Software Architect

Digital PlatformsUS Exempt RegularFull timeStateside Exempt 4.3Location: Adelphi, MD (Hybrid)

Summary:

The Software Architect is responsible for orchestrating a forward-looking technology plan for their assigned domains to provide market-competitive capability at optimal speed and/or total cost of ownership.  Works across the System affiliates to identify, integrate and implement technologies and solutions to motivate students and improve learning outcomes. 

The Software Architect is expected to develop deep market insight, performs competitive assessment, understands and informs business and technology strategy, defines the reference architecture and maintains a roadmap of capability and investment aligned to critical business needs and technology requirements.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Works with development and product team partners, ensures the technical integrity, scalability and high availability of the Ruby on Rails SaaS platform that powers the innovative learning experiences of tens of thousands of students.

• Owns the technical vision and implementation of the Online product roadmap, supporting everyday learning requirements as well as longer-term innovations in the student experience.

• Maintains world-class standards and processes to deliver consistent, high-quality learning experiences across dispersed, global teams, including the appropriate use of service benchmarking, performance analysis and capacity management.

• Oversees and recommends software tools to automate infrastructure and release management, including those needed for DevOps.

• Ensures modular software design with an emphasis on reuse and simplicity.

• Establish procedures and policy that will ensure sustainable deployment, monitoring, upgrade and expansion of services.

• Establishes procedures and policy to ensure sustainable deployment, monitoring, upgrade and expansion of services.

• Provides leadership and support in maintaining an agile, user-centered development process.

• Contributes to new product and feature ideation, prototyping, testing and, as appropriate, development and deployment.

Education & Experience Requirements:

Experience:

• At least 5 years in a hands-on experience, development-intensive individual contributor role, working with both low-level and high-level languages, which continues to inform your leadership working with development teams

• Strong knowledge/experience in the architecture and design of products with mobile/web optimized frontends, application logic, database, and other services using cloud infrastructure (mandatory)

• Prior success building a robust product platform that's service-oriented infrastructure and API driven; deep experience with Salesforce a plus

• Supported collaboration across and within teams through tools like Slack and dashboards

• Ensured quality across the full stack of your products and platform via rigorous automated testing (unit, functional, integration), using continuous integration to ensure full visibility of quality metrics to dev teams and product owners

• Good business acumen and communication skills to work with executives and stakeholders across your company, including product management, sales, finance, and support

Preferred Experience Requirements:

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree

All submissions should include a cover letter and resume.

The University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC) is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal and state laws regarding nondiscrimination. UMGC is committed to a policy of equal opportunity for all persons and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, disability, religion, ancestry, political affiliation or veteran status in employment, educational programs and activities, and admissions.

Workplace Accommodations:

The University of Maryland Global Campus Global Campus (UMGC) is committed to creating and maintaining a welcoming and inclusive working environment for people of all abilities. UMGC is dedicated to the principle that no qualified individual with a disability shall, based on disability, be excluded from participation in or be denied the benefits of the services, programs, or activities of the University, or be subjected to discrimination. For information about UMGC's Reasonable Workplace Accommodation Policy or to request an accommodation, applicants/candidates can contact Employee Accommodations via email at employee-accommodations@umgc.edu. 

Benefits Package Highlights:

• Generous Time Off: Enjoy 22 days of paid vacation, 15 days of sick leave, 3 personal days, and 15 paid holidays (16 during general election years). For part-time employees, time off rates will be prorated based on the number of hours worked.
• Comprehensive Health Coverage: Access to health care, medical with vision, dental, and prescription plans for both individuals and families, effective from the 1st of the month following your hire date.
• Insurance Options: Term Life Insurance, Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance, and Long-Term Disability (LTD) Insurance. Part-time employees working less than 0.5 FTE are not eligible for LTD.
• Flexible Spending Accounts: Available for medical and dependent care expenses.
• Retirement Plans: Choose between the Optional Retirement Program (ORP) or the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System (MSRPS).
• Supplemental Retirement Plans: include 401(k), 403(b), 457(b), and various Roth options. The university does not provide matching funds.
• Tuition Remission: Immediate availability for Regular Exempt Staff. Spouses and dependent children are eligible for undergraduate tuition remission after two years of service. NOTE: For part-time employees (at least 50 percent of the time), tuition remission benefits are prorated.

Hiring Range:

$157,000.00 - $193,100.00