Managing Architect - DivisionHex

About Coalfire

Coalfire is on a mission to make the world a safer place by solving our clients’ hardest cybersecurity challenges. We work at the cutting edge of technology to advise, assess, automate, and ultimately help companies navigate the ever-changing cybersecurity landscape. We are headquartered in Chicago, Illinois with offices across the U.S. and U.K., and we support clients around the world.

But that’s not who we are – that’s just what we do.

We are thought leaders, consultants, and cybersecurity experts, but above all else, we are a team of passionate problem-solvers who are hungry to learn, grow, and make a difference.

Division Hex’s Managing Architect helps lead the evaluation and identification of domain-driven software design solutions in Hexeon, Division Hex’s main delivery platform (a microservices architecture application). They work closely with the product managers, delivery teams, and customers to translate the overall vision of the product into actionable projects for their developer teams. The Managing Architect also provides technical solutions for business needs while allowing for the development of maintainable and expandable secure software solutions.

• Manage geographically distributed team of various experience levels across multiple projects
• Foster a collaborative and inclusive team culture across remote teams
• Optimize resource allocation to balance cost and productivity, aligning to the approved roadmap
• Vendor & Contractor Management
• Coordinate with external staffing vendors or agencies to source and onboard contractors
• Manage contracts, renewals, and offboarding processes
• Ensure compliance with company policies, legal requirements, and security standards
• Ownership and maintenance of technical stack, including security and licensing requirements
• Work closely with stakeholders to understand their needs and translate them into technical solutions
• Lead research and design efforts and assist in transition to development teams for productization
• Work with Product Management to provide level of effort estimates for features being envisioned
• Created & Maintains design documentation, master feature lists, etc.
• Mentor engineers and perform periodic application architecture reviews with team leads
• Assist team leads with code reviews
• Work with Managers to create and cultivate software development processes and best practices
• Guide and review the architecture in assigned product areas
• Review tooling in use and make recommendations to meet goals of delivering high quality secure software
• Explore additional technology stacks to help guide strategic expansions to Coalfire’s offerings
• Additional responsibilities as assigned

• Experience managing geographically distributed developer teams
• Strong agile software development experience
• Effective communication in dynamic, fast-paced situations
• Minimum of 10 years’ experience with C#, JavaScript, and agile software development
• 5+ years’ secure architecture related experience using modern software engineering processes and tools, such as:
• MongoDB
• Apache Kafka
• Secure cloud computing platform experience
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• Container orchestration (EKS)
• Serverless architectures (Lambda, API Gateway)
• Event-driven architecture, stream processing, and consistency patterns
• CI/CD, Dev Ops, etc.
• Docker
• Working knowledge of secure coding practices, threat modeling, and compliance frameworks
• Performance and scalability optimization
• Deadline-oriented, ethical conduct, service orientation, writing coordination, time management, social perceptiveness, monitoring, and active learning are all important skills to this position.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in related field
• Experience working to drive threat-focused cybersecurity outcomes for customers via software development
• Experience with Azure Dev Ops, Octopus, and Jira Software
• Experience with integrations around the Service Now platform
• Experience leveraging AI tools in the software development lifecycle to improve quality and efficiency

• This is a fully remote management position. The successful candidate…