About the Role:Job Title:Application Architect
Role Overview:We are seeking an experienced Application Architect to lead the architectural design, development, and evolution of enterprise applications and platforms. The ideal candidate will be responsible for defining scalable, modular, secure, and resilient architectures while driving technology selection, system integration, and engineering best practices.
The role requires close collaboration with product, engineering, security, and business teams to ensure solutions align with business objectives, technical requirements, and long-term growth strategies.
The architect will also leverage AI-augmented architecture practices and tools to accelerate system analysis, architecture documentation, design exploration, UI prototyping, and engineering delivery while maintaining security and compliance standards.
Roles & Responsibilities:- Lead application architecture and design, ensuring alignment with business objectives and technical best practices.
- Design scalable and modular architectures using microservices, API gateways, identity and access management (IAM), and integrated security solutions.
- Evaluate and recommend appropriate technologies, frameworks, and tools based on project requirements.
- Define integration strategies for internal systems, third-party services, APIs, and external platforms.
- Collaborate with security teams to establish security standards, including data encryption, authentication, authorization, and access controls.
- Monitor application performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement improvements to enhance scalability, reliability, and efficiency.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineering teams, ensuring adherence to architectural standards.
- Maintain architecture documentation, technical specifications, and architectural decision records.
- Work closely with product managers, developers, and stakeholders to translate business requirements into effective technical solutions.
- Explore and implement AI-assisted workflows to improve architecture design, development productivity, and documentation.
Required Experience & Qualifications:- 4-5 years of experience in Software Architecture, Application Architecture, or a similar technical role.
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Strong understanding of microservices architecture and design patterns, including service discovery and load balancing.
- Experience with API gateways and API management solutions such as Apigee or AWS API Gateway.
- Knowledge of IAM solutions such as Okta or Auth0 and authentication protocols such as OAuth 2.0.
- Understanding of DevSecOps practices, CI/CD tools such as Jenkins or GitLab CI, and automation frameworks.
- Experience with relational and NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL and MongoDB.
- Proficiency in containerization technologies such as Docker and orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools such as ELK Stack and Prometheus.
- Programming experience with Java or Python and scripting for automation.
- Experience with modern frontend and backend technologies, including React, Angular, Vue.js, Node.js, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, and Bash.
- Basic understanding of application security frameworks and tools such as OWASP.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and technical decision-making skills.
- Ability to lead technical discussions, influence architectural decisions, and communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications:- Experience integrating AI tools into application architecture, design, and development workflows.
- Familiarity with multi-tenant application architecture and localization/internationalization.
- Experience with design-token pipelines and cross-product design systems.
- Experience working in enterprise environments with security, compliance, and scalability requirements.
AI Tools & Exposure:- AI Design & Prototyping: Hands-on exposure to Claude and comparable AI-powered UI-generation and prototyping tools.
- AI-Assisted Development: Understanding of how AI tools can accelerate architecture design, coding, documentation, and engineering workflows.
- AI Adoption: Ability to quickly adopt emerging AI capabilities and apply them responsibly within security and compliance guidelines.
Location: Plano, TX (5 Days On-site)Salary and Other Compensation:The annual [salary/hourly rate] for this position is between [$150,000-160,000 annually]/[$80.00-90.00 per hour]. Factors which may affect pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.
Benefits:The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: [medical insurance] [dental insurance] [vision insurance] [401(k) retirement plan] [long-term disability insurance] [short-term disability insurance] [5 personal days accrued each calendar year. The Paid time off benefits meet the paid sick and safe time laws that pertains to the City/ State] [10-15 days of paid vacation time] [6 paid holidays and 1 floating holiday per calendar year] [Ascendion Learning Management System]
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Preferred Skills Application Architect
- Software Architecture
- Microservices
- API
- AI Design
- AI-Assisted Development
Job details Job ID 333369
Role Application Architect
Location Plano, Texas, US
Job type Direct Hire
Recruiter Mridul
Email mridul.chaudhary@ascendion.com
