Architect (Software Code Quality & Integration)

Architect (Software Code Quality & Integration)

Location: Houston, TX

Term: Long Term Contract to Hire

Type: Full-Time

Schedule: 5 days, 8 hours per day

Specific Certification or Qualifications Required:

Code Review Leadership

Provides leadership in code reviews, setting expectations beyond standard participation. Defines and reinforces best practice standards for code quality across teams. Prioritizes review of critical paths and shared components to ensure system-wide reliability. Enforces best practices including naming conventions, error handling, logging/observability, and security standards.

Best Practices Ownership

Establishes and maintains coding standards and design patterns aligned with best practices. Drives consistency through reusable frameworks and shared libraries. Actively promotes and ensures adoption of standards across teams.

Large-Scale Integration Expertise

Applies best practices when integrating across internal platforms and third-party systems. Accounts for reliability, maintainability, and scalability in cross-system interactions.

Governance and Guardrails

Implements review gates, coding standards, and automated quality checks. Leverages CI/CD pipelines to enforce linting, security scanning, and test coverage requirements. Defines and upholds clear criteria for code readiness prior to production deployment.

Essential Skills Required:

Deep ability for evaluating large, complex codebases, identifying risks, inconsistencies, and improvement opportunities. Strong understanding of API, integration design and code change impacts. Shows a solid understanding of best practice coding techniques for managing failures in distributed systems, resulting in reliable and maintainable code. Defines practical, best practice coding standards that are widely followed and improve code consistency and quality. Exhibits practical coding proficiency, enabling direct contribution when necessary. Exhibits sound judgment in accounting for cross-team and cross-product scaling impacts, including dependencies, integration points, and system stability. Light amount of QA testing.