Sr Lead Architect

Cox Enterprises; Burlington (VT); On-site; USD 130,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

Cox Enterprises seeks an experienced Enterprise Architect to drive architecture vision, develop scalable frameworks, and guide technology decisions across teams. The role includes design reviews, mentoring engineers, and aligning local work with enterprise capabilities.

Emphasis on AWS serverless patterns, REST/GraphQL APIs, and a strong solutions mindset to deliver secure, reliable platforms for the business.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline
• 5+ years of experience implementing structured design and architecture processes in a corporate environment
• 8+ years of experience in full development life cycle and delivering applications and architecture services
• Strong knowledge of AWS services with a focus on serverless patterns
• 5+ years of experience in API design patterns including RESTful APIs, GraphQL, and messaging-based APIs
• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills to communicate architectural issues to multiple levels of the organization
• Software development background in modern server-side computing stacks
• Solid understanding of solutions architecture for consumer-scale web solutions, distributed systems, and cloud platforms

Responsibilities

• Contribute to architecture vision and direction across initiatives
• Assist in developing frameworks, standards, and procedures guiding technology decisions
• Facilitate technical design reviews and ensure adherence to standards
• Identify and resolve infrastructure problems and improve reliability
• Connect local teams with enterprise capabilities to drive integration
• Mentor engineers on business knowledge, technology, and career growth
• Create a culture of knowledge sharing and learning from successes and challenges
• Develop logical and technical architectures for projects and platforms
• Evaluate performance, security, reliability, and interoperability requirements
• Produce high-level design deliverables to enable development teams
• Communicate architectures and technologies to delivery teams and stakeholders
• Evaluate emerging technologies and define future-roadmap options
• Recommend improvements to technology and processes to boost effectiveness
• Create proofs of concept for new technologies
• Oversee hardware and software technology evaluations and selections

Skills

Architectural design

Serverless patterns

RESTful APIs

GraphQL

Messaging APIs

Communication skills

Web architecture

Distributed systems

Cloud computing

Education

Bachelor’s degree in related discipline

Master’s degree in related discipline

Ph.D. in related field

Tools

AWS

GraphQL

REST APIs

Serverless

Job description

Responsibilities

Architecture Vision and Direction

• Assists with the development of frameworks, standards, policies, principles, and procedures that guide technology decisions and maximize reuse of technology.

• Facilitates technical design reviews, ensuring adherence to architectural standards and consistency across organizational and design boundaries.

• Assists in the identification, analysis, and resolution of technology infrastructure problems.

• Connects local teams with broader enterprise capabilities, driving integration and standardization as appropriate.

• Mentors engineers on business knowledge, technology, and career guidance.

• Creates a culture of knowledge sharing and failing forward, providing opportunities for engineers to learn from each other's successes and challenges.

Technical Architecture Development

• Develops the logical and technical architecture for project and platform initiatives and collaborates with project teams to realize them.

• Evaluates performance, security, reliability, operations, technology, and interoperability requirements and produces high-level design deliverables that enable development teams to create products that are flexible, scalable, and secure.

• Communicates technical architectures, relevant technologies, practices, platforms, and products to delivery teams and other stakeholders.

Technology Monitoring & Evaluation

• Evaluates emerging technologies and the evolution of current technologies to define a future vision roadmap for optimal application of technology to meet business needs.

• Recommends improvements to technology and processes that increase team effectiveness.

• Creates proof of concepts to determine the viability of new or different technologies.

• Oversees and facilitates the evaluation and selection of hardware and software technologies.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline and 8 years’ experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master’s degree and 6years’ experience; a Ph.D. and 3 years’ experience in a related field; or 12 years’ experience in a related field

• 5+ years of experience in the implementation of structured design and architecture processes in a corporate environment.

• 8+ years of experience in full development life cycle and significant experience in delivering applications and architecture services in a production environment.

• Requires strong knowledge AWS Services and offerings with a focus on Serverless patterns

• 5+ years of expereince in API design patterns including RESTful APIs, GraphQL, messaging-based APIs and other architectural integration patterns.

• Excellent verbal, written, presentation, facilitation, and interaction skills, including ability to effectively communicate architectural issues and concepts to multiple organization levels

• Software development background in modern server-side computing stacks

• A solid understanding of the solutions architecture of consumer-scale web solutions, distributed systems integration and cloud computing platforms is strongly desired

Preferred Qualification

• Software development background in modern browser environments with React based single page app patterns preferred