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Remote software architect jobs are open across the U.S. at remote-first firms, distributed engineering teams, and technology-driven companies in sectors like software, fintech, healthcare technology, and enterprise cloud services. Employers currently hiring include Twilio, Clarity Innovations, and NPR. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Job Title for Careers Page: Software Architect – AI-Enabled Enterprise Platform
Location: Remote (preferred local to the DMV area)
Clearance Level: Ability to obtain a Secret clearance
Required Certification(s): None
SUMMARY
Agile Defense is seeking a hands-on Software Architect to own the architecture and technical direction of Workforce, an AI-enabled enterprise application platform focused on secure, user-centered workflows, enterprise integrations, and cloud-native delivery. Workforce is built as a set of containerized microservices deployed to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) in Azure Government Community Cloud (GCC), combining modern web application development, API-driven services, AI-assisted capabilities, and secure deployment practices.
The Software Architect is the senior technical owner of the platform. This person sets architectural direction, leads the engineering team’s technical execution, serves as Release Manager for the platform’s multi-service release train, and partners with the Product Manager to turn roadmap priorities into executable plans. This is a hands-on role: the Software Architect is expected to stay close to the code, regularly designing, implementing, reviewing, and debugging software alongside the team.
JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Architecture and Technical Direction
- Own the architecture, technical direction, and engineering standards for the Workforce platform and its microservices.
- Define and document service boundaries, API contracts, data flows, integration patterns, and key technical decisions, including the tradeoffs behind them.
- Lead the design of the platform’s AI-enabled architecture, including tool calling, system instructions, context management, prompt and control flow design, and integration with LLM-based services.
- Design secure enterprise integrations, including identity, document workflows, collaboration tools, and external platform APIs.
- Identify and manage technical debt, platform risk, and architectural drift, making pragmatic decisions about when to refactor and when to ship.
Technical Leadership and Delivery
- Lead technical execution for the Workforce engineering team, including solution design, task breakdown, estimation, sequencing, and code review.
- Partner with the Product Manager to translate product goals, user workflows, and requirements into technical designs, milestones, and well-scoped engineering work.
- Establish and uphold standards for code quality, automated testing, documentation, and definition of done.
- Mentor engineers through design reviews, pairing, code reviews, and direct technical feedback.
- Serve as the primary technical point of contact for engineering leadership, product, and customer stakeholders on status, risk, and technical tradeoffs.
Release Management and Operations
- Serve as Release Manager for the platform’s multi-service release train, coordinating release readiness, release notes, and release records.
- Represent the team in change control and release review processes, presenting changes, risk, and rollback plans for approval.
- Own production posture for the platform, including rollback decisions, incident triage, root cause follow-through, and post-release verification.
- Collaborate with platform and DevOps engineers on CI/CD pipelines, Helm-based deployments to AKS, observability, autoscaling, and performance testing.
Hands-On Engineering
- Contribute directly to the codebase, including feature implementation, critical-path work, integration work, and production fixes.
- Build and maintain full stack capabilities across modern web front ends and backend web APIs.
QUALIFICATIONS
Required Certifications
None required.
Education, Background, and Years of Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience building and maintaining production applications.
- 5+ years designing and owning production application architecture, including leading technical execution for an engineering team as a software architect, technical lead, or senior technical owner.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance.
ADDITIONAL SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS
Required Skills
- Strong hands-on coding ability in at least one object-oriented, strongly typed language such as Java, C#, TypeScript, Go, or Kotlin.
- Professional experience building both modern web front-end applications and backend web APIs, services, and integration layers.
- Demonstrated ownership of production application architecture across front-end, backend, data, and integration concerns.
- Experience planning and delivering work for a team, including breaking complex requirements into milestones and tasks and managing dependencies.
- Experience with structured release practices for distributed or multi-service systems, including versioning, change control, release coordination, and rollback.
- Strong understanding of API design, authentication and authorization patterns, data modeling, error handling, testing, and maintainability.
- Practical understanding of secure software development, including access control, data protection, dependency hygiene, and production readiness.
