Application Architect

Position Focus The Application Architect ensures that our software platform and solutions maintain interoperability and velocity across all implementation our evolving engineering culture architecture is a shared practice focused on making hard-to-change decisions. You will help shift our architecture from a centralized bottleneck to an interactive pull-based capability enabling developers to build polyglot services that behave as first-class citizens in our ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities

Execution & Agentic Enablement

• Design & Document: Design application services and document interfaces patterns and decisions with a focus on agility performance maintainability and interoperability.

• Codify the Architecture: Translate conceptual solutions into codified instructions and tuned markdown files for Agentic Enablement (IDE) allowing software engineers to dynamically pull architectural standards into their local workflow.

• Drive Validation: Define and refine validation rules and scoring mechanisms to ensure architectural intent (e.g. correct boundaries policy metadata) is provably reflected in runtime behavior not just in design artifacts.

Planning & Intake Shaping

• Early Shaping: Actively participate in the Discover & Define intake phase to evaluate incoming feature concepts against core solution domains. explicitly catching boundary violations before technical design hardens.

• Curate the Active State: Maintain application solution artifacts in centralized repositories ensuring our body of knowledge reflects a single coherent reality for both human consumers and evolving agentic systems.

Continuous Feedback & Operations

• Close the Loop: Actively participate in the Continuous Feedback Loop by translating operational realities systemic architectural debt and telemetry into actionable updates for our agentic instructions and platform backlogs.

• Align to Customer Value: Ensure the alignment of new capabilities to the customers business objectives and assist in the strategic resolution of complex cross-domain customer issues.

Creating a Culture of Trust & Mentorship

• Distribute Capability: Foster a culture of communication by mentoring staff engineers and technical leads helping them apply architecture principles independently without requiring direct intervention for foundational issues.

• Collaborative Problem Solving: Engage directly with implementation product and design teams to solve complex design problems and ensure suitable collaboration across teams servicing single customer-focused features.

Qualifications :

Qualifications

• 812 years of experience in software engineering with significant experience in application or solution architecture roles

• Strong experience designing and building distributed systems APIs and service-based architectures (e.g. microservices event-driven systems)

• Demonstrated ability to define and apply architecture principles patterns and standards that enable scalability maintainability and interoperability

• Experience working in polyglot environments with familiarity across multiple programming languages and frameworks

• Experience working with or enabling AI-assisted development tools (e.g. code generation copilots) or designing systems that support AI-driven workflows.

• Strong understanding of system boundaries domain modeling and service design with the ability to identify and prevent architectural drift

• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams (engineering product design) to shape solutions from concept through delivery

• Proven ability to influence and guide engineers and technical leads without direct authority

• Experience creating and maintaining clear technical documentation (e.g. architecture decisions interface definitions patterns)

• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to navigate ambiguity and make pragmatic design decisions

• Familiarity with modern development practices including CI/CD observability and cloud-based platforms

• Experience using data and operational feedback to improve system design and reduce technical debt

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)

Additional Information :

Life at Assent

Wellness: We believe that you and your familys well being is important. As a result we offer vacation time that increases with tenure comprehensive benefits packages (details vary by country) life leave days and more.

Financial Benefits: Its not all about the money well its a little about the money. We understand that financial health is important and we offer a competitive base salary a corporate bonus program retirement savings options and more.

Life at Assent: There is purpose beyond your work. We provide our team members with flexible work options volunteer days and opportunities to get involved in corporate giving initiatives.

Lifelong Learning: At Assent curiosity is not only valued but encouraged. You will receive professional development days that are available to you the day you start.

At Assent we are committed to growing and sustaining an environment where our team members feel included valued and heard. Our diversity and equal opportunity practices are guided and championed by our Diversity and Inclusion Working Group and our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs).

Our commitment to diversity equity and inclusion includes recruiting and retaining team members from diverse backgrounds and experiences and fostering a culture of belonging where all team members are included treated with dignity and respect promoted on their merits and placed in positions to contribute to business success.

If you require assistance or accommodation throughout any part of the interview and selection process please contact and we will be happy to help.  

We use AI to support parts of our recruitment process such as note-taking and initial shortlisting based on job-related qualifications. AI does not make hiring decisions. All candidates will speak with a real person and final decisions are always made by our recruitment team.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time