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Whether you’re already working as a Solution Architect or you’ve been a senior engineer or engineering lead making high-level design decisions, this role gives you the opportunity to influence architecture at scale and collaborate across the organization. We’re looking for strong architectural thinkers, regardless of title.You’ll partner with engineering, product, and business stakeholders to design secure, scalable, maintainable solutions that support our long term technology strategy. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex challenges, facilitating consensus, and setting architectural standards that help teams deliver their best work.\nESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.\nDrive Architecture Across Platforms\nContribute to the overall K12 architecture vision and strategy\nParticipate in the Architecture Council-present designs, review proposals, and help shape shared standards\nCollaborate with peers across platforms to evaluate and recommend architectural approaches\nOwn the technical direction for your platform\nWork with business stakeholders to understand functional needs, constraints, and objectives\nDefine an architectural vision that prioritizes security, performance, reliability, DevOps, monitoring, and long-term maintainability\nIdentify, prioritize, and address technical debt\nSupport estimation, planning, and business-case evaluation for major initiatives\nSupport and guide engineering teams\nPartner with Product, UX, and engineering to break large initiatives into thoughtfully sequenced roadmaps\nProvide ongoing architectural guidance during development to keep implementation aligned with strategy\nDocument architecture decisions, patterns, and strategy\nEnsure engineering teams understand how your platform integrates with the larger K12 ecosystem\nEncourage innovation through prototypes and exploration of new technologies\nSupervisory Responsibilities: This position initially has no formal supervisory responsibilities.\nCertificates and Licenses: None required.\nREQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:\nBachelor’s degree in computer science/engineering or equivalent experience\n8+ years of software engineering experience, including influence over multi-system architecture\n3+ years building solutions on AWS\nHands-on experience with multiple coding languages, UI frameworks and Database technologies\nFamiliarity with modern web technologies and open-source frameworks\nStrong problem-solving skills and the ability to analyze complex trade-offs\nExperience with large-scale, high-availability systems\nStrong communication skills and the ability to lead through influence\nUnderstanding of application, integration, SOA, and distributed architecture patterns\nAbility to create and maintain technical documentation\nBackground check clearance and up to 5% travel\nDESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:\nExperience building SaaS products\nExperience addressing cross-browser challenges\nWORK ENVIRONMENT: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.\nThis position is virtual and open to residents of the 50 states and Washington, D.C\nCompensation & Benefits: Stride, Inc. considers a person’s education, experience, and qualifications, as well as the position’s work location, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value when determining a new employee’s salary level. Salaries will differ based on these factors, the position’s level and expected contribution, and the employee’s benefits elections. Offers will typically be in the bottom half of the range.\nWe anticipate the salary range to be $81,045.75- $156,000.00. An individual’s compensation can vary based on several factors which include, but are not limited to, geographic location, experience, training, education, and local market conditions. Eligible employees may receive a bonus. Stride offers a robust benefits package for eligible employees that can include health benefits, retirement contributions, and paid time off.\nThe above job is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor.All employment is “at-will” as governed by the law of the state where the employee works. It is further understood that the “at-will” nature of employment is one aspect of employment that cannot be changed except in writing and signed by an authorized officer.\nJob Type\nRegularThe above job is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor. All employment is “at-will” as governed by the law of the state where the employee works. It is further understood that the “at-will” nature of employment is one aspect of employment that cannot be changed except in writing and signed by an authorized officer.\nIf you are a job seeker with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to apply for one of our jobs, you can request the appropriate accommodation by contacting .\nEqual Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities\nStride, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants receive consideration for employment based on merit without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state, or local law. Stride, Inc. complies with all legally required affirmative action obligations. 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