and cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure. This role requires a balance of technical expertise, strategic planning, and leadership to drive architectural excellence and innovation across projects.
Key Responsibilities:
Technical Leadership:
• Provide technical leadership by analyzing business processes, applications, architecture, and infrastructure to identify pain points and recommend improvements.
• Lead technical discussions with internal and external stakeholders, creating and analyzing architecture diagrams, code, and data for actionable insights.
• Writing technical specifications based on business requirements for new features.
• Offer coaching and guidance across all levels of the organization, motivating teams to achieve shared goals. Including technical code reviews and coaching based on best practices.
• Mentor technical associates to enhance the team’s technical skills, foster a collaborative culture, and sustain engagement.
Architectural Design and Road Mapping:
• Analyze systems across business processes, applications, databases, and infrastructure. Document current states and build future-state architectural roadmaps across all tiers.
• Develop artifacts representing current and future state system architecture, including visualization, database, and application layers.
• Identify opportunities to enhance performance, stability, capacity, and resiliency of systems, architecture, databases, and processes, considering associated costs and risks. Platform and Process Optimization:
• Design and implement robust microservices leveraging .NET, JavaScript, TypeScript, Angular, AWS, and PostgreSQL.
• Optimize deployment strategies by leveraging physical, virtual, and cloud environments to meet performance and scalability needs. • Identify and implement improvements to ensure system capacity, performance, and operational excellence.
Operational Proficiencies:
• Optimize Resource Utilization: Analyze infrastructure usage and application performance to recommend cost-effective solutions and improvements.
• Implement Best Practices: Advocate and enforce industry standards for software development, deployment, and maintenance to enhance operational excellence.
• Collaborate with DevOps Teams: Partner with DevOps to automate deployments, CI/CD pipelines, and incident management workflows.
• Risk Mitigation and Recovery: Identify potential operational risks and design fail-safe architectures and disaster recovery strategies.
• Documentation and Training: Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for systems, and train teams on operational protocols and tools.
• Support Cross-Team Communication: Act as a liaison between technical teams and operational stakeholders to align priorities and objectives.
Required Skills:
• At least 12-15 years of technical experience in software development.
• At least 5 years of experience with full lifecycle development using Agile methodologies, including technical leadership for an Agile team.
• Proven ability to guide complex projects from initial concepts to successful launch.
• Expertise in .NET, C#, SQL, and cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure. JD Template for Software Architect - .NET
• Strong ability to communicate technical knowledge effectively to clients, stakeholders, and cross functional teams.
• Knowledge of business operations, terminology, and communication standards.
• Excellent analytical, design, and troubleshooting skills.
Preferred Skills:
• Experience in developing and deploying scalable, secure, and highly available solutions in cloud environments.
• Hands-on experience with architecture frameworks and automation tools.
• Strong understanding of standardization, security, and regulatory compliance in solution design.
• Proven track record of leading architecture initiatives in diverse, complex environments.
Netsmart is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer, providing equal employment and advancement opportunities to all individuals. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all associates. All employment decisions at Netsmart, including but not limited to recruiting, hiring, promotion and transfer, are based on performance, qualifications, abilities, education and experience. Netsmart does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, past or present military service, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.
Netsmart desires to provide a healthy and safe workplace and, as a government contractor, Netsmart is committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace in accordance with applicable federal law. Pursuant to Netsmart policy, all post-offer candidates are required to successfully complete a pre-employment background check, which is provided at Netsmart’s sole expense.
Skills Required
- At least 12-15 years of technical experience in software development
- At least 5 years of experience with full lifecycle development using Agile methodologies
- Proven ability to guide complex projects from initial concepts to successful launch
- Expertise in .NET, C#, SQL, and cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure
- Strong ability to communicate technical knowledge effectively
NetSmart Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about NetSmart and has not been reviewed or approved by NetSmart.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Offerings include a designated mental wellness day, paid volunteer time, telehealth, wellness events, and free 1:1 sessions with counselors and coaches. These wellbeing resources are positioned as stronger than many employers.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, and vision coverage are paired with short- and long‑term disability and telehealth. The breadth of core health coverage aligns with a comprehensive package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — PTO, paid holidays, paid volunteer time, and a designated mental wellness day are part of the offering, with some materials referencing flexible or unlimited PTO. This variety provides multiple avenues for time away.
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What We Do
Netsmart designs, builds and delivers electronic health records (EHRs), solutions and services that are powerful, intuitive and easy-to-use. Our platform provides accurate, up-to-date information that is easily accessible to care team members in behavioral health, care at home, senior living and social services. We make the complex simple and personalized so our clients can concentrate on what they do best: provide services and treatment that support whole-person care. By leveraging the powerful Netsmart network, care providers can seamlessly and securely integrate information across communities, collaborate on the most effective treatments and improve outcomes for those in their care. Our streamlined systems and personalized workflows put relevant information at the fingertips of users when and where they need it. For 50 years, Netsmart has been committed to providing a common platform to integrate care. SIMPLE. PERSONAL. POWERFUL. Our more than 2,200 associates work hand-in-hand with our 600,000+ users in more than 25,000 organizations across the U.S. to develop and deploy technology that automates and coordinates everything from clinical to financial to administrative.
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