Senior Software Architect

Conga; Houston (TX); Hybrid; USD 131,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work options

Medical and dental insurance

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Conga, a leader in commercial operations software, seeks a Senior Software Architect in a hybrid role based in Houston, TX or Boston, MA. You will shape architectural vision, technology strategy, and long-term evolution of Conga's B2B Platform, partnering with product, security, and data leaders.

You will mentor architects and engineers, drive standards and governance, and champion cloud-native, API-first approaches to deliver scalable SaaS solutions for enterprise customers.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience with architecture leadership.
• Proven SaaS and distributed systems architecture for enterprise.
• Expertise in Java-based development and cloud-native patterns.
• Experience with API management and event-driven architectures.
• Strong communication with executives and cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the architectural vision and technology strategy for Conga's B2B Platform.
• Lead design and reviews of large-scale, critical systems and modernization efforts.
• Establish architecture standards, governance, and engineering best practices.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Security, Operations, and Data leaders.
• Mentor architects and senior technical contributors.
• Promote cloud-native, Azure-based, API-first patterns.

Skills

Java

Cloud-native

Microservices

Architecture leadership

API management

Event-driven

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD

Infrastructure-as-Code

Job description

A career that’s the whole package! At Conga, we’ve built a community where our colleagues can thrive. Here you’ll find opportunities to innovate and support growth through individual and team development, all within an environment where every voice is heard.

Conga lines up commercial operations so companies run as connected, smarter businesses. By unifying the people and processes that drive commerce, Conga aligns pricing, quoting, contracting, rebates, and communications so teams stay in sync and buyers keep moving forward. The result is trusted decisions, consistent buyer experiences, and profitable growth. More than 10,000 customers worldwide, including over 50% of the Fortune 100® trust Conga when commercial complexity is high and global impact is on the line.

Job Title: Senior Software Architect

Location: Houston, TX or Boston, MA (Hybrid)

Reports To: Senior Manager, Product Development

A Quick Snapshot...

The Senior Software Architect is a highly influential technical leadership role within Conga's B2B Platform Engineering organization. This position is responsible for shaping the architectural vision, technical strategy, and long-term evolution of Conga's B2B Platform, including the platform capabilities that support Revenue Lifecycle Management (RLM) and Pricing Solutions.

As a Senior Software Architect, you will provide architectural leadership across multiple product, platform, and data initiatives, ensuring solutions align with enterprise architecture principles, business objectives, scalability requirements, and long-term platform strategy. You will serve as a trusted advisor to Engineering, Product, and Executive leadership while driving innovation, modernization, and technical excellence throughout the organization.

This role is ideal for experienced architects who possess deep technical expertise, a systems-thinking mindset, and a proven ability to influence engineering direction at scale.

Why It's a Big Deal...

• Define and drive the architectural vision, technology strategy, and roadmap for Conga's B2B Platform, shared services, and enterprise data capabilities.
• Lead the design and review of complex, business-critical systems and large-scale modernization efforts.
• Establish and champion enterprise architecture standards, governance processes, and engineering best practices.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Security, Operations, and Data leaders to align technology investments with business objectives.
• Drive architectural decisions that balance customer needs, business priorities, security, scalability, reliability, and operational excellence.
• Lead the architecture of enterprise data capabilities, ensuring effective ingestion, governance, access, integration, and reuse of business data across products and platform services.
• Evaluate and drive adoption of emerging technologies, frameworks, and architectural patterns that accelerate innovation and business outcomes.
• Mentor Architects, Principal Engineers, and technical leaders while fostering architectural excellence across engineering teams.
• Promote cloud-native, Azure-based, API-first, event-driven, and scalable architectural approaches across the product ecosystem.
• Serve as a key escalation point for complex technical challenges, architectural risks, and cross-functional dependencies.
• Partner with Executive leadership to identify and address technical debt, platform investment opportunities, and strategic technical initiatives.

Here’s What We’re Looking For...

• 12+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience in architecture leadership roles.
• Proven success defining and implementing architecture for large-scale enterprise SaaS platforms and distributed systems.
• Deep expertise in Java-based application development, cloud-native architectures, microservices, and modern software engineering practices.
• Strong understanding of enterprise integration patterns, API management, event-driven architectures, and platform engineering principles.
• Experience designing highly scalable, secure, resilient, and observable SaaS solutions serving enterprise customers.
• Hands-on expertise with public cloud platforms, preferably Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, and Infrastructure-as-Code practices.
• Strong experience working with relational and NoSQL databases, data modeling, and high-volume transaction systems.
• Experience designing platform capabilities for enterprise data management, including data ingestion, processing, storage, governance, access, and integration across distributed systems.
• Experience with modern data platforms and technologies used to manage enterprise data and business objects, such as Databricks, including their integration with operational applications and platform services.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technology strategy and influence architectural decisions across multiple teams and organizations.
• Proven ability to drive architectural governance while balancing pragmatism, speed, and innovation.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience mentoring architects, principal engineers, and senior technical contributors.

Why This Role Matters at Conga

• Directly shape the architecture, scalability, and long-term technology strategy of Conga's B2B Platform, which powers core business capabilities across multiple product lines.
• Influence architectural and technology decisions that enable platform-wide consistency, reuse, interoperability, and innovation.
• Lead the evolution of foundational platform services, enterprise data capabilities, and shared infrastructure that support Revenue Lifecycle Management (RLM), Pricing Solutions, and future platform investments.
• Drive scalability, reliability, security, observability, and operational excellence across the platform ecosystem.
• Enable engineering consistency and platform adoption through scalable architectural frameworks, standards, and governance practices.
• Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Data, and Executive leadership to align platform investments with strategic business objectives.
• Enable data-driven innovation by advancing enterprise data management capabilities, including data integration, governance, accessibility, and business object services.
• Help build and mentor the next generation of technical leaders, architects, and principal engineers across the organization.
• Serve as a strategic technology leader with broad influence on Conga's platform strategy, engineering maturity, and future growth.

In the spirit of the Conga Way, we strive to design easy-to-understand compensation programs that are fair and free from any type of discrimination. In keeping with this approach, we are committed to delivering competitive compensation and benefits packages to our colleagues worldwide and communicating transparently about the structure of our compensation programs.

Listed below is the U.S. base salary range for this full-time position. Within the range, individual pay is determined by job-related skills, experience, and relevant education, or training. In addition to base salary, Conganeers receive a variable incentive pay component, perks such as flexible work options, and a full range of benefits including medical and dental insurance.

U.S Base Salary Range

$131,380—$210,210 USD

Additional Information

Conga is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, parental or pregnancy status, marriage and civil partnership, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We understand interviewing can be stressful for those with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed to allow you to show us your best self, please let your recruiter know as soon as possible. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. Conga is not open to third party solicitation or resumes for our posted FTE positions. Resumes received from third party agencies that are unsolicited will be considered complimentary.

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