Software Architect Principal

Patterson Companies; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Patterson Companies is seeking a Software Architect Principal to design and lead the development of scalable, secure software architectures across the full stack. This role drives architecture decisions, mentors engineers, and ensures alignment with product standards.

You will collaborate with engineering, product, security, and operations to enable delivery of complex software initiatives, translate business needs into technical direction, and promote best practices across teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 7 years of progressive technical experience in software engineering/ IT architecture.
• Experience designing customer-facing software platforms is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Architect end-to-end software solutions across frontend, backend, database, integration, and infrastructure layers, ensuring scalability, performance, security, and maintainability.
• Lead architectural planning by translating business requirements into high-level designs, specifications, and models.
• Develop and evolve architectural standards and guidelines including frameworks, coding standards, reusable components, and technology patterns.
• Assess and validate technology solutions to ensure compatibility across applications, platforms, data, and interdependent technologies.
• Guide complex software initiatives by providing architectural direction and resolving highly complex technical issues.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, product, infrastructure, security, and business stakeholders to align decisions with objectives.

Skills

Software architecture

Architectural standards

Communication skills

Full-stack concepts

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/SE or related

Job description

Patterson isn't just a place to work, it's a partner that cares about your success.

One of the distinguishing marks of our company is the talented people who embrace the people‑first, always advancing, and results‑driven culture. Professional growth abounds in this motivating environment.

We value the diverse talents and experiences our employees bring to Patterson and believe that they build a stronger and successful organization.

Job Summary

The Software Architect Principal designs and leads the development of commercial software architectures and solutions that address complex product initiatives and objectives with technology products, services and capabilities. This role applies deep technical expertise across the full software stack to define, build, and evolve scalable, secure, and integrated systems aligned with product architecture standards. In addition, this role leads large‑scale commercial software initiatives, resolves design issues, and provides guidance to other teams to evolve the technologies and operating models.

Essential Functions

• Architect and design end‑to‑end software solutions across front‑end, back‑end, database, integration, and infrastructure layers, ensuring scalability, performance, security, and maintainability
• Lead technical planning and architecture definition by translating business and stakeholder requirements into high‑level system designs, technical specifications, and architectural models
• Develop and evolve architectural standards and guidelines including frameworks, coding standards, reusable components, and technology patterns that enable consistent and efficient software development
• Assess and validate technology solutions and integrations to ensure compatibility across applications, platforms, data, and interdependent technologies
• Guide complex software development initiatives by providing architectural direction, resolving highly complex technical issues, and influencing design decisions with broad product impact
• Collaborate cross‑functionally with engineering, product, infrastructure, security, and business stakeholders to align architecture decisions with strategic objectives and delivery timelines
• Communicate software architecture and design decisions clearly to technical and non‑technical audiences, ensuring shared understanding of solution intent, constraints, and trade‑offs
• Evaluate emerging technologies and practices to recommend improvements that enhance system capabilities, reliability, and long‑term sustainability
• Provide technical mentorship, coaching, and architectural oversight to engineers and architects without direct supervisory responsibility, elevating technical capability across teams
• Comply with Company and department policies and standards; performs other duties as assigned

Essential Functions: Dental US

• Evaluate and modernize legacy systems in a controlled, and low‑risk way while ensuring business continuity, data accuracy, and smooth customer experience
• Establish and maintain development standards, governance controls, and automated quality assurance processes that improve efficiency, consistency, compliance, and delivery quality, while ensuring appropriate oversight, approval, and auditability of significant technology decisions and outcomes
• Optimize standardized delivery tools and processes to improve the speed, quality, reliability, and efficiency of technology delivery and continuously improve performance through data‑driven insights.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field or equivalent education and/or experience
• 7 years of progressive technical experience, including software engineering/ IT architecture, design and implementation

Preferred Requirements

• Experience designing and implementing customer‑facing software platforms

Skills and Abilities

• Broad technical knowledge of software architecture principles, design patterns, and application development
• Demonstrated experience defining architectural standards and influencing technology strategy across multiple teams or domains
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to non‑technical audiences
• Strong proficiency across front‑end, back‑end, database, and integration technologies, including full‑stack development concepts
• Strong analytical, problem‑solving, and debugging skills to resolve highly complex technical issues
• Strong judgment and decision‑making skills based on deep technical experience
• Proven experience in designing, building, and deploying scalable, secure, and resilient systems; ability to visualize and create high‑level models
• Ability to apply strategic and systems thinking to balance technical, business, and architectural considerations
• Proven capability to lead through influence and provide technical guidance/coach peers

Physical and Cognitive Demands

• Communicate/Hearing Frequently
• Communicate/Talking F