Senior Software Architect

Senior Software Architect

We are seeking a Senior Software Architect to lay the architectural foundation for a critical enterprise modernization initiative. This role is not a proposal and not a delivery build
—it is a hands‑on architectural engagement to define the future‑state platform, migration strategy, and standards that will enable a development team to execute with confidence.

This project has a strong architecture‑first approach
, executive pressure to succeed, and a clear mandate to avoid “big bang” rewrites.

The system supports a mission‑critical, highly visible, and deeply meaningful end‑to‑end process
, where stability, performance, and reliability are non‑negotiable.

• Modernizing a large, legacy enterprise system.
• Batch‑based processing (twice daily) that must evolve toward real‑time and messaging‑based flows
  .
• The business process itself remains largely unchanged—the focus is on:
  Stability, Scalability, Performance, Maintainability, and Delivery predictability.

Define a complete architectural blueprint that enables systematic modernization—without premature deep builds or over‑engineering.

This phase is about clarity, alignment, and risk reduction
, not writing production code.

• Establish the future‑state architecture aligned with enterprise standards.
• Design a phased migration roadmap (no big‑bang cutover).
• Define: architecture patterns, development standards, infrastructure approach, observability and resiliency strategies, improve estimation accuracy for future phases, identify risks, dependencies, and integration points early, and enable a 7‑person engineering team to begin execution.
• Technology recommendations (Java & AWS strongly preferred).
• Frontend direction (likely React).
• Messaging and real‑time processing approach.
• Migration roadmap with clearly chunked phases.
• Inputs to accurate delivery estimates.
• Identification of: key dependencies, integration points, technical and organizational risks, required skill sets and resources.

• Senior‑level Software Architect experience (enterprise scale).
• Proven success modernizing large, legacy systems
  .
• Experience transitioning from batch to event‑driven / real‑time architectures
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• Ability to work closely with an internal architect who knows the current systems.
• Strong communication and influence skills.
• Ability to mentor development teams and elevate architectural maturity.

Location:

Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area.