- Working knowledge of AI-first application patterns: tool calling, system instruction design, context management and retrieval grounding, and integrating LLM capabilities into a broader application architecture.
- Ability to onboard into a large, complex codebase quickly and become the technical authority with limited handoff.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical tradeoffs, risk, and status to engineers, product stakeholders, and executive leadership.
Preferred Skills
- Experience with TypeScript, Node.js, and React.
- Experience with microservices, containerized applications, Kubernetes (AKS preferred), Helm, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience delivering in Azure Government, Azure GCC, or other compliance-constrained cloud environments.
- Experience with LangChain, LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, LlamaIndex, OpenAI/Azure OpenAI APIs, or similar frameworks.
- Experience serving as Release Manager or participating in a formal Change Control Board.
- Experience integrating with Microsoft 365, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, or similar enterprise collaboration platforms.
- Experience with OIDC/OAuth2, Keycloak, Entra ID, or other identity providers.
- Experience designing applications that handle sensitive data, enterprise permissions, auditability, or compliance requirements.
- Familiarity with DevSecOps practices, APM and observability tooling, autoscaling, and production support.
- Experience with AI-enabled document workflows, search and summarization, workflow automation, or agentic application patterns.
- Experience on SaaS, enterprise, government, or secure internal platforms.
WORKING CONDITIONS
Environmental Conditions
Work is performed in a standard office or remote work environment with minimal exposure to health or safety hazards.
Strength Demands
Sedentary: exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally. Work involves sitting most of the time.
Physical Requirements
Prolonged periods of sitting and working at a computer. Ability to communicate clearly in person, by phone, and through video conferencing, and to read and interpret documents and on-screen information.
- Happy - Be Infectious. Happiness multiplies and creates a positive and connected environment where motivation and satisfaction have an outsized effect on everything we do.
- Helpful - Be Supportive. Being helpful is the foundation of teamwork, resulting in a supportive atmosphere where collaboration flourishes, and collective success is celebrated.
- Honest - Be Trustworthy. Honesty serves as our compass, ensuring transparent communication and ethical conduct, essential to who we are and the complex domains we support.
- Humble - Be Grounded. Success is not achieved alone, humility ensures a culture of mutual respect, encouraging open communication, and a willingness to learn from one another and take on any task.
- Hungry - Be Eager. Our hunger for excellence drives an insatiable appetite for innovation and continuous improvement, propelling us forward in the face of new and unprecedented challenges.
- Hustle - Be Driven. Hustle is reflected in our relentless work ethic, where we are each committed to going above and beyond to advance the mission and achieve success.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
Requisition #:
Job Title for Careers Page: Software Architect – AI-Enabled Enterprise Platform
Location: Remote (preferred local to the DMV area)
Clearance Level: Ability to obtain a Secret clearance
Required Certification(s): None
SUMMARY
Agile Defense is seeking a hands-on Software Architect to own the architecture and technical direction of Workforce, an AI-enabled enterprise application platform focused on secure, user-centered workflows, enterprise integrations, and cloud-native delivery. Workforce is built as a set of containerized microservices deployed to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) in Azure Government Community Cloud (GCC), combining modern web application development, API-driven services, AI-assisted capabilities, and secure deployment practices.
The Software Architect is the senior technical owner of the platform. This person sets architectural direction, leads the engineering team’s technical execution, serves as Release Manager for the platform’s multi-service release train, and partners with the Product Manager to turn roadmap priorities into executable plans. This is a hands-on role: the Software Architect is expected to stay close to the code, regularly designing, implementing, reviewing, and debugging software alongside the team.
JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Architecture and Technical Direction
- Own the architecture, technical direction, and engineering standards for the Workforce platform and its microservices.
- Define and document service boundaries, API contracts, data flows, integration patterns, and key technical decisions, including the tradeoffs behind them.
- Lead the design of the platform’s AI-enabled architecture, including tool calling, system instructions, context management, prompt and control flow design, and integration with LLM-based services.
- Design secure enterprise integrations, including identity, document workflows, collaboration tools, and external platform APIs.
