Software Architect

COMPANY SUMMARY

Kingland develops premium, innovative enterprise software for some of the world’s most integral companies. Our products and solutions enable the largest banking & capital markets and public accounting firms to use and manage data better. Our clients support the foundation of the global financial system, helping to ensure fairness, honesty, and transparency on a global stage. We help by solving their complex data problems, and connecting and protecting their critical information. We take pride in our reputation for serving our clients like no one else can.

While we work with clients from all over the world, our unique story began in Clear Lake, Iowa in 1992. To this day, we hold true to our core values of authenticity, excellence, ownership, and creativity – these have been instilled into our culture and remain a key part of how we operate and do business. We provide exceptional opportunities for each of our team members to learn and grow their skills and careers, while also offering flexibility and balance because we recognize that enjoying life and family is a priority. At Kingland we allow employees to “live locally and work globally” by offering many positions the choice of a remote, hybrid, or in-person work approach.

Kingland is growing. We continue to seek individuals with unique skill sets and the desire to work on mission-critical projects in a collaborative and rewarding environment. Explore all the ways that you can join our team of talented individuals and launch yourself into an exciting new adventure at Kingland.

POSITION SUMMARY | Software Architect

Java. Go. Spring. Angular. Python. PostgreSQL. AI tech. AWS. These are just a few of the technologies leveraged within Kingland products and solutions architected by Software Architects at Kingland. You will have the opportunity to meet with clients to better understand their complex and challenging problems. You’ll also architect and design solutions using relational and columnar data stores, microservices and cloud architectures, text analytics, and more. Your work will help reinvent the way companies manage risk, compliance, and data.

The Software Architect has substantial experience both broad and deep covering a variety of software platforms and products. The Software Architect is responsible for guiding design choices, including but not limited to: solution components, platform components, environment details and usage of software frameworks such as Kingland Platform components. Their goal is to gain a complete understanding of the customer's needs and effectively communicate them to the team through the creation of the appropriate Design work products. The Software Architect works closely with the project team to ensure a sound understanding of requirements, feasibilities, and best practices in architecture, design, testing, and implementation for client solutions. The Software Architect works closely with the Engagement Leader and Product Manager to help estimate and prioritize the technical solution. The Software Architect is responsible for the team’s Technical Architecture Blueprint, Engineering Plan, Maintenance Plan, Configuration Management Plan and the ultimate technology success of the project, solution or product.

The Architect determines how all the important technical components come together to meet the business needs related to both functional and non-functional requirements. The individual is concerned with how the designed work gets done, how the active work is going and what design work is coming up next.

If you're curious about how technology should work and enjoy solving problems, this is the right space for you. Use your creativity, share your point of view with clients and colleagues, and have enough grit to see the project to its end. It's like a puzzle. You know there are multiple ways to architect it. Every tool and capability will be at your disposal. And you'll be able to test your enterprise software architecture ideas with other experienced professionals in the organization.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES | Software Architect

• Responsible for the delivery of the technical components of a Kingland product project on time, on budget, and with acceptable quality
• Establish overall technical architecture vision for the Platform solution and create Technical Architecture Blueprints
• Through requirement reviews and architecture/design decisions, align scope with existing Kingland capabilities and identify options to meet the business requirements in different ways, to delight the client
• Review business requirements from a technical implementation perspective, providing feedback to business analysts and requesting further requirement specifications when necessary
• Decompose the technical architecture into more granular elaboration, design and implementation work items with estimates, collaborating with Project Management on appropriate scheduling within the overall plan
• Ensure successful alignment with Kingland’s software engineering process, and provide process and standards feedback via reviews directly with Kingland’s CTO
• Provide overall leadership for a team of software engineers, reviewing requirements, designs and code to enable continued growth and to foster an overall culture of engineering excellence

POSITION REQUIREMENTS | Software Architect

• 7+ years of software engineering experience required, with 2 or more years as a software designer or architect
• Preferred experience includes Go, Java, relational and non-relational databases, Angular UI framework, enterprise architecture, DevSecOps and cloud computing
• Capable of decomposing a perceived large problem into requisite parts for problem solving
• Strong communication skills are necessary, including the ability to effectively communicate technical requirements and collaborate with clients to understand their needs
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent is preferred
• Ability to travel to Kingland office locations, as well as additional travel as required by business and client needs

BENEFITS

Kingland has a suite of world class benefits and perks. Because we understand that each team member is unique, we offer generous and flexible health and welfare, wellness, lifestyle, and total rewards benefits that are carefully picked and well designed. We are authentic in our commitment to providing team members with an exceptional experience and work hard to ensure that each individual feels valued and supported in their role, and can advance their career through development plans and growth opportunities. Visit Kingland.com/Careers for additional details!

SALARY RANGE

• $90,000 - $140,000 Annually
• Salary range may be adjusted based on geographical location

LOCATION

• This position will be based out of our modern office location in Fort Myers, Florida