defining how we build software at US Cold Storage.

You will set the architectural standards for our cloud-native warehouse management system. You will guide our transformation from monolith to event-driven microservices. You will define the patterns that deliver sub-second, always-on performance  will own the guardrails every development team ships behind.

This is both a hands-on technical role and a practice-building leadership position.

You will report to the Associate Director of Software Development and collaborate with a team of architects, technical leads, and software development managers.

• Build and lead a team of software architects.
• Drive transformation from legacy monoliths to distributed microservices while minimizing operational disruption.
• Define architectural standards to achieve SLAs while ensuring scalability, reliability, and observability.
• Partner with QA, Platform, and SRE to ensure architecture enables operational excellence.
• Establish and enforce architectural standards across development teams.
• Communicate tradeoffs, risks, and long-term implications clearly to leadership.
• Evaluate emerging patterns and technologies pragmatically.

• Azure and OCI Multi-Region Infrastructure
• Java monoliths and microservices with Spring and Hibernate
• Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Ansible
• Git Hub Actions and Jenkins for CI/CD
• Observability using Dynatrace and Azure Monitor

We are embarking on a multi-year modernization effort running alongside live operations.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field. Master’s degree preferred.
• 10+ years of software development experience with an emphasis in Java.
• 3+ years of software architecture or management experience.
• Experience modernizing monolithic applications to microservices architectures.
• Deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud-native design, observability, and performance tuning.
• Strong grounding in architectural principles including 12‑factors.
• Proven ability to set measurable objectives, track progress, and communicate status, risks, and resource needs.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to tailor the message to the appropriate audience.

• Relational and non-relational database design and tuning.
• Logistics, warehousing, or supply chain platforms.

You will build US Cold’s first dedicated architecture team:

• You will build and lead our first architecture team
• You will have the authority to create and enforce architectural standards
• Your decisions will have an immediate impact on our teams, our systems, and the warehouse personnel who use them

You will architect systems that stand the test of time.

• Salary Range: $-$/yr.
• Location:
  
  Hybrid, Camden, NJ
• Reports to:
  
  Associate Director, Software Development
• Travel:
  Less than 20%

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