Solutions Architect

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The Senior Principal Software Engineer acts as a strategic bridge between complex business problems and technical implementation. In this high-impact individual contributor role, you will serve as the Technology Team Lead for enterprise-scale engagements, guiding polyglot engineering teams by mentoring engineers, ensuring code quality, and fostering professional growth in order to deliver on-time and on-budget solutions.

You are not just a coder, but a consultant-first technologist. You thrive in front of clients, capable of leading high-stakes discovery workshops, whiteboarding complex architectures live with stakeholders, and translating vague business needs into concrete technical roadmaps. You possess the breadth to architect distributed systems. You will be instrumental in the pre-sales process, helping clients visualize the technical possibilities while ensuring the eventual delivery adheres to rigorous engineering best practices.

Additionally, you bring a forward-thinking approach to developer tooling, demonstrating confidence with AI coding assistants and helping to define best practices for their effective use.

• Facilitate workshops and whiteboarding sessions with C-level executives, client Technical teams, and non-technical stakeholders to uncover root problems and define solution scope.
• Translate complex architectural decisions into business value propositions (e.g., Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) calculations, ROI on modernization).
• Act as the primary technical advisor to the client, building trust, managing expectations, and guiding them through technical trade-offs between "buy vs. build" and PaaS vs. IaaS options.
• Drive the technical portion of sales pursuits, quickly assessing client problem spaces to propose viable, scalable architectures.
• Define comprehensive solution architectures using documented Architecture Decision Records (ADRs). Evaluate and prescribe the right mix of cloud-native, PaaS, and SaaS solutions based on client maturity.
• Provide rigorous analysis on scaling strategies and cloud cost estimation to ensure proposed solutions are financially viable for the client.

• Lead cross-functional teams (Backend, Frontend, Dev Ops) to high efficacy. While you may not write every line of code, you must provide architectural guardrails and code-review guidance for distributed applications.
• Enforce engineering rigor from code to cloud. Ensure on-time, on-budget delivery by implementing best-in-class Dev Ops practices of IaC, trunk based development, and CI/CD that runs on every merge.
• Act as the technical anchor for code development, writing core logic, setting up baseline patterns for application runtimes, and unblocking the team on complex integration challenges.
• Elevate the skills of Senior and Principal engineers, teaching them not just how to code, but why specific architectural patterns matter.
• Contribute to Nerdery’s internal knowledge base by documenting patterns for implementations and leading internal show and tell sessions on modern application development.
• Contribute to the continuous adoption and innovation of Nerdery’s technology group, including the adoption of emerging technologies (specifically AI and LLMs) for software solutions and the software development lifecycle.
• Be a representative and advocate of Nerdery’s depth of talent by regularly publishing articles, blog posts, or whitepapers, and/or contributing to open source projects, and/or speaking at industry conferences to share knowledge, insights, and best practices in software and technology.

• Undergraduate or graduate degree in a computer-related field or coding bootcamp certificate and/or equivalent progressive years of experience.
• 12+ years of professional software development experience.
• 6+ years of experience in software architecture and technical leadership.
• Proven track record in a consultancy environment,…