Business Architect, Part-Time Contract

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Part-time Business Architect designing scalable Azure and .NET solutions for Applaudo’s AI-powered technology products. Leading architecture discovery, modernization, documentation, and stakeholder decision-making.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead discovery sessions and turn business needs into architecture proposals, non-functional requirements, and technical roadmaps
  • Design solutions for high-volume data and media workloads, covering scalability, resilience, storage, and cost
  • Assess the current technology landscape and propose modernization plans based on risks such as end of support, capacity, and security
  • Evaluate options and justify decisions and budgets with clear trade-offs and detailed analysis
  • Produce and maintain architecture documentation, including solution diagrams, architecture decision records, technical specifications, and disaster recovery
  • Collaborate with release and quality processes, including risk classification of changes, rollback and backup strategies, and change approval
  • Communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders in Spanish and English
  • Share project knowledge across the team
  • Identify process improvement opportunities and create new business opportunities aligned with business objectives

Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field is desired, or equivalent professional experience
  • 5+ years of hands-on software development experience
  • 2+ years in technical leadership or solution architecture
  • Backend architecture experience with .NET or an equivalent enterprise stack
  • Cloud architecture experience on Azure, including app services, databases, data pipelines, networking, and security
  • Experience with distributed and service-oriented architectures, APIs, integrations, and messaging
  • Data architecture knowledge, relational databases, performance, archiving, and retention
  • Experience with CI/CD and code quality practices, including Azure DevOps or Jenkins and static analysis
  • Knowledge of Agile methodologies, software testing strategy, and software development and design patterns
  • Ability to document architecture through solution diagrams, ADRs, and technical specifications, including disaster recovery
  • Ability to justify decisions and budgets to a client
  • Persuasive communication skills for technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Strong analytical skills and a preventive approach to identifying and mitigating technology risks
  • Spanish and English communication skills

Benefits:

  • Part-time contractor model (22 hours per week) for an initial period of 3 months, with the possibility of extension