- Identify and manage technical debt, platform risk, and architectural drift, making pragmatic decisions about when to refactor and when to ship.
Technical Leadership and Delivery
- Lead technical execution for the Workforce engineering team, including solution design, task breakdown, estimation, sequencing, and code review.
- Partner with the Product Manager to translate product goals, user workflows, and requirements into technical designs, milestones, and well-scoped engineering work.
- Establish and uphold standards for code quality, automated testing, documentation, and definition of done.
- Mentor engineers through design reviews, pairing, code reviews, and direct technical feedback.
- Serve as the primary technical point of contact for engineering leadership, product, and customer stakeholders on status, risk, and technical tradeoffs.
Release Management and Operations
- Serve as Release Manager for the platform’s multi-service release train, coordinating release readiness, release notes, and release records.
- Represent the team in change control and release review processes, presenting changes, risk, and rollback plans for approval.
- Own production posture for the platform, including rollback decisions, incident triage, root cause follow-through, and post-release verification.
- Collaborate with platform and DevOps engineers on CI/CD pipelines, Helm-based deployments to AKS, observability, autoscaling, and performance testing.
Hands-On Engineering
- Contribute directly to the codebase, including feature implementation, critical-path work, integration work, and production fixes.
- Build and maintain full stack capabilities across modern web front ends and backend web APIs.
QUALIFICATIONS
Required Certifications
None required.
Education, Background, and Years of Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience building and maintaining production applications.
- 5+ years designing and owning production application architecture, including leading technical execution for an engineering team as a software architect, technical lead, or senior technical owner.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance.
ADDITIONAL SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS
Required Skills
- Strong hands-on coding ability in at least one object-oriented, strongly typed language such as Java, C#, TypeScript, Go, or Kotlin.
- Professional experience building both modern web front-end applications and backend web APIs, services, and integration layers.
- Demonstrated ownership of production application architecture across front-end, backend, data, and integration concerns.
- Experience planning and delivering work for a team, including breaking complex requirements into milestones and tasks and managing dependencies.
- Experience with structured release practices for distributed or multi-service systems, including versioning, change control, release coordination, and rollback.
- Strong understanding of API design, authentication and authorization patterns, data modeling, error handling, testing, and maintainability.
- Practical understanding of secure software development, including access control, data protection, dependency hygiene, and production readiness.
- Working knowledge of AI-first application patterns: tool calling, system instruction design, context management and retrieval grounding, and integrating LLM capabilities into a broader application architecture.
- Ability to onboard into a large, complex codebase quickly and become the technical authority with limited handoff.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical tradeoffs, risk, and status to engineers, product stakeholders, and executive leadership.
Preferred Skills
- Experience with TypeScript, Node.js, and React.
- Experience with microservices, containerized applications, Kubernetes (AKS preferred), Helm, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience delivering in Azure Government, Azure GCC, or other compliance-constrained cloud environments.
- Experience with LangChain, LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, LlamaIndex, OpenAI/Azure OpenAI APIs, or similar frameworks.
- Experience serving as Release Manager or participating in a formal Change Control Board.
- Experience integrating with Microsoft 365, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, or similar enterprise collaboration platforms.
- Experience with OIDC/OAuth2, Keycloak, Entra ID, or other identity providers.
- Experience designing applications that handle sensitive data, enterprise permissions, auditability, or compliance requirements.
- Familiarity with DevSecOps practices, APM and observability tooling, autoscaling, and production support.
- Experience with AI-enabled document workflows, search and summarization, workflow automation, or agentic application patterns.
- Experience on SaaS, enterprise, government, or secure internal platforms.
WORKING CONDITIONS
Environmental Conditions
Work is performed in a standard office or remote work environment with minimal exposure to health or safety hazards.
Strength Demands
Sedentary: exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally. Work involves sitting most of the time.
Physical Requirements
Prolonged periods of sitting and working at a computer. Ability to communicate clearly in person, by phone, and through video conferencing, and to read and interpret documents and on-screen information.
