Software Architect Houston, TX

QISG leverages Quantas comprehensive resources to deliver collaborative solutions for our partners energy infrastructure needs. We use in-house talent expertise and resources to plan design engineer manage conduct maintenance on and construct projects.

Our turnkey service capabilities provide our customers with efficiency consistency attention to detail and safe execution. The QISG team brings together Engineering Safety Quality Material Procurement QA/QC Right-of-Way Acquisition Scheduling Environmental Planning Permitting Title and Land Management expertise that ensure outstanding results for our clients.

QISG leverages Quantas comprehensive resources to deliver collaborative solutions for energy infrastructure needs. We bring together engineering safety quality procurement QA/QC scheduling environmental planning permitting and land management expertise to design and execute complex infrastructure projects with efficiency consistency and safety at the core.

We are actively modernizing how software is built and delivered across the organization using cloud data and AI-driven technologies to accelerate execution and improve how teams work at scale.

As a Software Architect you will define and lead the technical foundation for how software is designed built deployed and scaled across QISG. You will serve as the senior technical authority on high-impact initiatives ensuring solutions are robust secure maintainable and aligned to business needs.

You will:

• Lead high-stakes software and AI engineering engagements end-to-end from discovery and architecture through delivery and rollout
• Define reference architectures engineering standards and reusable frameworks that guide how software is built across the organization
• Establish best practices for CI/CD testing deployment observability versioning and production support
• Design and build full-stack solutions spanning frontend backend APIs data systems and integrations
• Create scalable production-grade platforms that enable analytics automation and AI-powered workflows
• Ensure software solutions are secure governed and aligned with enterprise standards (identity access control data classification and risk management)
• Configure observability and monitoring for applications including AI-enabled systems to track performance usage and reliability
• Mentor and elevate engineering teams through design reviews pair programming coaching and technical leadership
• Partner directly with executives and business leaders to translate strategy into scalable technical solutions
• Continuously improve engineering maturity by introducing reusable assets accelerators and standardized patterns

You will focus on building and enabling enterprise-grade software capabilities such as:

• Establishing engineering standards and software development best practices across teams
• Designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines for rapid and reliable deployments
• Building reusable frameworks platforms and accelerators that improve delivery speed over time
• Developing full-stack applications that streamline workflows and enable better decision-making
• Implementing observability logging and monitoring systems for both traditional and AI-driven applications
• Partnering with business and technical stakeholders to ensure solutions are aligned with real operational needs
• Capturing repeatable patterns into shared libraries and internal platforms to scale impact across engagements

• 8 years of experience in software engineering solutions architecture ML/AI engineering or technical consulting
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering Information Systems Mathematics or related field (or equivalent experience)
• Strong software engineering fundamentals including version control testing CI/CD and production-grade system design
• Strong proficiency in modern programming languages such as Python and/or JavaScript/TypeScript
• Experience designing and delivering full-stack systems in production environments
• Working knowledge of enterprise security principles including IAM data classification and system governance
• Experience with modern AI and software engineering tools including LLMs agents RAG prompt/context engineering and AI-assisted development
• Proven experience taking systems from prototype to production including monitoring evaluation scaling and reliability engineering
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex multi-stakeholder technical initiatives with measurable business impact
• Strong executive communication skills with the ability to translate technical decisions into business outcomes

• Experience in energy utilities EPC infrastructure or other field-based industries
• Experience building scalable internal platforms frameworks or developer accelerators
• Experience establishing engineering practices in fast-scaling or transformation environments
• Exposure to Claude Anthropic APIs or AI-native development tooling
• Experience in forward-deployed or customer-facing engineering roles

• Competitive base salary

• Generous PTO & paid holidaysto maintain work-life balance

• 401(k) with a generous matchto plan for your future

• Comprehensive benefits medical dental vision and life insurance

• Weekly payfor consistent reliable compensation

• Great mentoring & career growth opportunities we invest in your development
  
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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race color religion national origin or ancestry sex (including gender pregnancy sexual orientation and/or gender identity) age disability genetic information veteran status and/or any other basis protected by applicable federal state or local law.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer including disability and protected veteran status.

We prohibit all types of discrimination and are committed to providing access and equal opportunity for individuals with disabilities. For additional information or if reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application interview or hiring processes or to perform the essential functions of a position please contact us the Companys Human Resources department.