Senior Software Architect

DescriptionKforce has a client that is seeking a Senior Software Architect in Atlanta, GA.Responsibilities:* Establishes quality standards and drives system design decisions that prevent defects, leading material improvements that eliminate recurring classes of problems* Serves as the team's expert resource on AI-driven development practices and LLM usage, advocating for and driving adoption of AI-assisted development tools across the engineering organization* Leads participation in the full development life cycle, including requirements gathering, analysis, and design, taking ownership of significant components* Evaluates business risk and customer impact to make strategic technical trade-off decisions* Mentors engineers in technical decision-making, including risk evaluation and trade-off analysis* Proactively identifies and resolves complex problems, implementing sustainable solutions that prevent recurrence* Defines, communicates, and owns architectural decisions, including tenancy models, service boundaries, performance and cost tradeoffs, extensibility, and safe upgrade paths, to meet current and future needs for scaling, performance, security, and reliability* Identifies and implements process improvements across the engineering organization* Creates and reviews system designs, applying appropriate architectural patterns, idioms, and data structures* Takes full ownership of assigned work and team deliverable quality, including advancing test automation strategy and implementation, and is highly accountable for how software performs in production* Ensures comprehensive documentation across all development phases and guides others in producing it* Contributes directly to code on an ongoing basis using approved AI-assisted development tools* Leads post-acquisition technical integration efforts, including data migration planning, security assessments, and compliance evaluationRequirements* Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field preferred* Typically requires a minimum of 10 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; Or 8 years and a Master's degree; Or a PhD with 6 years of experience; Or equivalent experience with a typical range of 12-15 years* Hands-on experience with containerized workloads* History of architecting and delivering enterprise-scale software systems in production environments* Background in mentoring or leading technical direction in an individual contributor capacity, without formal people management responsibility* Track record working within an AI-augmented software development workflow, such as Claude Code or comparable agentic development tools* Recent work with AWS, C#, Containerized workloads, ORMs, and GitHub Actions* Understanding of infrastructure and hardware-level constraints affecting software performance* Exposure to integration patterns across distributed systems* Proficiency in Claude Code, Codex, or comparable agentic AI development tools* Applies AI/ML tools to enhance development efficiency and accelerate task completion* Deep expertise in .NET8+, ASP.NET, and ORMs* Strong command of relational database design and management* Exposure to NoSQL-type databases like Redis, DynamoDB, or Elasticsearch* Proficiency in REST APIs, and messaging queue architectures* Skilled in architecting and building cloud-native enterprise software* Skilled in applying microservices and monolithic architecture patterns* Fluent in concurrency and observability practices in production systems* Capacity to present and defend complex technical solutions under scrutiny from highly technical stakeholders* Effective communicator and collaborator across the organization* Practiced in Agile software development methodologies* Postgres and React knowledge a plusJob TypeDirect HireCompensation185000 - $195000