Senior Solution Architect - Core & Data Platforms, AI/ML
Role Overview
Join our dynamic team as a Senior Solution Architect, where you will play a crucial role in designing and implementing innovative solutions AvidXchange’s core and shared software platforms, along with cutting-edge data platforms for integration, reporting, analytics, and AI/ML. As a Solution Architect, you will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to ensure the delivery of scalable, reliable, and high-performance solutions that meet our business objectives.
What you’ll do
Architecture Solutioning:
- Architect, design, and oversee the implementation of core and shared software platforms as well as data platforms for integration, reporting, analytics, and AI/ML capabilities to support the organization's strategic goals.
- Craft architectural solutions to meet business and product needs. Be a role model for the architectural ideas of other technical staff.
- Design scalable, secure, and efficient platforms and solutions.
- Ensures that individual initiative solution architectures align with the organization's enterprise architecture. They define and communicate architectural standards, principles, and guidelines to project teams. They evaluate solution architectures and assess their impact on the overall enterprise architecture, identifying any misalignments or conflicts.
Technology Leadership:
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to development teams, ensuring best practices and architectural standards are followed.
- Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies to drive continuous improvement in platform architecture.
- Drives continuous improvement by evaluating project architecture outcomes, collecting feedback, and identifying areas for enhancement.
- Collaborate and lead with other architects in the creation, adoption, and spread of company technology standards and principles for engineering teams.
- Provides guidance, mentoring, and leadership to other architects and project teams across their portfolio. They promote architectural best practices, knowledge sharing, and professional development within the organization. They may also participate in hiring, training, and performance evaluation of solution architects within the portfolio.
Collaboration and Communication:
- Collaborate with stakeholders, including business analysts, developers, and data scientists, to understand business requirements and translate them into effective solutions.
- Communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders in a clear and understandable manner.
- Understand, define, and communicate critical quality attributes or non-functional requirements. Simplify ideas for different audiences.
Continuous Improvement:
- Drives continuous improvement by evaluating project architecture outcomes, collecting feedback, and identifying areas for enhancement. They contribute to the evolution of architectural frameworks, methodologies, and processes. They stay updated with industry trends and best practices, applying them to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of project architectures.
What we’re looking for
- 10 or more years of full-time Architecture or Engineering experience, with at least half of that having solutions architecture responsibilities. We are looking for people who have been explicitly responsible for architecting solutions, who come from a technical background, and who have held both an explicit architecture role and/or were in a technical leadership role where architecture was a core function.
- Experience and knowledge with modern Architecture/Design practices (examples: Clean Architecture, Domain-Driven Design, Micro-service Architecture, Distributed Systems Architecture, Platform Thinking, standard modeling approaches and tools like C4 Modeling.
- Hand-on experience with Cloud Computing, with a preference & focus on Azure/.NET platform using some of the following example or similar technologies:
- Examples: App Services, Serverless Function Apps, AKS/containers/Kubernetes, Service Bus, Event Hubs, BLOB Storage, Azure SQL for MySQL/PostGreSQL, Azure Cosmos DB, APIM, Azure Pipelines, etc..).
- Experience in Architecture/Design of Data, Analytics, AI/ML Platforms using some of the following example or similar technologies:
- Examples: Databricks, Azure Data Lake; Data Ingestion Platforms/Services like Azure Event Hubs or Kafka, Azure Data Factory; Generative AI / LLM technologies like GPT-4, ChatGPT, Azure OpenAI Service, AWS Bedrock or similar; Copilot; Machine Learning (ML) technologies like Azure ML, AWS Sagemaker, TensorFlow or similar.
- Comfortable touching code and technology hands-on. While building production software is not your primary role, technical credibility is vital for communicating effectively with engineers and demonstrating technical excellence (e.g., building proof of concepts, sketching out ideas so you can experiment on, building reference implementations, and so on).
