Software Architect

RESPONSIBILITIES:
Kforce has a client in Miramar, FL that is seeking a Software Architect who will help us design, develop, and deliver high-quality software solutions delivering value to technology and business teams across the organization.

Duties:
* Provide architectural leadership across the full software development lifecycle, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, resilient, and aligned with Space Coast Credit Union's business and technology strategy.
* Collaborate with business, product, and technology stakeholders to convert business requirements into comprehensive architectural designs, solution alternatives, and technical roadmaps.
* Mentor and coach software engineers and technical leads, fostering strong engineering discipline, design thinking, and continuous improvement across development teams.
* Define and govern application architecture standards, patterns, and best practices across custom developed and vendor provided solutions.
* Review and approve solution designs, architecture diagrams, code and integration specifications to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture principles.
* Lead enterprise automation strategy and implementation, identifying high value opportunities, standardizing approaches, and measuring outcomes (cycle time reduction, error rate, cost savings, and user experience improvements).
* Architect and govern Robotic Process Automation (RPA) capabilities (bot design standards, orchestration, security, credential management, and monitoring), partnering with business teams to streamline manual processes and improve operational resilience.
* Own architectural direction for the enterprise platform ecosystem, using ServiceNow to standardize intake, workflow orchestration, CMDB alignment, and cross-platform integrations that enable end-to-end visibility and consistent service delivery.

REQUIREMENTS:
* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a technology related field, or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience required
* 10+ years of experience in software engineering with 5+ years of experience in a senior technical leadership role (Software Architect, Lead Engineer, or Principal Engineer) designing and delivering production systems
* Hands-on experience architecting applications, including networking basics, identity, secrets management, and cost-conscious designs
* Experience designing modern architectures (modular monoliths and/or microservices), API-first integrations (REST/GraphQL), and event-driven patterns (queues/streams) with clear service boundaries and versioning strategies
* Demonstrated success enabling high-performing delivery via modern DevOps practices: CI/CD, automated testing, infrastructure as code, and release strategies (blue/green, canary, feature flags)
* Strong application security and risk mindset (threat modeling, secure coding, encryption, authentication/authorization, vulnerability management) and ability to design within regulated/financial services environments
* Experience building for reliability and operations: observability (logs/metrics/traces), performance tuning, incident response/root cause analysis, and designing for availability and disaster recovery
* Ability to collaborate across product, security, infrastructure, and vendors; communicate architecture decisions clearly; and mentor engineers through design reviews, standards, and pragmatic guidance
* Track record of influencing technical direction through architecture artifacts (diagrams, ADRs, reference architectures), and driving measurable improvements in quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes
* Experience leading enterprise automation initiatives, including identifying, prioritizing, and delivering workflow automation with measurable outcomes (cycle-time reduction, quality, and operational efficiency)

The pay range is the lowest to highest compensation we reasonably in good faith believe we would pay at posting for this role. We may ultimately pay more or less than this range. Employee pay is based on factors like relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, location, performance, union contract and business needs. This range may be modified in the future.

We offer comprehensive benefits including medical/dental/vision insurance, HSA, FSA, 401(k), and life, disability & ADD insurance to eligible employees. Salaried personnel receive paid time off. Hourly employees are not eligible for paid time off unless required by law. Hourly employees on a Service Contract Act project are eligible for paid sick leave.

Note: Pay is not considered compensation until it is earned, vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any compensation remains in Kforce's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified in its discretion consistent with the law.

This job is not eligible for bonuses, incentives or commissions.

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