United Educators

United Educators

Senior Application Architect

Bethesda, Maryland · Senior

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 22 days ago
C#.NETBackend DevelopmentSQLCloud PlatformsDevOpsAPI DevelopmentRESTMachine LearningData EngineeringAgile

About the role

  • ABOUT UE: United Educators (UE) is a liability insurance company that serves K-12 schools, colleges and universities across the United States.

Responsibilities

  • Own the end-to-end application architecture for key business systems, including domain modeling, application decomposition, service boundaries, and integration patterns.
  • Define and own UE's API strategy, including RESTful API design standards, documentation, versioning, lifecycle management, and governance.
  • Design and govern REST APIs and service contracts that enable reuse, scalability, and consistent integration across internal applications and external partners.
  • Strong hands-on experience in.NET, C#, ASP.NET, SQL Server, REST APIs, domain modeling, and database schema design for enterprise applications.
  • Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to translate strategic objectives and functional needs into application architecture, REST API designs, and implementation approaches.
  • Develop and maintain technical and business feature roadmaps in consultation with stakeholders
  • Lead the design and implementation of scalable, secure, and resilient enterprise application architectures, with a focus on maintainability, extensibility, and performance.
  • Define and enforce application architecture standards, design patterns, and coding guidelines to ensure consistency and interoperability across development teams.
  • Design and document software architectures using diagrams and models that guide development and support long-term system sustainability.
  • Review application and API implementations to ensure adherence to architectural intent, clean code principles, and design patterns.

Requirements

  • Typically requires 10+ years of experience in software design and development, including at least 5 years of architecting enterprise-level applications
  • Experience making architectural decisions across application layers, including UI, backend services, REST APIs, and data access
  • Working knowledge of cloud platforms and DevOps practices as they relate to application deployment and runtime concerns

Nice to have

  • advanced degree preferred
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field

Skills

  • United Educators (UE) is a liability insurance company that serves K-12 schools, colleges and universities across the United States.

Benefits

  • Partner with data engineering teams to design application-aligned data access patterns, pipelines, and governance supporting analytics and machine learning initiatives.
  • Mentor developers and other architects, fostering a culture of hands-on learning, strong design discipline, and technical excellence.

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