Solution Architect
Overview
Senior Solution Architects at AvidXchange are senior technical leaders who drive architectural direction and enable technical transformation across product and engineering teams. This role focuses on designing, influencing, and delivering complex, distributed solutions that meet both functional and non-functional business requirements. Solution Architects act as technical stewards for their domain, ensuring solutions align with enterprise architecture principles, standards, and long-term business strategy while empowering engineering teams to build high-quality, scalable software.
What You'll Do:
· Create architectural designs that meet functional and non-functional requirements while aligning with enterprise architecture principles, standards, and patterns.
· Demonstrate practitioner-level skill in designing and implementing complex systems with multiple integrations across domains.
· Own solution architecture for individual large cross functional projects or initiatives from inception through delivery.
· Design solutions using appropriate integration approaches and communication patterns, clearly explaining the rationale behind chosen methods.
· Architect complex distributed systems while clearly articulating and evaluating trade-offs related to scalability, reliability, consistency, cost, and operational complexity.
· Create and maintain solution architecture artifacts appropriate to the scope and complexity of initiatives.
· Lead complex technical discussions and mentor engineers and junior architects in solution design and implementation.
· Design and execute end-to-end technical solutions composed of multiple collaborating systems that support growth, scalability, and business outcomes.
· Uphold and promote architecture standards, principles, and guidelines across teams within assigned domains.
· Proactively research, evaluate, and adopt emerging technologies - Including AI-enabled capabilities—to enhance solution quality and effectiveness, and actively promote adoption with teammates.
· Ensure NFRs are explicitly considered, documented, and traceable within solution designs.
Collaborate closely with product, engineering, and platform teams to resolve dependencies and unblock delivery.
Assess trade-offs with an eye toward both immediate and long-term impact, including cost.
What We're Looking For:
. Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent.
· 10-15 years of professional engineering and/or architecture experience, with significant responsibility for solution architecture.
· Demonstrated ability to write software and build proof-of-concepts to validate designs and technologies.
· Strong understanding of modern modeling approaches (e.g., domain-driven design, C4).
· Excellent facilitation and communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences.
· 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.
· Expertise with Azure, .NET/C#, and distributed system fundamentals.
Preferred Qualifications
· Prior experience in Payment systems
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. 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 1,500 teammates working 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 growing 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, and competitive benefits. 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
- 401(k) Match: 100% match on the first 3% of your salary, plus 50% match on the next 2%
- Parental Leave: 8 weeks 100% paid by AvidXchange**
- Discounts on Pet, Home, and Auto insurance
- 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
**Must be full-time for at least 3 months
***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.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent
- 10-15 years of professional engineering and/or architecture experience
- Demonstrated ability to write software and build proofs-of-concept
- Strong understanding of modern modeling approaches
- Excellent facilitation and communication skills
- Expertise with Azure, .NET/C#, and distributed system fundamentals
AvidXchange Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about AvidXchange and has not been reviewed or approved by AvidXchange.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is positioned as comprehensive, spanning medical, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, mental health support, and FSAs. On-site fitness and wellness resources at the Charlotte headquarters further strengthen the perceived health-and-wellbeing offering.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support includes a 401(k) with a company match and immediate vesting, which can improve perceived value early in tenure. This feature supports longer-term financial planning without delayed eligibility.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off options include PTO, floating holidays, and paid volunteer time, providing multiple avenues for planned and purpose-driven time away from work. These programs can improve overall perceived total rewards even when base-pay sentiment varies.
AvidXchange Insights
What We Do
AvidXchange is the accounts payable automation industry leader for mid-market businesses serving more than 5,550 customers & 400,000 suppliers nationwide.
