Software Architect

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Company Description

Valere is an award-winning partner specializing in AI transformation and custom software solutions, helping businesses evolve into AI-driven organizations. Recognized as a top 1% expert-vetted agency on platforms like Upwork, Clutch, and G2, Valere collaborates with private equity firms, mid-market businesses, and Fortune 500 enterprises to provide measurable ROI through innovative AI strategies. Backed by a team of over 220 experienced professionals, Valere delivers tailored end-to-end solutions using its proven "crawl-walk-run" methodology, supporting every stage of the AI journey from strategy development to seamless implementation. Valere combines high-quality standards with cost-effective models to deliver meaningful results to its clients.

Role Description

We’re looking for an exceptional Principal Architect to join our growing Cloud Architecture & Engineering team. We need a cloud professional who can comfortably navigate deep technical environments and drive our core engineering innovation forward. You won't just be designing high-level systems on a whiteboard; you'll be rolling up your sleeves with the latest technologies to build scalable, cutting-edge cloud architectures, serving as the ultimate technical anchor for our development teams.

Responsibilities

• Architecting & Building: You'll design cloud architectures and actively contribute to development, writing foundational code, establishing integrations, and building microservices.
• Code Quality & Optimization: You'll lead code reviews, define engineering standards, and refactor our cloud infrastructure for performance and scale.
• Guiding the Team: You’ll guide development teams through technical implementations, contribute to Agile ceremonies, and provide architectural direction across internal projects.
• Technical Leadership: You’ll serve as a technical advisor and engineering lead across multiple development workstreams.
• Tackling the Hard Stuff: You'll help clear technical roadblocks, debugging system interactions, and architecting solutions for specific engineering problems.
• Mentorship: You’ll mentor engineers across various projects to elevate our technical execution, promote best practices, and foster team growth.
• Technical Documentation: You’ll create clear architectural documentation and internal content for Valere’s engineering team.

Qualifications

• Experience: 5+ years of experience working as a hands-on Architect or Lead Engineer in enterprise environments.
• Cloud & Serverless Knowledge: You have hands-on expertise in serverless development (specifically API Gateway, Lambda, S3, SNS, SQS, and CloudFront), managing AWS environments, and implementing Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC).
• Development Fundamentals: You aren't just an architect; you are a capable developer. You have hands-on experience building applications and are comfortable jumping into the codebase to write, test, and deploy code.
• DevOps Chops: You bring experience with DevOps automation, including knowledge of containerization, API management, and multi-cloud solutions.
• Problem Solving: You demonstrate critical thinking across technical challenges. You proactively identify and mitigate architectural bottlenecks and system risks.
• Technical Alignment: You build trust with engineering teams and technical stakeholders through transparency and reliable delivery. You know how to align dev teams around a single technical vision.
• Calm Under Pressure: You remain composed during technical outages or unexpected system behaviors. You know how to guide cross-functional dev teams through incident resolutions with clear next steps.
• Great Communication: You have the ability to clearly communicate architectural decisions and technical objectives to the engineering team.

Nice to Have

• You've been involved in cloud migrations and legacy refactoring.
• You have hands-on experience building CI/CD pipelines.
• You know your way around Infrastructure-as-Code tools (like Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK,