Senior Software Architect

Job Title: Senior Software Architect

Location: Houston, TX or Boston, MA (Hybrid)

Reports To: Senior Manager, Product Development

 

A Quick Snapshot...

The Senior Software Architect is a highly influential technical leadership role within Conga's B2B Platform Engineering organization. This position is responsible for shaping the architectural vision, technical strategy, and long-term evolution of Conga's B2B Platform, including the platform capabilities that support Revenue Lifecycle Management (RLM) and Pricing Solutions.

As a Senior Software Architect, you will provide architectural leadership across multiple product, platform, and data initiatives, ensuring solutions align with enterprise architecture principles, business objectives, scalability requirements, and long-term platform strategy. You will serve as a trusted advisor to Engineering, Product, and Executive leadership while driving innovation, modernization, and technical excellence throughout the organization.

This role is ideal for experienced architects who possess deep technical expertise, a systems-thinking mindset, and a proven ability to influence engineering direction at scale.

Why It's a Big Deal...

• Define and drive the architectural vision, technology strategy, and roadmap for Conga's B2B Platform, shared services, and enterprise data capabilities.
• Lead the design and review of complex, business-critical systems and large-scale modernization efforts.
• Establish and champion enterprise architecture standards, governance processes, and engineering best practices.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Security, Operations, and Data leaders to align technology investments with business objectives.
• Drive architectural decisions that balance customer needs, business priorities, security, scalability, reliability, and operational excellence.
• Lead the architecture of enterprise data capabilities, ensuring effective ingestion, governance, access, integration, and reuse of business data across products and platform services.
• Evaluate and drive adoption of emerging technologies, frameworks, and architectural patterns that accelerate innovation and business outcomes.
• Mentor Architects, Principal Engineers, and technical leaders while fostering architectural excellence across engineering teams.
• Promote cloud-native, Azure-based, API-first, event-driven, and scalable architectural approaches across the product ecosystem.
• Serve as a key escalation point for complex technical challenges, architectural risks, and cross-functional dependencies.
• Partner with Executive leadership to identify and address technical debt, platform investment opportunities, and strategic technical initiatives.

Here's What We're Looking For...

• 12+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience in architecture leadership roles.
• Proven success defining and implementing architecture for large-scale enterprise SaaS platforms and distributed systems.
• Deep expertise in Java-based application development, cloud-native architectures, microservices, and modern software engineering practices.
• Strong understanding of enterprise integration patterns, API management, event-driven architectures, and platform engineering principles.
• Experience designing highly scalable, secure, resilient, and observable SaaS solutions serving enterprise customers.
• Hands-on expertise with public cloud platforms, preferably Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, and Infrastructure-as-Code practices.
• Strong experience working with relational and NoSQL databases, data modeling, and high-volume transaction systems.
• Experience designing platform capabilities for enterprise data management, including data ingestion, processing, storage, governance, access, and integration across distributed systems.
• Experience with modern data platforms and technologies used to manage enterprise data and business objects, such as Databricks, including their integration with operational applications and platform services.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technology strategy and influence architectural decisions across multiple teams and organizations.
• Proven ability to drive architectural governance while balancing pragmatism, speed, and innovation.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience mentoring architects, principal engineers, and senior technical contributors.

Why This Role Matters at Conga

• Directly shape the architecture, scalability, and long-term technology strategy of Conga's B2B Platform, which powers core business capabilities across multiple product lines.
• Influence architectural and technology decisions that enable platform-wide consistency, reuse, interoperability, and innovation.
• Lead the evolution of foundational platform services, enterprise data capabilities, and shared infrastructure that support Revenue Lifecycle Management (RLM), Pricing Solutions, and future platform investments.
• Drive scalability, reliability, security, observability, and operational excellence across the platform ecosystem.
• Enable engineering consistency and platform adoption through scalable architectural frameworks, standards, and governance practices.
• Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Data, and Executive leadership to align platform investments with strategic business objectives.
• Enable data-driven innovation by advancing enterprise data management capabilities, including data integration, governance, accessibility, and business object services.
• Help build and mentor the next generation of technical leaders, architects, and principal engineers across the organization.
• Serve as a strategic technology leader with broad influence on Conga's platform strategy, engineering maturity, and future growth.