[Hiring] Full Stack Technical Architect @Perficient

Role Description

The ideal candidate is a hands-on architect who can define technical strategy, guide engineering teams, and ensure applications are both built and supported effectively in production environments. You will:

• Drive best practices around application reliability, observability, performance, and operational excellence.
• Leverage AI-powered tools such as GitHub Copilot and Claude to improve engineering productivity.
• Work across the full application lifecycle, from solution design and development through production support and continuous improvement.
• Partner closely with client stakeholders and engineering teams to build scalable, secure, and resilient solutions.
• Establish best practices for application reliability, observability, performance, and operational excellence.
• Champion modern engineering practices and the adoption of AI-powered development tools.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with a strong focus on enterprise application development.
• 4+ years of experience in a Technical Architect, Solution Architect, Lead Engineer, or Principal Engineer role.
• Deep expertise in .NET/C# and modern application architecture patterns.
• Strong experience designing and implementing solutions on Microsoft Azure.
• Extensive experience building enterprise web applications using React and modern frontend frameworks.
• Experience architecting cloud-native applications, microservices, APIs, and distributed systems.
• Demonstrated experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude, or similar platforms.
• Strong understanding of software architecture principles, security, performance optimization, scalability, and resiliency.
• Experience providing day two support activities for enterprise applications.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and modern software delivery methodologies.
• Strong stakeholder management and client engagement experience.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and technical leadership skills.
• Proven ability to mentor teams and influence technical direction across multiple projects.
• At least 5 years of experience in technology consulting, enterprise and solutions architecture and architectural frameworks.
• Knowledge and experience in developing software using agile methodologies.
• Skilled in building relationships with clients and in practice development activities.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills; Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical staff.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Experience working with a globally distributed team and managing off-shore teams.
• Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, streamline workflows, and support data-informed task execution.
• Familiarity with AI-enhanced platforms is a plus.
• A solid understanding of AI capabilities and limitations including ethical considerations is expected.

Responsibilities

• Provide architectural solutions/designs to project execution teams for implementation.
• Provide technology architectural assessments, strategies, and roadmaps for one or more technology domains.
• Work with application developers, users, operational leadership, and subject matter experts to understand current and future operational data analysis goals.
• Recommend modern technology stacks to meet those goals and help engineering teams migrate towards their use.
• Collaborate with the customer's operations and technology leadership on the future analytic goals of the organization, and design a technical architecture to meet those goals.
• Participate in configuring the architecture, and advise engineering teams on its efficient use.
• Lead a work stream or act as a team lead and manage non-complex components of the work plan/project.
• Utilize analytical, process, and/or technical skills to meet project objectives and deliverables that are self-directed and within project scope.

Benefits

• Competitive salary range: $90,000.00 to $149,880.00.
• Comprehensive benefits overview available upon request.