Location / Remote: Hybrid in Cleveland, OH, 44143 (1 day per week onsite).
Employment Type: 6-month W-2 contract (possibility to extend for multiple years)
Compensation: up to 100/hour W-2 (depending on experience).
Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, LTD/STD, HSA/FSA, term life, and supplemental health insurances (e.g., Aflac) for all employees (and their families if needed).
This senior, hands-on Software Architect role focuses on building and stabilizing cloud integration services on the Microsoft stack. You will design integration patterns, write and ship production C#/.NET code, and improve reliability of event-driven and API-based workflows on Azure. Success is measured by integration pipelines that are resilient, observable, and easier to operate, with clear architecture decisions that teams can execute.
Responsibilities:
- Design and implement enterprise integration architectures using REST APIs, microservices, asynchronous messaging, and event-driven patterns.
- Build and maintain production services in C#/.NET/.NET Core, including core integration components and shared libraries.
- Develop and operate Azure-based integration solutions using Azure Functions, Service Bus, and API Management to support secure, scalable connectivity.
- Diagnose and resolve failures in production integration pipelines, driving issues from detection through root-cause analysis and permanent corrective action.
- Define reliability patterns such as idempotency, retries, dead-letter handling, message validation, and back-pressure to reduce incidents and data inconsistencies.
- Establish observability standards across integrations, including structured logging, correlation IDs, metrics, alerts, and actionable telemetry dashboards.
- Review and guide technical designs and code changes to ensure performance, maintainability, and alignment with integration architecture standards.
- Partner with engineering stakeholders to plan and deliver integration enhancements, balancing near-term stabilization with longer-term modernization.
Required Skills:
- 8 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience with significant recent production development in C#/.NET/.NET Core, including writing and supporting production code.
- Hands-on experience implementing Azure integrations using Azure Functions, Azure Service Bus, and Azure API Management.
- Strong background in enterprise integration architecture across REST APIs, microservices, asynchronous messaging, event-driven architecture, and distributed systems.
Preferred Skills:
- Experience with SQL and data transformation concepts to support integration mapping, validation, and reconciliation workflows.
- Familiarity with CI/CD and DevOps practices, including build/release automation and environment promotion for integration services.
- Experience using AI-assisted engineering tools to speed up development, debugging, test generation, or operational automation.
- Demonstrated track record stabilizing failing or unstable production integration pipelines through systematic troubleshooting and remediation.
- Deep operability expertise, including idempotency, retries, validation, failure handling, observability, logging/telemetry, and root-cause analysis practices.
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