- Facilitation and communication skills. You will lead internal and external stakeholders to shared understandings of complex domains and propose technical solutions. You will need to be able to communicate the merits and tradeoffs of your ideas both to technical and nontechnical executives, as well as engineers and product owners.
- Demonstrated strategic thinking beyond the scope of your technical solution. Your work and designs are always part of a greater whole. Understanding how you impact other systems and people and articulating how it aligns with broader goals are important.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, or other related technical field of study.
About AvidXchange
AvidXchange is a leading provider of accounts payable (“AP”) automation software and payment solutions for middle-market businesses and their suppliers. By trade, we are a technology company, but if you ask anyone who works here, they’ll tell you our people are at the core of who we are. We focus on creating a culture of Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging, and are proud to be a safe place where teammates can bring their whole selves to work. At AvidXchange, mindset is everything. We are Connected as People, Growth Minded, and Customer Obsessed. These three mindsets represent our culture – who we are, who we’ve always been, and they guide us to improve every day. Since our founding in 2000 in Charlotte, NC, we’ve created a company of over 1,600 teammates working in one of our 5 offices across the U.S., or remotely. AvidXchange is proud to be Certified™ as a Great Place to Work®. The prestigious recognition is based on anonymous data from our teammates and makes official what our teammates have known for years – that AvidXchange is a Great Place to Work®.
Who you are:
- A go-getter with an entrepreneurial mindset – that means you are not afraid of taking risks, winning big or facing the unknown.
- Someone who understands that business is people centric. Connecting with others as humans first allows you to develop mutually beneficial working relationships.
- Focused on making a difference for our customers. AvidXchange exists to help solve complex problems for our customers so we can all realize our potential.
What you’ll get:
AvidXchange teammates (we call them AvidXers) get the perks and prestige of a publicly traded tech company paired with the flexibility of a founder-led startup. We help our AvidXers develop as professionals and as human beings, providing work/life balance, development programs, competitive benefits and equity options. At AvidXchange, we are building more than a tech company – we are building an experience. We remain committed to a culture where you can fully be 'you’ – connected with others, chasing big goals, and making a meaningful impact. If you want to help us grow while realizing your potential and creating stories you’ll tell for years, you’ve come to the right place.
AvidXers enjoy:
- 18 days PTO*
- 11 Holidays (8 company recognized & 3 floating holidays)
- 16 hours per year of paid Volunteer Time Off (VTO)
- Competitive Healthcare
- High Deductible Heath Plan Option that has $0 monthly premium for teammate-only coverage
- 100% AvidXchange paid Dental Base Plan Coverage
- 100% AvidXchange paid Life Insurance
- 100% AvidXchange paid Long-Term Disability
- 100% AvidXchange paid Short-Term Disability
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) - Provides counseling services, legal and financial consultations and health advocacy for Teammates and their eligible dependents
- Onsite Health Clinic with Atrium Health** - available to Teammates and their eligible dependents
- 401k Match up to 4%
- Parental Leave: 8 weeks 100% paid by AvidXchange***
- Discounts on Pet, Home, and Auto insurance
- BrightDime Financial Wellness Tool, offered free to teammates
- WeeCare Childcare Service: helps teammates find affordable daycare, childcare, and tutors 40% less expensive than traditional daycare centers
- Perks at Work: free discount program that provides teammates the opportunity to save on items from electronics, movie tickets, car buying, vacations, and more
- Onsite gym fitness center, yoga studio, and basketball court****
- Tuition Reimbursement up to the federal maximum of $5,250*****
- Hybrid Workplace Flexibility
- Free parking
*Fully granted from beginning of year, pro-rated if hired mid-year
**Charlotte location only
***Must be full-time for at least 3 months
****Charlotte location only
*****Must be full-time for at least one year
Equal Employment Opportunity
AvidXchange is an equal opportunity employer. AvidXchange is committed to equal employment opportunity in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. AvidXchange will not discriminate against applicants for employment on any legally recognized basis. This includes, but is not limited to veteran status, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age and physical or mental disability.