Chief Architect

Your Mission as Chief Architect

Your mission as the Chief Architect at Energage is to create future-state product-line architecture that supports Energage’s suite of HRTech products, as well as addressing shorter-term architectural challenges. You’ll help identify issues with the current architecture and determine how to evolve the current architecture in an incremental manner. You will be hands-on so should be comfortable in C#/.Net, Application Architecture, and Cloud Architecture. You will be given the opportunity to identify the best approach needed to evolve the current architecture to one that positions Energage for the future, so you should be comfortable with leading, dealing with ambiguity, and driving through obstacles. You’ll collaborate closely with our Product Management, Experience Design, Data Architecture, Data Engineering, Data Science, Security, QA, IT, and Business Intelligence teams. 
Candidates who have been or are a Chief Architect at a mid-size Product Development company would be ideal.

Accountability & Impact:
In this role, you’ll...

• Lead the development of a cloud-based product-line software architecture that enables the evolution of legacy applications and the creation of new SaaS HRTech products.
• Collaborate in the creation of a roadmap for evolving the existing architecture to support the company’s business goals.
• Ensure the architecture satisfies both the functional and non-functional requirements.
• Effectively influence and communicate the architecture to stakeholders with varying degrees of technical understanding using verbal skills and supported by a set of artifacts that can be used as a living description of the architecture.
• Develop architectural solutions that are frugal and as simple as possible.
• Be prepared to spend a respectable amount of your time hands-on with POCs or teams to ensure the implementation of the recommended architecture doesn’t present any unforeseen challenges.

Required skills and experience:

• Experience leading the application architecture responsibility for a set of enterprise-class SaaS products.
• Experience with the development of a product-line architecture. 
• Experience working with multiple globally distributed teams, understanding their goals, and helping them understand and implement new architectural decisions.
• Extensive experience with C#/.Net (Framework, Core), web-based FE architectures, API Architectures, and Azure.
• Expertise with modern patterns and approaches to software architecture.
• Experience applying the appropriate lean/agile principles pragmatically.
• Experience with legacy modernization patterns and practices.
• Comfortable working with the business in order to create the appropriate Application Architectures,  as well as the various other architectural layers.
• Comfortable creating the minimally sufficient amount of documentation, including diagramming when appropriate.
• Believe in Lean/Agile principles while being flexible and non-dogmatic about what process to follow.
• An aversion to over-architecting and unnecessary complexity.
• Capable of working with a variety of stakeholders, multiple teams (on-shore and off-shore), and leading by influence.
• Minimum of 15+ years’ experience.

To succeed in this role, you will need to have most, if not all, of the requirements listed above. Given our current situation, we are unable to consider candidates who may have potential but no experience as a Chief Architect. Please include a cover letter with your application.

Nice to have:

• Experience in the development of HRTech products.
• Experience with AWS or willingness to learn about AWS.

This role is open exclusively to candidates in Eastern and Central time zones only given the need to communicate with our employees in India. While this is a remote role, candidates will be required to appear on-site in Exton, PA up to four times per year. Additional excluded locations:

• California 
• Massachusetts 
• New York City 
• Washington 
• Outside of the US

If you reside in one of the above excluded locations or time zones, we're afraid we are unable to consider your candidacy at this time,