- Company: Get A Job.ai
- Location: United States
- Salary: Pay not listed
Website Get A Job.ai
Represented by Get A Job.ai
About This Opportunity
We are representing a confidential technology consulting organization seeking a Lead Software Architect for a 100% remote position in the United States. This is a full-time, direct W2 engagement offering exceptional career growth potential within an established firm delivering enterprise-scale cloud and distributed systems solutions.
U.S. Citizens, Green Card Holders, EAD Holders, and H-1B transfer candidates are encouraged to apply. New H-1B sponsorship is not available for this role.
Responsibilities
- Define and drive enterprise software architecture strategy across multiple products and engineering organizations
- Design highly scalable, fault-tolerant, cloud-native distributed systems for enterprise-scale workloads
- Establish architecture principles, technical standards, and governance practices to improve software quality
- Lead architecture reviews, technical design sessions, and engineering decision-making for high-impact initiatives
- Partner with executive leadership and product teams to align technology strategy with business objectives
- Drive platform modernization including microservices adoption, cloud migration, API strategy, and event-driven architectures
- Lead performance optimization, scalability planning, and system resiliency improvements
- Mentor Staff and Senior Engineers while fostering architectural best practices and technical innovation
- Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend strategic investments
- Author architecture documentation, technical RFCs, design specifications, and Architecture Decision Records (ADRs)
- Contribute hands-on to critical architectural components and proof-of-concepts
- Champion DevSecOps, observability, automation, and operational excellence
What We're Looking For
Required:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical discipline
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience with significant enterprise-scale platform design and delivery
- Proven expertise architecting and deploying large-scale distributed systems in production
- Advanced programming proficiency in Java, Go, C++, C#, or similar backend technologies
- Deep understanding of microservices, distributed computing, API design, messaging systems, and event-driven architectures
- Strong expertise in AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform
- Extensive experience with performance engineering, scalability, high availability, and disaster recovery
- Demonstrated success leading cross-functional technical initiatives across multiple teams
- Strong understanding of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), observability, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and DevOps practices
- Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills
Preferred:
- Public technical contributions: conference presentations, published papers, technical blogs, patents, or open-source leadership
- Experience leading multi-year enterprise modernization or digital transformation programs
- Knowledge of cloud governance and large-scale cloud cost optimization strategies
- Experience designing solutions for regulated industries (financial services, healthcare, government)
- Advanced degree or recognized industry certifications in software architecture or cloud technologies
- Experience with Kubernetes, service mesh technologies, enterprise integration patterns, and AI-enabled platforms
How We Work With You
When you apply through Get A Job.ai, our talent team will screen your background and qualifications. If there's a strong match, we'll conduct an initial interview to discuss your experience and career goals. We will then submit your profile to our client for consideration. Please do not contact the client directly—all communication regarding this opportunity should go through Get A Job.ai to ensure proper representation.
Pay
Pay via Get A Job.ai: $175,000–$200,000 annually
Equal Opportunity
Get A Job.ai is committed to equal employment opportunity for all applicants regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
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National unemployment rate in US: 4.2% — via World Bank
National job openings rate: 4.4% — via BLS JOLTS
Private-sector wage growth (year over year): 3.1% — via FRED
National quits rate: 2.0% — via FRED (BLS JOLTS)
Weekly initial unemployment claims: 203,000 — via FRED
GDP per capita in US: $90,027 — via World Bank
Consumer price inflation in US: 2.9% (annual) — via World Bank
Real GDP growth in US: 2.2% (annual) — via World Bank
Average hours worked per year in US: 1,800 — via OECD
About this role & career path
Traits that fit this role
- Innovation
- Adaptability
- Achievement Orientation
- Intellectual Curiosity
- Attention to Detail
Source: O*NET Work Styles (Distinctiveness Rank).
Typical preparation needed: Job Zone 4: Considerable Preparation Needed. Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not. — via O*NET
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Salary & compensation
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Listing facts
- Role Lead Software Architect
- Employer Get A Job.ai
- Location United States
- Type Full Time
- Pay (from listing) Pay not listed
- Posted September 3, 2026
- Apply by October 3, 2026
- Country United States
- Overview Full job description on this page (511 words)
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- Analyze information to determine, recommend, and plan installation of a new system or modification of an existing system.
- Analyze user needs and software requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints.
- Confer with data processing or project managers to obtain information on limitations or capabilities for data processing projects.
- Confer with systems analysts, engineers, programmers and others to design systems and to obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements and interfaces.
- Consult with customers or other departments on project status, proposals, or technical issues, such as software system design or maintenance.
- Coordinate installation of software system.
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