Remote Lead Software Architect: Enterprise Cloud & AI

NEPSE Trading; Northern (KY); Remote; USD 175,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Lead Software Architect to drive enterprise-wide architecture initiatives and long-term technology strategy. You will design scalable, cloud-native distributed systems and partner with multiple teams to align technology with business goals.

The role requires 10+ years of software engineering and deep expertise in microservices, API design, and DevOps practices. Remote, full-time position with strong impact potential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Proven expertise architecting and deploying large-scale distributed systems in production.
• Advanced programming proficiency in Java, Go, C++, C#, or similar backend technologies.
• Deep understanding of software architecture, microservices, distributed computing, API design, messaging systems, and event-driven architectures.
• Strong experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Extensive experience with performance engineering, scalability, high availability, disaster recovery, and system optimization.
• Demonstrated success leading cross-functional technical initiatives across multiple teams or business units.
• Strong understanding of SRE, observability, CI/CD, IaC, and modern DevOps practices.
• Excellent communication, leadership, analytical, and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive enterprise software architecture strategy across multiple products and engineering organizations.
• Design highly scalable, fault-tolerant, cloud-native distributed systems for enterprise workloads.
• Establish architectural principles, standards, and governance to improve software quality.
• Lead architecture reviews, design sessions, and engineering decision-making for high-impact initiatives.
• Partner with executives, managers, product teams, and stakeholders to align technology strategy 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 system resiliency improvements.
• Mentor Staff and Senior Engineers, promoting engineering excellence and best practices.
• Author and review architecture docs, ADRs, and design specifications; contribute hands-on when necessary.

Skills

Java

Go

C++

C#

Backend architectures

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Software Engineering

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Lead Software Architect to drive enterprise-wide architecture initiatives and long-term technology strategy. You will design scalable, cloud-native distributed systems and partner with multiple teams to align technology with business goals.

The role requires 10+ years of software engineering and deep expertise in microservices, API design, and DevOps practices. Remote, full-time position with strong impact potential.