Technical Architect

Lucid Compliances LLC; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Lucid Compliances LLC seeks a senior software architect to own the technical vision for our compliance and analytics platform. You will shape scalable architectures, define integration strategies, and set engineering standards teams can ship against with confidence.

Responsibilities include leading architecture reviews, aligning security and performance with roadmaps, and mentoring engineers while supporting pre-sales technical discovery with pragmatic estimates and phased delivery plans.

Qualifications

• 7–10 years in software architecture, principal engineering, or technical leadership on enterprise systems.
• Broad experience across backend services, relational data stores, cloud infrastructure, and modern integration patterns.
• Proven delivery in regulated or high-trust environments with accountability for outcomes.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; comfortable with executives, engineers, and customer stakeholders.
• Hands-on enough to review designs and critical code paths; player-coach mindset.
• Bachelor’s degree in CS, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Define target-state architectures across web applications, APIs, data platforms, and cloud deployments.
• Lead architecture reviews, RFCs, and ADRs; align security, performance, and operability with product roadmaps.
• Partner with engineering leads on decomposition, service boundaries, eventing, and integration patterns.
• Guide build-vs-buy decisions, non-functional requirements, and disaster recovery / business continuity design.
• Mentor senior engineers and consultants; raise quality of diagrams, runbooks, and release readiness checklists.
• Support customer and pre-sales technical discovery with pragmatic estimates, risk registers, and phased delivery plans.

Skills

Software architecture

Technical leadership

Enterprise systems

Communication

Code review

System design

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS

Tools

Python/Django

PostgreSQL

Observability stack

AWS/Azure

Job description

Own the technical vision for our compliance and analytics platform—scalable architectures, integration strategy, and engineering standards that teams can ship against with confidence.

Key responsibilities

• Define target-state and transition architectures across web applications, APIs, data platforms, and cloud deployments.
• Lead architecture reviews, RFCs, and ADRs; align security, performance, and operability with product roadmaps.
• Partner with engineering leads on decomposition, service boundaries, eventing, and integration patterns (REST, batch, messaging).
• Guide build-vs-buy decisions, non-functional requirements, and disaster recovery / business continuity design.
• Mentor senior engineers and consultants; raise quality of diagrams, runbooks, and release readiness checklists.
• Support customer and pre-sales technical discovery with pragmatic estimates, risk registers, and phased delivery plans.

Qualifications

• 7–10 years in software architecture, principal engineering, or technical leadership on enterprise systems.
• Deep breadth across backend services, relational data stores, cloud infrastructure, and modern integration approaches.
• Proven delivery in regulated or high-trust environments with accountability for outcomes—not slides alone.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; comfortable with executives, engineers, and customer stakeholders.
• Hands‑on enough to review designs and critical code paths; player‑coach mindset.
• Bachelor’s degree in CS, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

• Experience in compliance‑heavy domains (health, food safety, financial services, or audit‑driven SaaS).
• Hands‑on familiarity with Python/Django, PostgreSQL, and observability stacks.
• TOGAF, AWS/Azure architect certifications, or equivalent when paired with practical delivery.