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(NYSE: AYI) is a market-leading industrial technology company. We use technology to solve problems in spaces, light and more things to come. Through our two business segments, Acuity Brands Lighting (ABL) and Acuity Intelligent Spaces (AIS), we design, manufacture, and bring to market products and services that make a valuable difference in people’s lives.\nWe achieve growth through the development of innovative new products and services, including lighting, lighting controls, building management solutions, and an audio, video and control platform. We focus on customer outcomes and drive growth and productivity to increase market share and deliver superior returns. We look to aggressively deploy capital to grow the business and to enter attractive new verticals.\nAcuity Inc. is based in Atlanta, Georgia, with operations across North America, Europe and Asia. The Company is powered by approximately 13,000 dedicated and talented associates. Visit us at www.acuityinc.com.\nJob Summary\nThe Software Architect for the Acuity Product Data Management (PDM) system is responsible for defining and maintaining the technical architecture, engineering standards, and technology roadmap for one of Acuity's most critical enterprise platforms. PDM manages product series, option groups, attributes, assets, pricing, validation, and ordering information consumed by commerce, quoting, ordering, manufacturing, and downstream enterprise systems.\nThis role combines deep technical leadership with hands-on architecture and coding, solution design, modernization planning, and engineering governance. The architect partners with Product Management, Engineering, Enterprise Architecture, DevOps, Security, Data, and business stakeholders to ensure solutions are scalable, secure, maintainable, and aligned to business objectives.\nKey Tasks & Responsibilities (Essential Functions)\nEnterprise System Design: Architect end-to-end distributed systems with a focus on scalability, high availability, fault tolerance, and loose coupling across complex enterprise platforms.\nCloud Architecture: Design and optimize multi-tier cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP), apply cloud-native patterns, infrastructure-as-code (IaC), and cost-effective resource management.\nAPI & Integration Strategy: Define standards for API design, lifecycle management, and service integration (REST, GraphQL, gRPC), ensuring robust contracts, backward compatibility, and developer ergonomics.\nMulti-Language Fluency: Leverage deep hands-on expertise in core enterprise programming ecosystems, principally Python, C# (.NET), and Java, to guide language-appropriate architectural decisions and evaluate technical trade-offs.\nSoftware Craftsmanship & Design Patterns: Champion clean architecture, domain-driven design (DDD), and classic design patterns to ensure codebases remain maintainable, testable, and modular over time.\nData Architecture & Modeling: Lead database topology decisions across relational engines (SQL) and NoSQL stores (document, key-value, graph, and wide-column), balancing data consistency models, read/write performance, and long-term storage strategies.\nEvent-Driven Architectures: Architect asynchronous, event-driven platforms utilizing messaging systems and streaming fabrics (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ, event brokers) to support decoupled, reactive workflows.\nDevOps & Continuous Delivery: Collaborate closely with platform engineering to embed modern CI/CD automation, observability (metrics, logs, traces), automated testing, and secure deployment pipelines across all architectural boundaries.\nInternal Developer Platforms (IDP): Drive the architecture and adoption of self-service internal developer platforms that standardize deployment patterns, accelerate developer velocity, and enforce architectural guardrails.\nAI Fluency & Emerging Technologies: Pragmatically evaluate and incorporate artificial intelligence, machine learning pipelines, and LLM integrations into core system architectures to modernize capabilities and improve operational efficiency.\nCross-Functional Influence & Alignment: Translate complex business objectives into pragmatic technical roadmaps, aligning engineering teams, product managers, and executive leadership behind unified architectural decisions.\nEngineering Mentorship & Talent Growth: Coach and mentor staff engineers, technical leads, and development teams, fostering a strong culture of continuous learning, system-level thinking, and modern software craftsmanship.\nStakeholder Translation & Executive Communication: Distill intricate distributed system concepts, platform constraints, and technology investments into clear, outcome-focused narratives tailored for senior and non-technical executives.\nSkills and Minimum Experience Required\nBachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or related discipline.\n8+ years of software engineering experience with significant architecture responsibility.\nStrong experience with enterprise application design.\nExperience defining architecture for large-scale business-critical applications.\nStrong understanding of distributed systems, integration patterns, event-driven architectures, and microservices concepts.\nExperience with Azure, CI/CD, DevOps, security, monitoring, and operational excellence.\nExperience working within Agile and SAFe delivery models.\nExcellent communication, stakeholder management, and technical leadership skills.\nPreferred Skills and Experience\nProficiency with AI-assisted software development practices.\nExperience with Product Data Management (PDM), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), or Product Information Management platforms.\nExperience in commerce, quoting, ordering, manufacturing, supply chain, or digital-product ecosystems.\nExperience with event streaming, API management, cloud-native architecture, and modernization programs.\nExperience leading architecture reviews, technical strategy, and portfolio-level technology decisions.\nTools & Technologies\nDevelopment: Multi-language fluency\nDelivery Approach: SAFe, Jira, Confluence, Miro\nCloud & DevOps: Multi-tier cloud environments, Azure DevOps, CI/CD, Observability\nIntegration: REST APIs, OpenAPI, Event-driven Architecture\nEnterprise Platforms: PLM, CPQ, Product Data Systems, CRM\nWe value diversity and are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regards to race, color, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity or national origin, disability, pregnancy, religion, covered veteran status, protected genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.\nPlease click here and here for more information.\nAccommodation in the Application Process: Acuity Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. It complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and other applicable laws requiring reasonable accommodation of persons with disabilities in employment. This includes the provision of reasonable accommodation in the application process. If you believe you need reasonable accommodation to assist with our online application system or any aspect of the application process, please contact Human Resources at (770) 922-9000, and select option 4. Please be prepared to identify the requisition / position applied for and the aspect of the application process for which you believe accommodation is needed. The company will engage in an interactive process with you to better understand the request and to determine whether reasonable accommodation is needed and available.\nAny unsolicited resumes sent to Acuity Inc. from a third party, such as an Agency recruiter, including unsolicited resumes sent to an Acuity Inc. mailing address, fax machine or email address, directly to Acuity Inc. employees, or to Acuity Inc. resume database will be considered Acuity Inc. property. Acuity Inc. will NOT pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume.\nAcuity Inc. will consider any candidate for whom an Agency has submitted an unsolicited resume to have been referred by the Agency free of any charges or fees. This includes any Agency that is an approved/engaged vendor, but does not have the appropriate approvals to be engaged on a search.\nE-Verify Participation Poster\ne-verify.gov\neeoc.gov\nProtecting Yourself from Recruitment Scams: Acuity is committed to maintaining the integrity of our Talent Acquisition process and the security of our candidates. We are aware of phishing and fraudulent schemes in which individuals impersonate Acuity representatives or recruiting partners to solicit payments or sensitive personal information.\nAs you navigate your job search, please keep the following in mind:\nNo Financial Requests: Acuity will never ask candidates for payment, credit card information, banking details or other financial information during the interview process.\nVerify Recruiter Communications: Legitimate communications from Acuity recruiters will come from an “@acuityinc.com” email address. 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