Strategic Software Architect | Cloud & API Design

Durango Casino & Resort; Las Vegas (NV); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Durango Casino & Resort seeks a Software Architect to define technical direction for software products and lead solution design from discovery to delivery and production operation.

This senior role embeds with Agile teams, guiding Product Owners and engineers, making architecture decisions, and balancing long‑term strategy with hands‑on practice. Expect collaboration across product, data, and security teams to drive scalable, secure software.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in CS/Software Engineering.
• Substantial experience designing and delivering production software with architecture leadership.
• Hands-on foundation in modern web/backend engineering, API design, data modeling, and distributed systems.
• Design for security, performance, scalability, resilience, and observability.
• Experience with cloud platforms, automated delivery, containers, and operational support.
• Turn ambiguous business problems into clear options, decisions, and delivery plans.
• Ability to communicate complex concepts to executives, stakeholders, and engineers.
• Mentor engineers, facilitate design reviews, and influence cross‑functional teams.
• Balance delivery speed with technical debt and long-term health.
• Engage with business operations and participate in production escalation when needed.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain architectural views for assigned products within the enterprise landscape.
• Establish principles, standards, integration guidelines, and reusable patterns.
• Record decisions in architecture documents and ensure artifacts stay current.
• Shape roadmaps and migration plans with risk reduction.
• Align architecture with security and maintainability goals.
• Mentor engineers and lead design reviews across teams.
• Own production readiness and outcomes, and support deployment considerations.
• Design for deployment, monitoring, incident response, and supportability.
• Collaborate with ops during high-priority incidents to identify systemic causes.
• Use telemetry and feedback to refine architecture and deliver business value.

Skills

Architecture leadership

Distributed systems

Security & compliance

Mentoring engineers

Agile practices

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Git

Figma

Lucid

Azure DevOps Wiki

Microsoft SharePoint

Job description

Durango Casino & Resort seeks a Software Architect to define technical direction for software products and lead solution design from discovery to delivery and production operation.

This senior role embeds with Agile teams, guiding Product Owners and engineers, making architecture decisions, and balancing long‑term strategy with hands‑on practice. Expect collaboration across product, data, and security teams to drive scalable, secure software.