Senior Software Architect

DASH2; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading enterprise technology firm in Salt Lake City is looking for a Senior Software Architect to lay down the architectural foundation for a critical modernization initiative. This role focuses on defining a future-state platform while ensuring stability, performance, and reliability. Candidates should have experience in modernizing large legacy systems and transitioning to event-driven architectures, along with strong communication skills. The successful candidate will work closely with internal teams to facilitate effective architectural solutions.

Qualifications

• Senior-level Software Architect experience at enterprise scale.
• Proven success in modernizing large legacy systems.
• Experience transitioning from batch to event-driven architectures.

Responsibilities

• Define a complete architectural blueprint for systematic modernization.
• Establish the future-state architecture aligned with enterprise standards.
• Design a phased migration roadmap.

Skills

Software Architect experience

Modernizing legacy systems

Event-driven architectures

Communication skills

Mentoring development teams

Tools

Java

AWS

React

Job description

Senior Software Architect

We are seeking a Senior Software Architect to lay the architectural foundation for a critical enterprise modernization initiative. This role is not a proposal and not a delivery build—it is a hands‑on architectural engagement to define the future‑state platform, migration strategy, and standards that will enable a development team to execute with confidence.

This project has a strong architecture‑first approach, executive pressure to succeed, and a clear mandate to avoid “big bang” rewrites.

The system supports a mission‑critical, highly visible, and deeply meaningful end‑to‑end process, where stability, performance, and reliability are non‑negotiable.

Project Context

• Modernizing a large, legacy enterprise system.
• Batch‑based processing (twice daily) that must evolve toward real‑time and messaging‑based flows.
• The business process itself remains largely unchanged—the focus is on: Stability, Scalability, Performance, Maintainability, and Delivery predictability.

Phase 1 Engagement (First 90 Days)

Define a complete architectural blueprint that enables systematic modernization—without premature deep builds or over‑engineering.

This phase is about clarity, alignment, and risk reduction, not writing production code.

Key Objectives

• Establish the future‑state architecture aligned with enterprise standards.
• Design a phased migration roadmap (no big‑bang cutover).
• Define: architecture patterns, development standards, infrastructure approach, observability and resiliency strategies, improve estimation accuracy for future phases, identify risks, dependencies, and integration points early, and enable a 7‑person engineering team to begin execution.
• Technology recommendations (Java & AWS strongly preferred).
• Frontend direction (likely React).
• Messaging and real‑time processing approach.
• Migration roadmap with clearly chunked phases.
• Inputs to accurate delivery estimates.
• Identification of: key dependencies, integration points, technical and organizational risks, required skill sets and resources.

Required Experience & Skills

• Senior‑level Software Architect experience (enterprise scale).
• Proven success modernizing large, legacy systems.
• Experience transitioning from batch to event‑driven / real‑time architectures.
• Ability to work closely with an internal architect who knows the current systems.
• Strong communication and influence skills.
• Ability to mentor development teams and elevate architectural maturity.

Location: Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area.