Cloud Architect (Remote)

Lead all architectural initiatives for our Citizen Services cloud-native application suite. In this highly visible role, you will ensure that our Citizen Services suite is architected as a highly available, reliable, resilient, scalable, and secured platform.

* Collaborate and communicate with development teams to design, develop, and champion best practices, patterns, and standards for our cloud-native suite

* Continuously evolve the cloud platform's security, reliability, scalability, and resiliency to position it as the best-in-class platform that delights our customers.

* Produce clear, detailed, and actionable design documents, architecture blueprints, and architectural decision records with context, decision, and tradeoffs.

* Build key proofs-of-concept - our architects are hands-on and build actual prototypes & frameworks to help the teams get started on the right foot. They are force multipliers.

* Collaborate with the engineers, engineering managers, tech leads, product managers, and other stakeholders to determine requirements, architecture, and design capabilities.

* Actively participate in the Architecture Center of Excellence (COE) to drive best practices across the organization.

* Mentor and develop engineers and junior architects to assist and champion clean architecture and clean code disciplines

* Contribute to OpenGov R&D's culture of customer-driven innovation

* Bachelor's Degree in computer science or a related discipline required

* 12+ years of experience in software architecture, design and development, preferably with cloud-native technology stack and multi-tenant enterprise SaaS architectures

* Experience designing cloud-native products

* Experience migrating legacy products to the cloud

* Solid understanding of cloud-native architecture, infrastructure-as-code, containers, serverless, microservices, APIs , CICD, and event-driven architectures and 12 factor application development

* Solid understanding of GitHub, Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes (EKS), Kafka, KeyCloak, Auth0, AWS Lambda, Azure, AWS, GitHub Actions, and ArgoCD

* Strong experience with the monitoring and alerting of infrastructure and applications using New Relic, Grafana, Azure Application Insights

* Proven hands-on development experience with NodeJS (TypeScript) and/or other programming languages, design patterns, and front-end frameworks like React with GraphQL.

* Hands-on knowledge of DevOps, SRE, TDD, and CI/CD, Release Management, and Configuration Management practices in a public cloud environment, preferably AWS

* Highly analytical mindset, with an ability to see both the big picture and the details

* Ability to think long-term, envision target states, and work towards achieving the target state iteratively

* Strong written and verbal communication skills

Leadership: CEO Zac Bookman (MPA from Harvard and JD from Yale) is truly a mission-driven CEO. He was named one of the 100 most Intriguing Entrepreneurs by Goldman Sachs, a Tech Pioneer by the World Economic Forum, and !

Funding: Over $250 million, Series D company, from top tier investors including Andreessen Horowitz, 8VC, Cox Enterprises, and Emerson Collective.

Board of Directors: Includes iconic executives John Chambers (former Cisco Chairman and CEO), Marc Andreessen (Time Magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the world), Katherine August-deWilde (Vice Chair of First Republic Bank), and Amy Pressman (co-founder, former president, and a current board member of Medallia).

Growth: Record breaking growth with 1,600+ governments (and counting) using our products and seven acquisitions in the past six years! Click to read more.

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Perks: 90% paid Medical/Dental/Vision premium for employees, fully paid Life and Short/Long term disability insurance, Unlimited PTO, Parental Leave policy, monthly fitness stipend, anniversary awards, and more!

Product: Named to the GovTech 100 (seven consecutive years), we are the leader in cloud software for our nation's cities, counties, and state agencies.

Mission Driven: We are a technology company with a passion for the mission. We're powering more effective and accountable government.

Come join us and make a positive social impact!