[Hiring] Software Architect @RDA

Role Description

RDA is seeking a hands-on Software Architect to define the technical vision for complex custom application, AI, and MarTech engagements. You will translate business requirements into scalable, secure architectures and guide solutions from discovery through delivery.

In this client-facing role, you will:

• Architect production agentic AI solutions.
• Establish governance and observability practices.
• Ensure appropriate human review and controls.
• Remain hands-on with tools such as Claude Code while leading teams.
• Support pursuits, mentor engineers, and contribute reusable patterns and accelerators.

Location: This is a remote U.S.-based position. Candidates located in the Eastern time zone are preferred, with Central time zone candidates also considered. RDA is unable to hire candidates residing in California, Colorado, Oregon, or Washington.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including meaningful experience performing in an architecture capacity.
• Hands-on experience delivering agentic AI solutions in production using real business data and operational workflows.
• Practical experience using Claude Code to develop solutions; experience integrating Anthropic, OpenAI, or other LLM APIs is also valuable.
• Substantive depth in either .NET/C# or React/Next.js, along with credible hands-on experience and the ability to architect across both.
• Strong custom application and cloud-native architecture experience, including distributed systems, APIs, relational and non-relational databases.
• Experience with AI governance, observability, context engineering, RAG, prompt architecture, model evaluation, and security considerations associated with production AI systems.
• Consulting and client-facing experience with primarily commercial enterprises.

Requirements

• Lead technical discovery and define end-to-end architectures for custom application, AI, and MarTech engagements.
• Architect and help deliver production agentic AI solutions, including tool use, function calling, multi-agent workflows, and human-in-the-loop checkpoints.
• Use Claude Code and other modern AI-assisted development tools to build, validate, troubleshoot, and accelerate solutions.
• Evaluate AI opportunities during the architecture phase and make informed decisions based on business needs, risk, scalability, and maintainability.
• Establish AI governance and observability practices, including output monitoring and safeguards against risks.
• Design cloud-native, distributed applications using .NET/C#, React/Next.js, Azure, modern APIs, microservices, and CI/CD.
• Partner with clients, business stakeholders, and pursuit teams to shape solutions and contribute to proposals and statements of work.
• Mentor engineers and create reusable application patterns, AI accelerators, and integration frameworks.

Benefits

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Retirement Plan (401k, IRA)
• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
• Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
• Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity)
• Short Term & Long Term Disability
• Training & Development
• Work From Home
• Wellness Resources