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INTRODUCTION
Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions is seeking a Senior Software Architect to lead end-to-end solution delivery, combining platform development, client engagement, and partner integrations for major retail platform. This role unifies architecture leadership (design, trade-offs, governance), platform building (infrastructure, core capabilities), client solution delivery (discovery, implementation, support), and AI-enabled acceleration to ensure high-quality, scalable, and future-ready solutions. You will own the complete architecture lifecycle — from discovery and design to delivery and operational readiness — guiding both the Discovery Track (rapid prototyping, feasibility validation, client alignment) and the Delivery Track (production implementation, measurable outcomes) while building the underlying platform capabilities that enable future solutions. The ideal candidate blends deep architecture expertise, software development, client engagement skills, integration experience, and practical use of AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery while maintaining architectural integrity and operational excellence.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Key Focus Areas
Platform Infrastructure & Core Capabilities
- Design and implement scalable platform infrastructure to support emerging use cases and product evolution.
- Build and evolve core platform capabilities — APIs, microservices, data pipelines, and shared services.
- Define architecture patterns and frameworks that enable rapid feature development and platform extensibility.
- Lead technical design for new product capabilities as business requirements evolve.
Client Engagement & Solution Delivery
- Own end-to-end solution delivery for client projects, converting business needs into validated architectures and working implementations.
- Lead client-facing architecture activities: facilitate workshops, present technical solutions, drive approvals, and act as subject-matter expert.
- Translate discovery outcomes into structured delivery backlogs that preserve design intent and architecture standards.
- Ensure traceability from business requirements to implemented solutions with full operational accountability.
Product & Partner Integration Architecture
- Own integration architecture design across partner ecosystems — payments, loyalty, inventory, and cloud services.
- Define and enforce integration patterns, API contracts, and data models ensuring interoperability and scalability.
- Establish and maintain partner integration architectures, including authentication, error handling, and versioning strategies.
- Govern solution design and trade-offs with a focus on performance, security, and operational resilience.
Dual-Track Delivery Leadership
- Lead Discovery and Delivery Tracks within Dual-Track Agile — from exploratory prototypes to validated production implementations.
- Drive Discovery Track activities: rapid prototyping, feasibility validation, and stakeholder alignment before full implementation.
- Translate discovery outcomes into delivery backlogs while maintaining architecture quality and non-functional requirements.
- Ensure seamless transition from discovery to delivery with clear design intent and technical specifications.
Hands-On Technical Contribution
- Build production-quality implementations of critical platform components, client solutions, and new infrastructure.
- Lead by example through active coding, prototyping, and technical problem-solving.
- Implement and demo reference code or critical components for both platform capabilities and client solutions.
- Participate in code reviews and hands-on delivery of complex features.
- Work primarily with cloud-native stacks (Java/Spring Boot, TypeScript, React/Vue, Docker/Kubernetes).
Governance, Mentorship & Continuous Improvement
- Define and uphold architecture standards, reusable patterns, and non-functional requirements (security, scalability, observability).
- Mentor engineers and junior architects on design practices, infrastructure patterns, and AI-assisted development.
- Conduct code reviews and enforce architecture governance, promoting best practices across teams.
- Contribute to platform strategy — identifying reusable assets, shared APIs, and infrastructure opportunities.
Key Responsibilities
Architecture & Design
- Lead end-to-end solution architecture across discovery, design, delivery, and operational readiness for both platform and client solutions.
- Design and build new platform infrastructure to support emerging product requirements and use cases.
- Produce and maintain key architectural artifacts: ADRs, interface contracts, data flow diagrams, infrastructure specs, sequencing diagrams, migration/rollback plans, and traceability matrices.
- Define and enforce architecture standards, integration patterns, and non-functional requirements across all solutions.
Platform Development
- Write production code for critical platform features and infrastructure components.
- Build core platform capabilities that enable rapid feature development and solution delivery.
- Establish reusable patterns, shared services, and API-first designs for platform extensibility.
- Serve as active technical lead in client engagements.
- Lead Discovery Track activities.
- Drive approvals and alignment across business and technical stakeholders.
Integration & Partnerships
- Establish and maintain partner integration architectures across third-party ecosystems.
- Govern architecture consistency across partner integrations and internal product lines.
- Define authentication strategies (OAuth, SAML, API keys), error handling, and API versioning.
Quality & Governance
- Ensure architecture quality gates and participate in design reviews and release sign-offs.
- Identify and mitigate architecture risks — compatibility, data integrity, scalability, and partner dependencies.
- Own risk analysis and mitigation for architecture decisions, including backward compatibility and compliance constraints.
