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Job Summary:
InterSources Inc is seeking an Enterprise Solutions Architect responsible for defining and governing the end-to-end enterprise architecture across various platforms. This role involves ensuring alignment between business strategy and technology platforms, while providing architectural vision and oversight for frontend and backend systems.
Responsibilities:
• Define and maintain the enterprise technology blueprint covering:
• Frontend platforms (ReactJS, React Native, Micro-Frontends, SDUI)
• Backend platforms (.NET microservices, BFFs, event-driven systems)
• Cloud and infrastructure (Azure, Kubernetes, CI/CD)
• Translate business capabilities into modular, composable architecture models.
• Drive long-term technology roadmap planning, balancing innovation, scalability, and risk.
• Govern domain ownership and bounded contexts across frontend and backend systems using Domain-Driven Design (DDD).
• Ensure consistent application of Clean Architecture, CQRS, and event-driven principles across teams.
• Define standards for Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) patterns and frontend integration contracts.
• Provide architectural oversight for:
• Micro-Frontend architectures (SSR, CSR, Module Federation)
• ReactJS and React Native platforms across web, mobile, and desktop
• Server-Driven UI (SDUI) and Atomic Design implementations
• Ensure frontend platforms support white-labeling, multi-brand, and multi-region use cases.
• Guide design system strategy and UI shell patterns for associate-facing and customer-facing applications.
• Define enterprise standards for .NET microservices on Azure.
• Govern event-driven architecture, including messaging, domain events, and integration patterns.
• Ensure APIs and services are designed for scalability, versioning, and backward compatibility.
• Guide integration strategies with headless CMS, MBaaS, POS systems, and third-party platforms.
• Define enterprise-wide resilience and reliability standards, including:
• Circuit breakers, retries, bulkheads, and timeouts
• Graceful degradation and fallback strategies
• Eventual consistency models
• Ensure systems remain operational during partial failures, downstream outages, and traffic spikes.
• Align architectural decisions with performance, availability, and scalability goals.
• Define Azure-native architecture patterns using:
• AKS, Azure Functions, Service Bus, Cosmos DB, Azure SQL
• Govern containerization, Kubernetes strategies, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Ensure security, compliance, and cost-optimization considerations are embedded into architecture decisions.
• Establish architecture guardrails, reference architectures, and decision records (ADRs).
• Lead architecture reviews and approve cross-team design decisions.
• Evaluate and rationalize technology choices across the enterprise.
• Balance build vs buy decisions for commerce, CMS, and platform capabilities.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Security, and Operations leadership.
• Mentor Architects, Tech Leads, and Senior Engineers.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Extensive experience in Enterprise or Platform Architecture roles.
• Strong hands-on background in: Cloud-native backend systems (.NET, Azure, microservices)
• Modern frontend platforms (ReactJS, React Native, Micro-Frontends)
• Deep understanding of: Composable commerce architectures
• Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
• Event-driven systems
• Clean Architecture principles
• Proven experience designing resilient, distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of cross-platform application ecosystems (Web, Mobile, Desktop).
• Ability to communicate complex architecture to technical and executive audiences
Preferred:
• Experience in retail, POS, or high-volume transactional systems.
• Exposure to B2B commerce platforms.
• Familiarity with Kotlin Multiplatform / Compose Multiplatform ecosystems.
• Experience defining enterprise design system strategies.
• Background in large-scale digital transformation initiatives.
Company:
InterSources Inc. solves operational problems where protection, performance, compliance, AI, and workforce capability must work together. Founded in 2007, the company is headquartered in Fremont, USA, with a team of 501-1000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.