Lead Software Architect — Remote Cloud-Native Platforms

Bright Vision Technologies; United States; Remote; USD 175,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a highly accomplished Lead Software Architect with 10+ years of experience to lead enterprise-wide architecture initiatives and define long-term technology strategy. You will deliver scalable, secure distributed systems and mentor engineers across multiple teams.

The role requires deep expertise in cloud-native architectures, microservices, performance engineering, and DevOps practices.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Proven ability to design and deliver enterprise-scale software platforms.
• Proficient in Java, Go, C++, C#, or similar backend technologies.
• Strong cloud expertise across AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Experience with SRE, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and modern DevOps practices.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive enterprise software architecture strategy across products and engineering teams.
• Design scalable, fault-tolerant, cloud-native distributed systems for enterprise workloads.
• Establish architecture principles, standards, and governance for quality and consistency.
• Lead architecture reviews, design sessions, and engineering decision-making for high-impact initiatives.
• Partner with executives, managers, product teams, and stakeholders to align technology with business goals.
• Drive platform modernization, including microservices adoption, cloud migration, API strategy, and event-driven architectures.
• Lead performance optimization, scalability planning, reliability engineering, and resiliency improvements.
• Mentor senior engineers and promote engineering excellence and best practices.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend strategic investments for engineering capabilities.
• Author architecture documentation, RFCs, design specs, and ADRs.
• Contribute hands-on to critical components and proofs-of-concept when needed.
• Champion DevSecOps, observability, automation, and operations excellence across teams.

Skills

Software engineering

Backend technologies

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a highly accomplished Lead Software Architect with 10+ years of experience to lead enterprise-wide architecture initiatives and define long-term technology strategy. You will deliver scalable, secure distributed systems and mentor engineers across multiple teams.

The role requires deep expertise in cloud-native architectures, microservices, performance engineering, and DevOps practices.