Continuous Improvement
- Contribute to continuous improvement through reusable patterns, automation, and cross-team alignment.
- Mentor and upskill engineers and architects on AI-assisted development, Dual-Track workflows, and platform best practices.
- Contribute to platform and portfolio strategy, identifying gaps requiring investment and reusable assets.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
Must-Have
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- 8 years of professional software development experience, including recent hands-on coding and prototyping in modern technology stacks.
- 5+ years designing cloud-native, microservices, or event-driven architectures (Azure or equivalent cloud platforms).
- Strong experience building platform infrastructure and scalable backend systems.
- Proven experience owning end-to-end solution delivery, including design, implementation, and post-release operational accountability for medium-to-large projects.
- Experience with partner integrations — payments, SaaS APIs, loyalty, inventory, or authentication providers.
- Hands-on experience building prototypes or reference implementations to validate architecture and solution feasibility.
- Expertise in API-first design (REST/OpenAPI).
- Experience with relational/non-relational databases (SQL/NoSQL).
- Solid grasp of containerization, CI/CD, and Kubernetes-based delivery pipelines.
- Practical experience with generative AI and AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor).
- Excellent stakeholder communication skills, able to facilitate workshops, present technical solutions, and collaborate across business and engineering teams.
- Proven leadership in mentoring engineers, conducting code reviews, and enforcing architecture governance.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Strong retail platform domain knowledge (POS systems, store operations, payment processing).
- Certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect, AWS Solutions Architect, or equivalent.
- Experience with API Gateway or Integration Platforms (Azure APIM, Kong, Apigee, MuleSoft, Boomi).
- Solid understanding of API security and compliance (OAuth 2.0/OIDC, JWT, PCI).
- Familiarity with formal specifications (OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, JSON Schema) for contract-driven development.
- Background in distributed systems, microservices architecture, and infrastructure as code.
- Experience leading Dual-Track Agile processes, managing both Discovery and Delivery Tracks, and translating discovery outcomes into actionable backlog items.
- Experience contributing to platform strategy, reusable assets, and API-first designs.
COMPENSATION
Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions, Inc. offers a competitive salary and generous benefits package including the following:
- Group health coverage (medical, dental, & vision)
- Employee Assistance Programs
- Pre-tax spending accounts
- 401(k) plan (with company match)
- Company provided life insurance
- Pet Insurance
- Employee discounts
- Generous paid holiday schedule, paid vacation & sick/personal days
LOCATION
Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions is a dynamic billion-dollar global company based in Research Triangle Park, NC, providing retail store solutions to your favorite brands. Have you ever been in a hurry and made use of the self-checkout at Lowe's Foods, earned fuel rewards at Kroger, or just paid for purchases at retailers such as Walmart, Michaels, Carrefour, The Gap, Calvin Klein, Boots, Cencosud, BJ's, or Costco? These are just a few examples of our in-store solutions and impressive customer base that made us the world's installed market share leader. The nature of retail is changing quickly, so if you share our 'Together Commerce' vision of a seamless two-way, participatory shopping experience, let's get together to drive the new economy.
EEO
Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer that evaluates qualified applicants without regard to age, ancestry, color, religious creed, disability, marital status, medical condition, genetic information, military or veteran status, national origin, race, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression and sexual orientation or any other protected factor. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Individuals who need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process should email benefits@toshibagcs.com to request an accommodation.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
We at Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions firmly believe that our people are an integral part to the success of our customers. Furthermore, we're committed to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for all our people as highlighted by our 5 Core Principles (Create Outreach, Foster Belonging, Unleash Opportunity, Diverse Cultural Engagement and Culture of Transparency). We're passionate about our customers the retail industry and becoming a more responsible company as we help create a brighter future.
INTRODUCTION
Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions is seeking a Senior Software Architect to lead end-to-end solution delivery, combining platform development, client engagement, and partner integrations for major retail platform. This role unifies architecture leadership (design, trade-offs, governance), platform building (infrastructure, core capabilities), client solution delivery (discovery, implementation, support), and AI-enabled acceleration to ensure high-quality, scalable, and future-ready solutions. You will own the complete architecture lifecycle — from discovery and design to delivery and operational readiness — guiding both the Discovery Track (rapid prototyping, feasibility validation, client alignment) and the Delivery Track (production implementation, measurable outcomes) while building the underlying platform capabilities that enable future solutions. The ideal candidate blends deep architecture expertise, software development, client engagement skills, integration experience, and practical use of AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery while maintaining architectural integrity and operational excellence.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Key Focus Areas
Platform Infrastructure & Core Capabilities
- Design and implement scalable platform infrastructure to support emerging use cases and product evolution.
