Software Architect

Software Architect

Location: Phoenix Arizona
Department: Building Technology Solutions
Reports To: Commercial Development Manager

Summary

We are launching a strategic greenfield product initiative supported by a newly assembled crossfunctional team. We are seeking a Software Architect to define the technical vision and architecture for the initiative and to guide its implementation from early concept through production and scale.

This role serves as the endtoend technical authority for the product balancing modern architecture speed of delivery and innovation with enterprise standards for security reliability and maintainability. You will work closely with engineering data machine learning product and UX to ensure the platform is scalable extensible and aligned with longterm business goals.

This role is based in Phoenix Arizona.

What would you do as our Software Architect

• Define and own the overall system architecture for a new enterprisegrade product platform
• Partner with a newly formed crossfunctional team including:
• Backend and frontend engineers
• Data scientists and machine learning engineers
• UX designers and product leadership
• Enterprise platform security and infrastructure teams
• Establish architectural patterns standards and best practices across frontend backend and data systems
• Guide decisions around technology selection service boundaries APIs data models and integration patterns
• Ensure the architecture supports:
• MVP and rapid iteration phases
• Production readiness
• Longterm scalability performance and resiliency
• Design solutions that support datadriven and MLenabled capabilities
• Provide technical leadership through design reviews architectural documentation and mentoring engineers
• Balance innovation with enterprise governance security compliance and operational requirements
• Collaborate with customers stakeholders and other software product lines to align technical direction with business strategy and roadmap
• Support evolution of the platform as product requirements and scale change over time
• Other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• 8 years of professional software engineering experience including time in architectural or technical leadership roles
• Proven experience designing and delivering enterprisegrade systems
• Demonstrated success guiding products from greenfield/MVP stages through production and scaling
• Strong understanding of modern backend architectures (e.g. serviceoriented or modular architectures)
• Experience with TypeScriptbased backend systems (e.g. NestJS or similar frameworks)
• Comfort overseeing containerized environments (e.g. Docker) and modern deployment models
• Strong knowledge of API design database architecture and distributed system fundamentals
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders
• Experience working across multiple disciplines in productfocused teams

What makes you stand out

• Experience architecting dataintensive or MLenabled platforms
• Familiarity with Pythonbased systems and data pipelines
• Working knowledge of frontend frameworks such as Angular
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS Azure or GCP)
• Background in CI/CD DevOps collaboration and production operations
• Experience modernizing or integrating with existing enterprise platforms

WORK ENVIRONMENT

This role is based in either Austin Texas or Phoenix Arizona. This role interfaces with teams distributed across multiple geographies and functions requiring strong communication and organizational skills. Periodic travel to divisions customer sites events and ASSA ABLOY offices should be expected with domestic or international travel up to 20%.

What we offer

We are passionate about providing amazing opportunities and benefits so that you can enjoy a lifelong career with us.

• Annual Bonus.
• Continuous professional development opportunities and an environment that fosters internal growth and mobility.
• Competitive compensation and benefits package which includes multiple healthcare options tuition reimbursement and matching 401k.
• Generous holiday schedule and paid time offto refresh and recharge.
• Employee pricing on our products and discount programs for travel entertainment and more!

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY STATEMENT

ASSA ABLOY is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race color religion sex gender identity sexual orientation national origin disability veteran status or any other protected characteristic.

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