Software Architect - .NET / Azure

Location / Remote: Hybrid in Cleveland, OH, 44143 (1 day per week onsite).

Employment Type: 6-month W-2 contract (possibility to extend for multiple years)

Compensation: up to 100/hour W-2 (depending on experience).

Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, LTD/STD, HSA/FSA, term life, and supplemental health insurances (e.g., Aflac) for all employees (and their families if needed).

This senior, hands-on Software Architect role focuses on building and stabilizing cloud integration services on the Microsoft stack. You will design integration patterns, write and ship production C#/.NET code, and improve reliability of event-driven and API-based workflows on Azure. Success is measured by integration pipelines that are resilient, observable, and easier to operate, with clear architecture decisions that teams can execute.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement enterprise integration architectures using REST APIs, microservices, asynchronous messaging, and event-driven patterns.
• Build and maintain production services in C#/.NET/.NET Core, including core integration components and shared libraries.
• Develop and operate Azure-based integration solutions using Azure Functions, Service Bus, and API Management to support secure, scalable connectivity.
• Diagnose and resolve failures in production integration pipelines, driving issues from detection through root-cause analysis and permanent corrective action.
• Define reliability patterns such as idempotency, retries, dead-letter handling, message validation, and back-pressure to reduce incidents and data inconsistencies.
• Establish observability standards across integrations, including structured logging, correlation IDs, metrics, alerts, and actionable telemetry dashboards.
• Review and guide technical designs and code changes to ensure performance, maintainability, and alignment with integration architecture standards.
• Partner with engineering stakeholders to plan and deliver integration enhancements, balancing near-term stabilization with longer-term modernization.

Required Skills:

• 8 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience with significant recent production development in C#/.NET/.NET Core, including writing and supporting production code.
• Hands-on experience implementing Azure integrations using Azure Functions, Azure Service Bus, and Azure API Management.
• Strong background in enterprise integration architecture across REST APIs, microservices, asynchronous messaging, event-driven architecture, and distributed systems.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with SQL and data transformation concepts to support integration mapping, validation, and reconciliation workflows.
• Familiarity with CI/CD and DevOps practices, including build/release automation and environment promotion for integration services.
• Experience using AI-assisted engineering tools to speed up development, debugging, test generation, or operational automation.
• Demonstrated track record stabilizing failing or unstable production integration pipelines through systematic troubleshooting and remediation.
• Deep operability expertise, including idempotency, retries, validation, failure handling, observability, logging/telemetry, and root-cause analysis practices.