Principal Software Architect (C#/SQL/Azure Services)

Description

Position at loanDepot Position Summary:Responsible for providing deep expertise and thought leadership in architectural guidance, governance and value generation in one or more areas of business-critical technology. Some examples include microservice design and implementation, cloud design, cloud application enablement, cloud agnostic strategies and delivery models including containers/AKS. Other sub specializations include, but are not limited to, Artificial Intelligence LLMs and Machine Learning, Asynchronous Application Design Patterns, Observability, Application Performance Management and Self-Healing Applications.Responsibilities:

• Leads technical strategy and produces reference implementations, tooling, and abstractions that accelerate teams (≈40–60% hands-on POCs/prototyping) in their area of expertise.
• Embed with teams for complex/novel initiatives to remove blockers and land critical designs in production.
• Provides input on policies and procedures to ensure that policies adequately govern the risk while still enabling value generation.
• Within their area(s) of expertise, maintains and extends the enterprise applications knowledgebase containing standards, templates and guidance for engineering teams.
• Introduce and scale new platform capabilities deliberately (experiments → pilots → guard railed rollout) with adoption plans and training.
• Establishes, communicates, and leads the adoption of enterprise application development standards and best practices across the enterprise. Influences peers to adopt program and projects to achieve efficiencies, has the “final” responsibility to resolve any application/technology issue in their area(s) of competence.
• Works well across time zones and with 3rd party resources.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree preferred, and/or a minimum of ten (10) + years in software architecture/large-scale systems with five (5) + years depth in at least one business-critical domain (., cloud platform, microservices, data/streaming, AI/ML).
• Mortgage/FinServ experience preferred (SOX/SOC2/GLBA familiarity).
• Minimum five (5) + years’ experience in an identified business critical technology. For emerging/disruptive technology the experience requirement should be taken to mean demonstrable authoritative expertise.
• Expert with the Microsoft stack (C#, .NET, SQL) and Azure (AKS, ARM/Bicep/Terraform, managed services), multi-cloud awareness a plus.

Why work for #teamloanDepot:

• Work with other passionate, purposeful, and customer-centric team members.
• Inclusive, diverse, and collaborative culture where people from all backgrounds can thrive.
• Extensive internal growth and professional development opportunities including tuition reimbursement.
• Comprehensive benefits package including Medical/Dental/Vision.
• Wellness program to support both mental and physical health.
• Generous paid time off options to support work-life balance.