Senior Software Architect (C#, Angular) - R&D / Data Services

Company Description

IFS is a billion-dollar revenue company with 7000+ employees on all continents. Our leading AI technology is the backbone of our award-winning enterprise software solutions, enabling our customers to be their best when it really matters–at the Moment of Service™. Our commitment to internal AI adoption has allowed us to stay at the forefront of technological advancements, ensuring our colleagues can unlock their creativity and productivity, and our solutions are always cutting-edge.

At IFS, we’re flexible, we’re innovative, and we’re focused not only on how we can engage with our customers but on how we can make a real change and have a worldwide impact. We help solve some of society’s greatest challenges, fostering a better future through our agility, collaboration, and trust.

We celebrate diversity and understand our responsibility to reflect the diverse world we work in. We are committed to promoting an inclusive workforce that fully represents the many different cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints of our customers, our partners, and our communities. As a truly international company serving people from around the globe, we realize that our success is tantamount to the respect we have for those different points of view.

By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to be part of a global, diverse environment; you will be joining a winning team with a commitment to sustainability; and a company where we get things done so that you can make a positive impact on the world.

We’re looking for innovative and original thinkers to work in an environment where you can #MakeYourMoment so that we can help others make theirs. With the power of our AI-driven solutions, we empower our team to change the status quo and make a real difference.

If you want to change the status quo, we’ll help you make your moment. Join Team Purple. Join IFS.

Job Description

We strive to give our customers solutions that cover their needs now and into the future. To achieve that, we go the extra mile in terms of service, availability, and commitment. That’s why #WeAreChallengers. We’ve been continuously challenging the boundaries of business technology. Although that technology has changed over time, our singular focus on our customers and our employees has not. We are already outpacing the market by growing three times as fast as our competitors and need talented people to help us on our journey.

We're on the look out for dynamic, experienced tech enthusiasts to join our growing R&D - Data & Analytics team. 

As a Software Architect, you will play a critical role in designing and guiding the development of scalable, high-quality enterprise software. You will be responsible for defining architectural standards, ensuring system reliability, and driving best practices in software engineering. A strong foundation in microservices architecture and enterprise software development is essential, while exposure to big data technologies will be a significant advantage.

We are looking for a strategic thinker and hands-on technical leader who can work closely with engineering teams to design and implement robust, secure, and high-performance solutions. If you are proactive, take ownership, communicate effectively, and naturally share your knowledge with others, we want to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and design scalable, maintainable, and secure microservices-based solutions.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to engineering teams, ensuring best practices in software development, DevOps, and cloud-native architectures.
• Define and enforce enterprise-grade software development standards, focusing on security, performance, and maintainability.
• Drive high-quality software engineering practices, including test automation, CI/CD, and observability.
• Evaluate and recommend technologies, frameworks, and tools to enhance software capabilities, with a preference for cloud-native and big data solutions.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business and functional requirements into scalable technical designs.
• Mentor and coach engineers to build technical excellence within the team.
• Continuously research emerging technologies and apply them to improve product capabilities.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in software architecture and enterprise application development.
• Deep expertise in microservices architecture, including API design, service orchestration, and containerization (Docker/Kubernetes).
• Strong on software engineering concepts and design patterns like SOLID.
• Expertise in writing high-quality, testable, and maintainable software that meets enterprise standards.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD, DevOps.
  • Knowledge on ArgoCD and GitOps would be a plus
• Knowledge of big data technologies (e.g., Apache Spark, Kafka, Iceberg, Hadoop) is a strong advantage.
• Strong ability to critically evaluate and challenge technical decisions, propose innovative alternatives, and bridge gaps when requirements are ambiguous.

Additional Information

As a step in our recruitment process, all final candidates will undergo a background check, to get us an understanding of our future employees.

We respectfully decline all offers of recruitment and/or advertising assistance.

We believe that coming together as a community, in person, is important for innovation, connection and fostering a sense of belonging. Our roles have the right balance of remote and in-office working to enable flexibility for managing your life along with ensuring a real connection with your colleagues and the broader IFS community.