Technical Architect

Job Title
Technical Lead Architect – Enterprise Grants Platform

Troy, MI (Hybrid)

Full Time 

Overview / Summary
The Technical Lead Architect will lead technical delivery and architecture for a mature grants management platform serving government and nonprofit clients across the United States and Canada. This role combines hands-on architectural leadership with day-to-day technical guidance for engineering, working closely with the Principal Product Owner to modernize and extend a configurable enterprise product while ensuring scalability, maintainability, and reuse across multiple client implementations.

Key Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end technical architecture, including application design, data architecture, integration approach, extensibility model, and nonfunctional requirements
• Lead engineering delivery in partnership with the Product Owner, translating business priorities into technical designs and implementation decisions
• Define and govern architecture standards for a configurable, multi-client product model
• Provide technical leadership through design reviews, code quality standards, troubleshooting, mentoring, and implementation oversight
• Design and optimize SQL schemas, queries, stored procedures, reporting structures, and data migration strategies
• Ensure support for complex grants workflows, auditability, compliance reporting, role-based access, and configuration needs
• Evaluate legacy components and guide modernization strategies while preserving business continuity
• Partner with implementation, support, and operations teams to resolve production issues and improve performance and release readiness
• Assess technical debt, integration requirements, and platform constraints; recommend architecture improvements
• Contribute to estimation, risk management, environment strategy, and technical communication with stakeholders

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including leadership as a technical lead, solution architect, or application architect
• Proven experience building or evolving configurable software products used by multiple customers or jurisdictions
• Strong SQL expertise, including schema design, performance tuning, complex queries, and enterprise data modeling
• Experience with architecture for workflow-driven systems, rules/configuration frameworks, reporting, and integrations
• Ability to lead delivery teams while remaining hands-on in technical design and decision-making
• Experience partnering with product owners or business leaders to shape delivery outcomes
• Strong understanding of maintainability, scalability, security, performance, and release quality in enterprise software
• Strong leadership and collaboration skills, including mentoring and working across cross-functional teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in grants management, case management, program management, government administration, or nonprofit technology platforms
• Familiarity with grantor and grantee workflows, compliance reporting, and public-sector audit requirements
• Experience supporting legacy product modernization in a multi-client production environment
• Experience with cloud modernization, API integrations, and configurable workflow or business rules engines
• Experience working with state government or nonprofit clients in the U.S. or Canada