- Build and evolve core platform capabilities — APIs, microservices, data pipelines, and shared services.
- Define architecture patterns and frameworks that enable rapid feature development and platform extensibility.
- Lead technical design for new product capabilities as business requirements evolve.
Client Engagement & Solution Delivery
- Own end-to-end solution delivery for client projects, converting business needs into validated architectures and working implementations.
- Lead client-facing architecture activities: facilitate workshops, present technical solutions, drive approvals, and act as subject-matter expert.
- Translate discovery outcomes into structured delivery backlogs that preserve design intent and architecture standards.
- Ensure traceability from business requirements to implemented solutions with full operational accountability.
Product & Partner Integration Architecture
- Own integration architecture design across partner ecosystems — payments, loyalty, inventory, and cloud services.
- Define and enforce integration patterns, API contracts, and data models ensuring interoperability and scalability.
- Establish and maintain partner integration architectures, including authentication, error handling, and versioning strategies.
- Govern solution design and trade-offs with a focus on performance, security, and operational resilience.
Dual-Track Delivery Leadership
- Lead Discovery and Delivery Tracks within Dual-Track Agile — from exploratory prototypes to validated production implementations.
- Drive Discovery Track activities: rapid prototyping, feasibility validation, and stakeholder alignment before full implementation.
- Translate discovery outcomes into delivery backlogs while maintaining architecture quality and non-functional requirements.
- Ensure seamless transition from discovery to delivery with clear design intent and technical specifications.
Hands-On Technical Contribution
- Build production-quality implementations of critical platform components, client solutions, and new infrastructure.
- Lead by example through active coding, prototyping, and technical problem-solving.
- Implement and demo reference code or critical components for both platform capabilities and client solutions.
- Participate in code reviews and hands-on delivery of complex features.
- Work primarily with cloud-native stacks (Java/Spring Boot, TypeScript, React/Vue, Docker/Kubernetes).
Governance, Mentorship & Continuous Improvement
- Define and uphold architecture standards, reusable patterns, and non-functional requirements (security, scalability, observability).
- Mentor engineers and junior architects on design practices, infrastructure patterns, and AI-assisted development.
- Conduct code reviews and enforce architecture governance, promoting best practices across teams.
- Contribute to platform strategy — identifying reusable assets, shared APIs, and infrastructure opportunities.
Key Responsibilities
Architecture & Design
- Lead end-to-end solution architecture across discovery, design, delivery, and operational readiness for both platform and client solutions.
- Design and build new platform infrastructure to support emerging product requirements and use cases.
- Produce and maintain key architectural artifacts: ADRs, interface contracts, data flow diagrams, infrastructure specs, sequencing diagrams, migration/rollback plans, and traceability matrices.
- Define and enforce architecture standards, integration patterns, and non-functional requirements across all solutions.
Platform Development
- Write production code for critical platform features and infrastructure components.
- Build core platform capabilities that enable rapid feature development and solution delivery.
- Establish reusable patterns, shared services, and API-first designs for platform extensibility.
- Serve as active technical lead in client engagements.
- Lead Discovery Track activities.
- Drive approvals and alignment across business and technical stakeholders.
Integration & Partnerships
- Establish and maintain partner integration architectures across third-party ecosystems.
- Govern architecture consistency across partner integrations and internal product lines.
- Define authentication strategies (OAuth, SAML, API keys), error handling, and API versioning.
Quality & Governance
- Ensure architecture quality gates and participate in design reviews and release sign-offs.
- Identify and mitigate architecture risks — compatibility, data integrity, scalability, and partner dependencies.
- Own risk analysis and mitigation for architecture decisions, including backward compatibility and compliance constraints.
Continuous Improvement
- Contribute to continuous improvement through reusable patterns, automation, and cross-team alignment.
- Mentor and upskill engineers and architects on AI-assisted development, Dual-Track workflows, and platform best practices.
- Contribute to platform and portfolio strategy, identifying gaps requiring investment and reusable assets.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
Must-Have
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- 8 years of professional software development experience, including recent hands-on coding and prototyping in modern technology stacks.
- 5+ years designing cloud-native, microservices, or event-driven architectures (Azure or equivalent cloud platforms).
- Strong experience building platform infrastructure and scalable backend systems.
- Proven experience owning end-to-end solution delivery, including design, implementation, and post-release operational accountability for medium-to-large projects.
- Experience with partner integrations — payments, SaaS APIs, loyalty, inventory, or authentication providers.
