Job Description

Salary: 130,000 - $200,000 per year

Position Summary

Ariento is seeking a Lead Architect / Senior Developer to provide technical leadership and architectural governance while contributing directly to software development. This role owns solution technical design, guides engineering standards, and ensures that development activities follow a disciplined Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

The role combines architectural leadership with hands-on engineering responsibility. The Lead Architect / Senior Developer will guide the design of systems, integrations, and cloud infrastructure, lead a small team of offshore developers, while ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and maintainable.

Key Responsibilities

Solution Architecture & Technical Design

• Own technical design of new solutions and system capabilities
• Define application architecture, service structure, and integration patterns
• Review and approve technical designs prior to development
• Ensure consistency with architecture standards and best practices

Software Development Leadership

• Contribute directly to development using Python and Django
• Manage a small team of offshore developers
• Design and implement application services and APIs
• Guide development practices and code quality
• Support resolution of complex technical issues
• Experience implementing AI SDLC technologies and best practices

Integration Architecture

• Define architecture for external system integrations
• Design secure and scalable API and service communication patterns
• Ensure integrations follow reliability and error-handling standards
• Maintain documentation of integration dependencies and workflows

Cloud Architecture

• Guide system deployment and infrastructure design in Google Cloud
• Support scalable infrastructure patterns
• Ensure monitoring, logging, and operational visibility are incorporated into system design

Architecture Documentation

Maintain architecture documentation including:

• system architecture diagrams
• integration architecture
• deployment architecture
• data flow diagrams

Engineering Collaboration

• Participate in technical design discussions and engineering planning
• Review code and mentor developers
• Support technical estimation and implementation planning

SDLC Governance

• Support development standards and code review practices
• Define architecture review checkpoints within the SDLC
• Support CI/CD development practices and disciplined engineering processes

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in software engineering or related field
• 8+ years of experience in software engineering
• Strong experience developing applications using Python and Django
• Strong SDLC implementation and governance experience
• Experience designing scalable application architectures
• Strong understanding of REST APIs and system integrations
• Experience working with Google Cloud
• Experience working with Microsoft Office 365
• Experience with modern source control and development workflows
• Experience managing offshore software development teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing cloud-native or SaaS architectures
• Familiarity with NIST or FedRAMP security frameworks
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines
• Experience documenting architecture for complex systems

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Paid time off
• Health insurance
• Optional Dental and Vision insurance

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