Senior Software Architect - Enterprise Microservices & Cloud

TransUnion; Reston, Northern (VA, KY); Hybrid; USD 113,000 - 188,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

401(k) with employer match

Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

Job summary

TransUnion is seeking a Software Architect to define and govern architecture for enterprise-grade messaging and data platforms in Reston, VA. The role focuses on microservices, distributed systems, and cloud-native modernization, with leadership across engineering and product teams.

The position emphasizes hands-on architectural guidance, performance, observability, and security, with a hybrid work arrangement and collaboration across Terrestrial offices.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience designing and building enterprise software solutions, including significant experience with Java-based backend platforms and distributed systems architecture.
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Responsibilities

• Define and govern the target architecture for enterprise-grade applications, messaging platforms, APIs, data services, and integrations.
• Translate product strategy and business objectives into architecture roadmaps, technology standards, implementation plans, and modernization strategies.
• Lead architecture and solution design reviews for new products, major enhancements, integrations, data platforms, and security initiatives.
• Establish scalable architecture patterns for microservices, distributed systems, event-driven platforms, Kafka messaging, Cassandra databases, and REST APIs.
• Drive modernization efforts that transition legacy platforms toward cloud-ready and cloud-native architectures while balancing customer commitments, stability, and delivery timelines.
• Partner with engineering teams to validate architecture through prototypes, performance testing, code reviews, production readiness assessments, and technical guidance.
• Improve platform scalability, reliability, resilience, observability, security, and operational supportability across business-critical systems.
• Provide technical leadership during high-priority production incidents, identify root architectural challenges, and implement long-term solutions.
• Collaborate across Product, Engineering, QA, DevOps, Security, Data, and Enterprise Architecture teams to resolve technical dependencies and business tradeoffs.
• Mentor senior engineers and technical leaders while promoting engineering excellence, architectural best practices, CI/CD standards, and modern software development principles.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Spring Web

Spring Security

Spring Data

Microservices

Distributed systems

Architecture roadmaps

Observability

Performance optimization

Tools

Apache Kafka

Cassandra

Docker

Kubernetes

Linux

AWS

CI/CD

Job description

TransUnion is seeking a Software Architect to define and govern architecture for enterprise-grade messaging and data platforms in Reston, VA. The role focuses on microservices, distributed systems, and cloud-native modernization, with leadership across engineering and product teams.

The position emphasizes hands-on architectural guidance, performance, observability, and security, with a hybrid work arrangement and collaboration across Terrestrial offices.