Senior Technical Architect Senior Full Stack Developer

Role: Senior Technical Architect / Senior Full Stack Developer

Location: San Diego CA (Onsite)

Type: Contract

Role Balance: 70% Hands On Full Stack Development 30% Architecture

Core Full Stack Engineering Expertise (Primary 70%)

• .NET Centric Application Development (Primary Focus)
• Strong hands-on proficiency with the ability to review optimize and guide development practices.
• Designs builds and maintains scalable high performance application components using frameworks.
• Develops business critical features across backend and integration layers.
• Diagnoses complex multi component technical issues and delivers both short term mitigations and long term architectural solutions.
• Provides expert troubleshooting guidance and continuously improves development and architecture delivery processes.
• Structures solution approaches prioritizes work effectively and evaluates risk cost and business impact of technical decisions.
• Strong hands-on proficiency in relational databases including SQL Server and Oracle and understanding of web servers

APIs Integration & Data (Hands On)

• Expertise in API and integration technologies including REST SOAP asynchronous messaging and event driven integration patterns.
• Hands-on experience implementing APIs and integrations based services and frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with integration middleware such as message queues brokers and API gateways.
• Strong understanding of data architecture including OLTP vs. OLAP workloads relational and NoSQL databases indexing strategies data lifecycle management and encryption at rest.
• Experience designing data integration and migration strategies including dual write patterns shadow reads backfill pipelines and controlled cutover approaches.

Security Embedded in Development

• Strong knowledge of enterprise security architecture including Identity and Access Management (IAM) zero trust principles and secrets management.
• Integrates security into the SDLC through secure design practices static and dynamic analysis and dependency governance.
• Applies system and application hardening standards including encryption protocols network ACLs firewall policies API authentication OAuth and mutual TLS.
• Applies secure coding practices applications and services.

Modernization & Delivery

• Supports modernization and migration initiatives including re-platforming refactoring rehosting or replacement strategies.
• Contributes to modernization of applications toward modular monoliths or microservices where appropriate.
• Balances technical debt reduction with ongoing feature delivery.

Architecture & Design (Secondary 30%)

• Solution Architecture
• Ability to architect and design end to end technical solutions that align with and directly support business objectives.
• Designs robust scalable secure and resilient architectures across application integration and data layers.
• Evaluates architectural decisions for their impact across application integration data security and operational domains.
• Provides architectural guidance embedded within delivery teams rather than operating as a detached governance role.

Architectural Foundations & Patterns

• Strong command of architectural styles and patterns including monoliths modular monoliths microservices SOA event driven architectures CQRS/Event Sourcing serverless hexagonal architecture and domain driven design (DDD).
• Applies architectural patterns pragmatically based systems favoring simplicity and maintainability.
• Produces clear architectural artifacts using C4 models UML diagrams (class sequence deployment) and Architecture Decision Records (ADRs).
• Defines and evaluates quality attribute scenarios (performance availability scalability security maintainability) to guide design decisions.

Cloud Platform & DevOps

• (Optional / Good to Have)
• Expectation: Ability to collaborate review designs and contribute when required - not a primary accountability.
• Familiarity with at least one major cloud platform (AWS or Azure) with working knowledge of others.
• Exposure to Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Experience or familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker Kubernetes).
• Understanding of modern CI/CD practices including blue green and canary deployments.
• Awareness of reliability and operability concepts such as observability capacity planning and RPO/RTO targets.

Enterprise & Platform Awareness

• (Optional / Contextual Not a Core Requirement)
• Awareness of enterprise infrastructure and platform components middleware platforms Linux and Windows servers virtualization (VMware) networking storage and enterprise backup systems.
• Conceptual understanding of network architecture and design including switches routers DNS DHCP load balancing firewalls and routing protocols.
• Familiarity with hybrid environments spanning on premises data centers and cloud platforms.
• High level understanding of storage and data protection concepts including replication backup and restore and disaster recovery (DR).
• Expectation: Ability to understand platform constraints and collaborate effectively with infrastructure and platform teams - not to own or operate enterprise platforms or networks.

Governance Risk & Compliance (Lightweight / Advisory)

• Participates in threat modeling and architecture risk discussions as part of solution design.
• Aligns application designs with organizational security compliance and audit requirements.
• Contributes to architectural standards and best practices without owning enterprise level governance.
• Ensures solutions meet nonfunctional requirements while maintaining delivery velocity.

Domain Specific (Optional)

• Understanding of Managed IoT services such as Azure IoT Hub/IoT Central/DPS AWS IoT Core/IoT Device Management GCP or equivalent platforms.