Platform Architect

About AvidXchange

AvidXchange is a leading provider of accounts payable ("AP") automation software and payment solutions for middle market businesses and their suppliers. By trade, we are a technology company, but if you ask anyone that works here, they'll tell you our people are at the core of who we are. We are all entrepreneurs who love to innovate and win with a passion for serving our customers. While we take personal ownership of our everyday work, we recognize that we only win as a team.

Since our founding in 2000 in Charlotte, NC, we've created a company of over 1,600 teammates working in one of our 7 offices across the U.S., or remotely. We're building more than a tech company - we're building an experience. We remain committed to a culture where you can fully be 'you' - connected with others, chasing big goals and making a meaningful impact. If you want to help us grow while realizing your potential and creating stories you'll tell for years, you've come to the right place.

AvidXchange is proud to be Certified™ as a Great Place to Work®. The prestigious recognition is based on anonymous data from our teammates and makes official what our teammates have known for years - that AvidXchange is a Great Place to Work®.

Job Summary

As a Platform Architect, you will be an integral member of the AvidXchange technology team, developing best-in-class advancements to our products. Accountable for partnering with key roles (e.g. product owners, system engineers, software engineers, architects of other disciplines, etc.) to craft solutions that are aligned to the architecture principles for AvidXchange's platform engineering suite of products and technical solutions.

Job Responsibilities

As a Platform Architect, your key responsibilities will be to:

• Be the architectural expert for IaC with Terraform
• Be the architectural expert for Container orchestration using Kubernetes on AKS
• Analyze necessary functionality / features to figure out appropriate complementary technologies (recommending new technologies as appropriate)
• Perform architecture reviews and assessments while working with platform teams to improve their existing solutions
• Figure out development / implementation / business efforts in terms of duration, cost, and scope
• Build, present, and document comprehensive architecture designs in a concise, yet thorough manner
• Mentor and coach engineers; leading by example, providing hands-on technical expertise, helping foster creativity, and modeling AvidXchange's core values
• Investigate new solution compatibility with the existing environments
• Collaborate with other Architects and Technical Leads to ensure consistency across teams and improve technology reuse
• Define high level architecture, standard methodologies, and guidelines that balance short-term and long-term objectives in a practical manner
• Support Other Architects in the establishment and adoption of company technology standards
• Develop strategies for risk mitigation, including risks associated with unstable or un-scalable requirements
• Lead Joint Architecture Design sessions to collaboratively design solutions
• Present solutions to the Architecture Review Board for review and approval
• Develop, define and contribute to infrastructure and security standards
• Build roadmaps for technical capabilities and contribute to technical capability backlogs that get executed by platform engineering teams
• Collaborate closely with Product Owners to ensure execution of work aligns to roadmap and vision
• Frequently interact with internal customers of technical capabilities to gain insight and tailor technical capability roadmaps to meet the customers' needs
• Lead adoption efforts and track adoption rates of technical capabilities
• Track customer satisfaction for technical capabilities and adjust roadmap as necessary to serve internal customers to the highest level

Required Experience, Qualifications, & Skills

• Bachelor's degree required and 7+ years of relevant engineering (including at least 2 years of experience with architecture)
• Strong working knowledge of system and application architecture
• Strong platform knowledge with containers and Kubernetes
• Strong IaC knowledge with Terraform
• Shell scripting experience with Bash or PowerShell
• Experience working in an Agile software development environment (Scrum / Kanban)
• Knowledge and skills surrounding Web and Public Cloud architectures
• Knowledge and skills surrounding Azure, GCP, or AWS
• Experience with CICD and GitOps
• Ability to apply models, tools and methods;
• Ability to design and develop solutions;
• Ability to integrate solutions;
• Ability to design modular architectures, platform thinking, domain-driven design
• Relevant certifications (k8s, Azure, AWS, GCP)

Equal Employment Opportunity

AvidXchange is an equal opportunity employer.AvidXchange is committed to equal employment opportunity in accordance withapplicable federal, state, and local laws. AvidXchange will not discriminateagainst applicants for employment on any legally recognized basis. Thisincludes, but is not limited to veteran status, race, color, religion, sex,sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ageand physical or mental disability.

Other details

• Job Family Software Engineering
• Job Function Software Architecture Engineering
• Pay Type Salary
• Employment Indicator Professional

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