Senior Software Architect

Description

For over 50 years, DMP has built trusted security solutions that help protect people and property. We're looking for a Senior Software Architect to help shape the future of our software through thoughtful architecture, hands-on innovation, and technical leadership.

As our most senior technical individual contributor across software development, you'll guide architecture, technology choices, and engineering standards across teams. You'll work alongside engineers and managers to prove out designs, solve complex challenges, and build secure, scalable, maintainable solutions. This is a hands-on technical leadership role, not a people-management position.

What You'll Do

• Define and evolve a cohesive technical vision and target architecture across DMP software teams, including practical plans to improve existing systems.
• Lead collaborative architecture and design reviews, documenting patterns and decisions that support secure, reliable, maintainable solutions.
• Partner with engineers to prototype and initially implement key architectural concepts, then transition proven solutions to development teams.
• Establish and champion coding standards, engineering best practices, and architectural guidance that improve software quality and consistency.
• Evaluate and guide the selection of programming languages, frameworks, tools, and platforms, balancing technical fit, cost, security, and long-term support.
• Apply corporate AI standards to software development; lead engineering proofs of concept for AI-assisted development and AI features in DMP products, collaborating with corporate AI leadership as needed.
• Partner with software managers and team leads to identify skill gaps, mentor engineers, encourage cross-training, and strengthen knowledge sharing.
• Collaborate with database administrators (DBAs), infrastructure, and security teams on database design, cloud architecture, performance, resiliency, and secure system integration.
• Champion security-by-design, DMP data-classification standards, and applicable compliance practices throughout software architecture and design.
• Work with Product Management and business stakeholders to align the technology roadmap with company priorities and customer needs.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and build-versus-buy options through practical proofs of concept; provide architectural guidance for vendor and contractor work as needed.
• Advise the VP of Software on architectural decisions, risks, priorities, and progress while identifying opportunities to improve engineering effectiveness.
• Observe and adhere to the DMP Data Classification Standard.

What You'll Bring

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 10+ years of software development experience, including significant large-scale system design.
• 5+ years working with enterprise-level, high-availability databases, including database design or performance optimization.
• Strong hands-on .NET experience and expertise in API design and system integration.
• Experience designing secure, scalable, resilient applications across distributed systems and cloud platforms, including AWS or Azure.
• Working knowledge of modern web or mobile architectures, containers, and a range of development languages and tools.
• Understanding of application security and data-classification practices; exposure to SOC 2 or ISO 27001 is preferred.
• Proven technical leadership and mentoring skills, with the ability to communicate architectural decisions clearly to diverse audiences.

Why DMP?

As a Senior Software Architect, you will help shape our software strategy, influence engineering best practices, and turn complex technical challenges into practical solutions that support our products and customers.

EOE/Disabled/Vet