System Architect
Remote (U.S.) | Full-Time | Quarterly Travel
We are partnering with a mid-market growing organization that is investing heavily in modern architecture, cloud transformation, and scalable systems. Their newly established Enterprise Architecture group is growing, and they are hiring a System Architect to help shape the next generation of business and technology capabilities.
This is a high-impact role for someone who understands how to navigate enterprise complexity, influence decisions without authority, and design flexible, scalable systems that serve both business and technical goals. Candidates must be able to think strategically while still being willing to get hands-on when the work requires it.
The Role
The System Architect plays a core role in defining and communicating the technical and architectural vision within a SAFe environment. This position partners closely with Product, Agile teams, the Release Train Engineer, and business stakeholders to ensure architecture consistently aligns with enterprise priorities.
The architect will support the the organization’s largest Release Trains. This requires the ability to manage multi-system architecture, connect high-level strategy with technical execution, and guide teams through complex design decisions, integrations, and architectural tradeoffs.
What You’ll Do
Align Architecture with Business Priorities
- Define enablers and create the architectural runway for upcoming features
- Participate in solution definition and PI Planning
- Define system-level NFRs and ensure architecture supports them
- Guide capacity planning for enablement and architecture work
Define and Communicate Architecture Vision
- Present architectural direction during PI Planning and refine as new insights emerge
- Provide continuous guidance to Agile teams during implementation
- Use abstraction, set-based design, and architectural flexibility to support system evolution
Guide System Design and Evolution
- Collaborate with teams to identify design inconsistencies and propose solutions
- Support spikes and architectural experiments to validate assumptions
- Balance architectural intent with team capacity, available tools, and real-world constraints
Build Quality & Support DevOps
- Promote built-in quality, early problem identification, and sustainable design
- Help teams address NFRs in ways that reduce rework and risk
- Support architecture that enables continuous delivery and cloud scalability
- Guide decisions around tooling, environments, and infrastructure
- Enable instrumentation for performance, user behavior, and operational insights
Must-Have Experience
We are seeking someone who brings depth, humility, and the ability to influence without authority.
- Former full-stack developer who transitioned into architecture
- Strong preference for Java or Python backgrounds
- Open to candidates coming from Salesforce or Appian architecture and wanting to broaden
- Has architected multiple systems at once in a complex environment
- Strong integration architecture background
- Functional and technical experience with BPM
- Ability to communicate clearly with both business leaders and engineering teams
- Self-starter who can lead through influence
- Willingness to be hands-on as needed
- Experience working within SAFe or similar Agile enterprise models
- Experience with microservices architecture
Preferred Experience
These skills will set a strong candidate apart:
- Insurance industry experience
- TOGAF certification
- SAFe certification
- Knowledge of Snowflake
- Familiarity with GCP, as the organization recently modernized much of its environment in the platform