Associate Technical Architect Jobs in New York (NOW HIRING)

Mandatory Skills - React.js & TypeScript &  Node.js & Azure & PostgreSQL

Job Description

A reputed tax and audit consulting organization is seeking a Technical Architect to provide end-to-end architecture leadership for a modern digital platform built using React.js, TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL and Microsoft Azure. The Technical Architect will be accountable for technology direction, architectural integrity, non-functional requirements, security alignment, engineering standards and cross-platform integration across multiple delivery teams.

Roles & Responsibilities

·       Own the target application architecture and technical roadmap.

·       Define platform-wide architecture principles and reference patterns.

·       Provide authority for major cross-team technical decisions.

·       Ensure alignment across portal, services, data, integration, identity and operations.

·       Govern scalability, security, resilience and production readiness.

·       Guide Associate Technical Architects, Technical Leads and engineering teams.

·       Define and maintain the technical architecture vision and roadmap.

·       Establish reference architectures for React, TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL and Azure.

·       Approve major architecture decisions and exceptions.

·       Maintain architecture principles, standards, technical-debt views and decision records.

·       Define boundaries between experience, application, integration, data and operational services.

·       Establish enterprise React/TypeScript, component, design-system and accessibility standards.

·       Guide authentication-aware, entitlement-aware and responsive portal architecture.

·       Prevent tightly coupled designs and duplicated business logic.

·       Establish Node.js service and API-governance standards.

·       Guide synchronous, asynchronous and event-driven integrations, resilience and observability.

·       Define PostgreSQL persistence patterns, data-ownership boundaries, auditing and retention.

·       Define Azure hosting, identity, secrets, monitoring, networking, scalability and disaster-recovery patterns.

·       Embed security, threat modeling and confidential-data handling into architecture.

·       Lead architecture and design-review forums across multiple engineering teams.

·       Communicate trade-offs, risks and recommendations to product, delivery and executive stakeholders.

·       Support roadmap planning, vendor alignment, release readiness and production incident reviews.

Enterprise Architecture

·       Enterprise application and solution architecture

·       React.js and TypeScript architecture

·       Node.js service and API architecture

·       PostgreSQL and relational-data architecture

·       Microsoft Azure architecture

Governance & Leadership

·       Security and identity architecture

·       Integration and event-driven architecture

·       Non-functional requirements and capacity planning

·       Architecture governance, technical roadmaps and decision records

·       Leadership across multiple engineering teams and senior stakeholder communication

User Experience & Front-End Foundations

·       HTML5 and semantic markup

·       CSS3 and responsive web design

·       Accessibility-aware UI development

·       React Query, Redux Toolkit, Zustand, Material UI, Fluent UI, Tailwind CSS or Bootstrap

Engineering Tooling

·       Jest, Vitest, React Testing Library, Playwright or Cypress

·       Docker and container-based deployment

·       Azure DevOps, YAML pipelines and automated quality gates

·       OpenAPI or Swagger

·       OWASP and secure-coding awareness

Broader Platform Exposure

·       Micro-frontends, containers and orchestration

·       API gateways and event-messaging platforms

·       Data-platform and analytics integration

·       AI application architecture and RAG awareness

·       Regulated financial, tax, audit or compliance platforms

Preferred

·       Cursor or Cursor AI

·       Claude or Claude Code

·       GitHub Copilot or comparable AI coding assistants

·       AI-assisted code generation, refactoring, testing, debugging and documentation

·       Human review of generated code and compliance with confidentiality, security, licensing and quality controls

·       10+ years of software-engineering and architecture experience.

·       At least 3 years in a Technical Architect, Application Architect or comparable architecture role.

·       Proven architecture experience across React, TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL and Azure.

·       Experience guiding multiple engineering teams or delivery partners.

·       Demonstrated ownership of non-functional requirements and production architecture.

·       Trusted architecture authority with strong implementation credibility

·       Defines strategy while understanding delivery realities

·       Documents clear decisions and trade-offs

·       Identifies cross-platform risks early

·       Promotes reuse and reduces technology fragmentation

·       Develops Associate Architects and Technical Leads