
Application Architect - .NET / Azure
RackspacePosted 5/20/2025

Application Architect - .NET / Azure
Rackspace
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Job Summary
We are seeking an Application Architect to design, automate, and deploy services on behalf of our customers to AWS in a way that allows these services to automatically heal themselves if things go south. The ideal candidate will have 8+ years of software development or application engineering experience with recent coding experience in two or more modern programming languages. They will work as a technical leader alongside customer business, development, and infrastructure teams, leading technical and design discussions with IT executives to help enterprises speed their adoption of new technologies and practices. The Application Architect will architect and build highly scalable, cloud-native applications on the AWS platform using core developer services such as API Gateway, Lambda, SQS, DynamoDB, and ECS. They will also leverage new technology paradigms (e.g., serverless, containers, microservices) and advise on implementing AWS best practices. The role requires 5+ years of experience as a technical specialist in Customer-facing roles, with experience with Agile development methodologies, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), and Cloud Certifications. The Application Architect will work remotely for 50% of the time, with one week onsite in Houston, TX and the other week fully remote. The role offers a competitive salary range of $143,700 - $245,520 per year, plus variable compensation in the form of bonus, commissions, or other discretionary payments.
Job Description
Key Responsibilities:
- Work as a technical leader alongside customer business, development, and infrastructure teams.
- Lead technical and design discussions with IT executives to help enterprises speed their adoption of new technologies and practices.
- Architect and build highly scalable, cloud-native applications on the AWS platform using core developer services such as: API Gateway, Lambda, SQS, DynamoDB and ECS.
- Leverage new technology paradigms (e.g., serverless, containers, microservices).
- Migrate monolithic applications to microservices architectures.
- Advise on implementing AWS best practices.
- Influence infrastructure architecture by sharing your application development expertise.
- Willingness to travel to client locations and deliver professional services.
Required Qualifications:
- BS level technical degree. Additional experience may substitute the for the degree.
- 8 + years of software development or application engineering with recent coding experience in two or more modern programing languages such as: Java, JavaScript, C/C++, C#, Swift, Node.js, Python, Go, or Ruby
- Hands-on recent development experience and capability. You will be expected to write and review code.
- 5+ years of experience as a technical specialist in Customer-facing roles.
- Experience with Agile development methodologies.
- Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD).
Preferred Qualifications:
- Cloud Certifications
- Demonstrated success as a software developer, application architect, product manager, CTO, or consultant working with various platforms.
- Architecting, designing and developing applications on the AWS platform.
- Designing and building application using Container and serverless technologies.
- Experience architecting highly available systems that utilize load balancing, horizontal scalability and high availability.
- Good exposure to Agile software development and DevOps practices such as Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Continuous Integration and automated deployment.
- Continuous Integration (CI) tools (e.g. Jenkins).
- Experience with configuration management platforms (e.g. Chef, Puppet, Salt, or Ansible).
- Strong practical application development experience on Linux and Windows-based systems.
- Presenting at public events such as technology conferences, hackathons, blogging, writing on technical forums, etc.
- Experience working directly with customers, partners or third-party developers.