- Happy - Be Infectious. Happiness multiplies and creates a positive and connected environment where motivation and satisfaction have an outsized effect on everything we do.
- Helpful - Be Supportive. Being helpful is the foundation of teamwork, resulting in a supportive atmosphere where collaboration flourishes, and collective success is celebrated.
- Honest - Be Trustworthy. Honesty serves as our compass, ensuring transparent communication and ethical conduct, essential to who we are and the complex domains we support.
- Humble - Be Grounded. Success is not achieved alone, humility ensures a culture of mutual respect, encouraging open communication, and a willingness to learn from one another and take on any task.
- Hungry - Be Eager. Our hunger for excellence drives an insatiable appetite for innovation and continuous improvement, propelling us forward in the face of new and unprecedented challenges.
- Hustle - Be Driven. Hustle is reflected in our relentless work ethic, where we are each committed to going above and beyond to advance the mission and achieve success.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software
- Healthcare & Medical Services
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote software architect jobs.
- 8+ years of software engineering experience with at least 3 in an architecture or technical lead role
- Demonstrated expertise designing distributed systems, microservices, or cloud-native applications at scale
- Proficiency with at least one major cloud platform such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
- Strong command of architectural patterns including event-driven design, domain-driven design, and API strategy
- Experience producing architecture documentation and presenting technical decisions to executive stakeholders
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related technical field
Tips for Your Remote Software Architect Job Search
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote software architect openings from across the U.S. in one place, so you can find roles that match your stack and seniority level and apply directly without sorting through mixed location listings.
Show async leadership in your portfolio
Remote engineering teams need architects who lead through documentation, not hallway conversations. Publish architecture decision records, system design writeups, or RFC-style documents you've authored to demonstrate you can align distributed teams through clear written communication.
Target remote-first companies specifically
Remote-first firms build processes around distributed work from day one, meaning a remote software architect integrates naturally instead of adapting to an office-centric culture. Look for companies that publish async-first engineering blogs, use tools like Notion for technical decision tracking, and have engineering leadership distributed across time zones.
Prepare for distributed system design interviews
Remote software architect interviews frequently focus on distributed systems, API design, and cloud-native architecture decisions made without real-time collaboration. Practice articulating trade-offs in writing and whiteboarding tools like Excalidraw or Miro, since remote interviewers often run system design sessions asynchronously or over video with shared canvases.
Remote Software Architect Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote software architect job?
Remote software architect roles go to candidates who can demonstrate strong async communication, independent technical decision-making, and the ability to lead distributed engineering teams without in-person oversight. Remote employers screen heavily for clear written documentation, experience with tools like Confluence, Jira, and Slack, and a portfolio of architecture decisions you owned end-to-end. Candidates who show they can align distributed teams around technical strategy have a clear edge.
Which companies hire remote software architects?
Employers currently hiring remote software architects include Twilio, Clarity Innovations, and NPR, per current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of September 2026. Remote-first technology companies, distributed SaaS teams, and cloud-native fintech and healthcare technology firms make up the majority of employers hiring software architects fully remotely.
Can you get a remote software architect job with no experience?
Yes, but remote entry paths are narrower because remote software architect roles require strong self-direction from day one. Early-career candidates have the most success at remote-first startups and smaller distributed teams that value portfolio work, open-source architecture contributions, and demonstrated system design thinking over years of employment. Documenting architecture decisions you made in personal or volunteer projects gives remote employers something concrete to evaluate.
Do you need a degree for remote software architect jobs?
Not always. Remote employers for software architect roles weigh demonstrated system design ability, hands-on engineering depth, and a record of technical leadership more heavily than a specific credential. A strong portfolio of architecture diagrams, design documents, and shipped systems often carries more weight than a degree, particularly at remote-first companies and distributed product teams that evaluate candidates on output.
Which industries hire the most remote software architects?
Most remote software architect openings sit in Technology & Software and Healthcare & Medical Services, per current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of September 2026. These sectors rely on distributed engineering teams building complex, scalable systems, which makes remote software architect hiring a natural fit across their organizations.
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