RESPONSIBILITIES:
Kforce has a client that is seeking a Senior Software Architect in Atlanta, GA.
Responsibilities:
* Establishes quality standards and drives system design decisions that prevent defects, leading material improvements that eliminate recurring classes of problems
* Serves as the team's expert resource on AI-driven development practices and LLM usage, advocating for and driving adoption of AI-assisted development tools across the engineering organization
* Leads participation in the full development life cycle, including requirements gathering, analysis, and design, taking ownership of significant components
* Evaluates business risk and customer impact to make strategic technical trade-off decisions
* Mentors engineers in technical decision-making, including risk evaluation and trade-off analysis
* Proactively identifies and resolves complex problems, implementing sustainable solutions that prevent recurrence
* Defines, communicates, and owns architectural decisions, including tenancy models, service boundaries, performance and cost tradeoffs, extensibility, and safe upgrade paths, to meet current and future needs for scaling, performance, security, and reliability
* Identifies and implements process improvements across the engineering organization
* Creates and reviews system designs, applying appropriate architectural patterns, idioms, and data structures
* Takes full ownership of assigned work and team deliverable quality, including advancing test automation strategy and implementation, and is highly accountable for how software performs in production
* Ensures comprehensive documentation across all development phases and guides others in producing it
* Contributes directly to code on an ongoing basis using approved AI-assisted development tools
* Leads post-acquisition technical integration efforts, including data migration planning, security assessments, and compliance evaluation
REQUIREMENTS:
* Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field preferred
* Typically requires a minimum of 10 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; Or 8 years and a Master's degree; Or a PhD with 6 years of experience; Or equivalent experience with a typical range of 12-15 years
* Hands-on experience with containerized workloads
* History of architecting and delivering enterprise-scale software systems in production environments
* Background in mentoring or leading technical direction in an individual contributor capacity, without formal people management responsibility
* Track record working within an AI-augmented software development workflow, such as Claude Code or comparable agentic development tools
* Recent work with AWS, C#, Containerized workloads, ORMs, and GitHub Actions
* Understanding of infrastructure and hardware-level constraints affecting software performance
* Exposure to integration patterns across distributed systems
* Proficiency in Claude Code, Codex, or comparable agentic AI development tools
* Applies AI/ML tools to enhance development efficiency and accelerate task completion
* Deep expertise in .NET8+, ASP.NET, and ORMs
* Strong command of relational database design and management
* Exposure to NoSQL-type databases like Redis, DynamoDB, or Elasticsearch
* Proficiency in HTTP, REST APIs, and messaging queue architectures
* Skilled in architecting and building cloud-native enterprise software
* Skilled in applying microservices and monolithic architecture patterns
* Fluent in concurrency and observability practices in production systems
* Capacity to present and defend complex technical solutions under scrutiny from highly technical stakeholders
* Effective communicator and collaborator across the organization
* Practiced in Agile software development methodologies
* Postgres and React knowledge a plus
The pay range is the lowest to highest compensation we reasonably in good faith believe we would pay at posting for this role. We may ultimately pay more or less than this range. Employee pay is based on factors like relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, location, performance, union contract and business needs. This range may be modified in the future.
We offer comprehensive benefits including medical/dental/vision insurance, HSA, FSA, 401(k), and life, disability & ADD insurance to eligible employees. Salaried personnel receive paid time off. Hourly employees are not eligible for paid time off unless required by law. Hourly employees on a Service Contract Act project are eligible for paid sick leave.
Note: Pay is not considered compensation until it is earned, vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any compensation remains in Kforce's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified in its discretion consistent with the law.
This job is not eligible for bonuses, incentives or commissions.
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- Dice Id: kforcecx
- Position Id: ITEQG2184070
- Posted 10 days ago
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