- Hands-on experience building prototypes or reference implementations to validate architecture and solution feasibility.
- Expertise in API-first design (REST/OpenAPI).
- Experience with relational/non-relational databases (SQL/NoSQL).
- Solid grasp of containerization, CI/CD, and Kubernetes-based delivery pipelines.
- Practical experience with generative AI and AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor).
- Excellent stakeholder communication skills, able to facilitate workshops, present technical solutions, and collaborate across business and engineering teams.
- Proven leadership in mentoring engineers, conducting code reviews, and enforcing architecture governance.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Strong retail platform domain knowledge (POS systems, store operations, payment processing).
- Certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect, AWS Solutions Architect, or equivalent.
- Experience with API Gateway or Integration Platforms (Azure APIM, Kong, Apigee, MuleSoft, Boomi).
- Solid understanding of API security and compliance (OAuth 2.0/OIDC, JWT, PCI).
- Familiarity with formal specifications (OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, JSON Schema) for contract-driven development.
- Background in distributed systems, microservices architecture, and infrastructure as code.
- Experience leading Dual-Track Agile processes, managing both Discovery and Delivery Tracks, and translating discovery outcomes into actionable backlog items.
- Experience contributing to platform strategy, reusable assets, and API-first designs.
COMPENSATION
Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions, Inc. offers a competitive salary and generous benefits package including the following:
- Group health coverage (medical, dental, & vision)
- Employee Assistance Programs
- Pre-tax spending accounts
- 401(k) plan (with company match)
- Company provided life insurance
- Pet Insurance
- Employee discounts
- Generous paid holiday schedule, paid vacation & sick/personal days
LOCATION
Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions is a dynamic billion-dollar global company based in Research Triangle Park, NC, providing retail store solutions to your favorite brands. Have you ever been in a hurry and made use of the self-checkout at Lowe's Foods, earned fuel rewards at Kroger, or just paid for purchases at retailers such as Walmart, Michaels, Carrefour, The Gap, Calvin Klein, Boots, Cencosud, BJ's, or Costco? These are just a few examples of our in-store solutions and impressive customer base that made us the world's installed market share leader. The nature of retail is changing quickly, so if you share our 'Together Commerce' vision of a seamless two-way, participatory shopping experience, let's get together to drive the new economy.
EEO
Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer that evaluates qualified applicants without regard to age, ancestry, color, religious creed, disability, marital status, medical condition, genetic information, military or veteran status, national origin, race, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression and sexual orientation or any other protected factor. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Individuals who need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process should email benefits@toshibagcs.com to request an accommodation.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
We at Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions firmly believe that our people are an integral part to the success of our customers. Furthermore, we're committed to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for all our people as highlighted by our 5 Core Principles (Create Outreach, Foster Belonging, Unleash Opportunity, Diverse Cultural Engagement and Culture of Transparency). We're passionate about our customers the retail industry and becoming a more responsible company as we help create a brighter future.
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Senior Level Software Architect Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a senior level software architect job?
Employers at this level look for demonstrated ownership of end-to-end architecture decisions, not just participation in them. Strong candidates can point to systems they designed from requirements through production, articulate tradeoffs clearly, and show they have guided other engineers through complex technical problems. Certifications in cloud platforms or enterprise architecture frameworks strengthen an application, but a portfolio of real architectural outcomes carries more weight.
Which companies hire senior level software architects?
Companies hiring senior level software architects right now include loanDepot, NVIDIA, and Komatsu, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Hiring at this level comes from a wide range of employers, including large technology firms, financial institutions, healthcare systems, and consulting companies with dedicated engineering practices.
Are there remote senior level software architect jobs?
Yes, and the share is meaningful. About 46% of senior level software architect openings are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting how many organizations have normalized distributed engineering leadership. Remote roles at this level typically still involve regular collaboration with product, engineering, and executive stakeholders, so strong async communication skills matter alongside technical depth.
What makes a software architect role senior level?
Senior level software architect roles are defined by scope and accountability rather than task execution. You own the architectural vision for a product or platform, make binding technology decisions, and are accountable for long-term outcomes like scalability, reliability, and maintainability. You also mentor engineers, lead technical reviews, and often serve as the primary technical voice in cross-functional conversations with product and business leadership.
Which industries hire the most senior level software architects?
Senior Level software architect roles concentrate in Technology & Software, Electronics & Hardware, and Fintech, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These sectors drive demand because they operate complex, high-availability systems where architectural decisions carry significant business risk and require experienced professionals who can design for both current needs and future growth.