Architect; Software Code Quality & Integration

Architect (Software Code Quality & Integration)

Location:

Houston, TX

Department:
Information Technology

Term:
Long Term Contract to Hire

Type:
Full-Time

Schedule:

5 days, 8 hours per day

• Code Review Leadership
  • Provides leadership in code reviews, setting expectations beyond standard participation
  • Defines and reinforces best practice standards for code quality across teams
  • Prioritizes review of critical paths and shared components to ensure system-wide reliability
  • Enforces best practices including naming conventions, error handling, logging/observability, and security standards
• Best Practices Ownership
  • Establishes and maintains coding standards and design patterns aligned with best practices
  • Drives consistency through reusable frameworks and shared libraries
  • Actively promotes and ensures adoption of standards across teams
• Large-Scale Integration Expertise
  • Applies best practices when integrating across internal platforms and third‑party systems
  • Accounts for reliability, maintainability, and scalability in cross-system interactions
• Governance and Guardrails
  • Implements review gates, coding standards, and automated quality checks
  • Leverages CI/CD pipelines to enforce linting, security scanning, and test coverage requirements
  • Defines and upholds clear criteria for code readiness prior to production deployment

• Deep ability for evaluating large, complex codebases, identifying risks, inconsistencies, and improvement opportunities.
• Strong understanding of API, integration design and code change impacts.
• Shows a solid understanding of best practice coding techniques for managing failures in distributed systems, resulting in reliable and maintainable code.
• Defines practical, best practice coding standards that are widely followed and improve code consistency and quality.
• Exhibits practical coding proficiency, enabling direct contribution when necessary.
• Exhibits sound judgment in accounting for cross‑team and cross‑product scaling impacts, including dependencies, integration points, and system stability.
• Light amount of QA testing.