Chief Architect

BigTime is looking for an experienced Chief Architect to join our team! This is a fantastic opportunity to join a high-growth SaaS company! This is an exciting opportunity to work side-by-side with a team of talented individuals. Our goal is to be the leading AI-powered platform guiding Professional Services organizations to excel in delivery, resource, and financial management and grow profitably. The right candidate will be passionate about development and able to solve difficult technical problems in a fast-paced, agile environment.
Who we are
BigTime is an AI-powered professional services platform helping firms make smarter decisions and drive profitable growth. We've been featured on Inc.'s 500 Fastest Growing Companies four years running and named one of Crain's Best Places to Work three years in a row. Our flagship SaaS platform powers 2,700+ consulting firms worldwide and tracks over $4B in billable time annually. Our mission is to be the leading AI-driven platform for delivery, resource, and financial management.
What you'll be doing
We're hiring a Software Architect to collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to design, build, and test features in our award-winning, cloud-based system. You will pick up and elevate an existing modernization blueprint, guiding it from design to reality while thoughtfully expanding its scope. Core objectives in this role are the unifying of data and domains, rationalizing services and APIs, and driving a consistent, seamless user experience across legacy and acquired systems-without losing delivery velocity. Success looks like clear boundaries, reliable migration paths, strong security and observability, and an architecture that lets teams ship faster with confidence.
Who you are

• 10-15 years building and evolving large-scale systems on modern stacks
• Strong experience with several languages and application frameworks; comfortable shaping backend contracts and services
• Deep database design with SQL Server; exposure to NoSQL and event streaming is a plus
• Proven in platform modernization: decomposing legacy systems, defining migration paths, and delivering incrementally with zero/low downtime
• Hands-on performance, scalability, security, and cost optimization in cloud environments (Azure/AWS), including CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code
• Strong grasp of software design patterns, domain-driven design, and API/versioning strategy (REST/gRPC; backward compatibility)
• Expert-level front-end experience (React + ecosystem) and patterns for shared UI components/design systems that unify products
• Experience integrating acquisitions: data/model reconciliation, identity/SSO (SAML/OIDC/SCIM), authorization, and cross-product navigation for a seamless UX
• Skilled in data integration and migration (ETL/CDC), observability (metrics, logs, tracing), and error budgets/SLOs
• Effective communicator and collaborator with Product, Security, and GTM; able to mentor engineers and lead cross-team delivery
• Bias to simplicity: remove tech debt, standardize platforms, and document decision records (ADRs) and guardrails

What you'll do

• Own and execute the modernization roadmap: turn the existing blueprint into phased migration plans with low/zero-downtime rollouts and clear milestones/SLOs.
• Integrate acquired products into a unified platform and UX by aligning data models/APIs, standardizing identity/SSO, and rationalizing services.
• Establish architectural guardrails (domain boundaries, API/versioning, deprecation strategy) and create clear "golden paths."
• Elevate operability with end-to-end observability, performance/capacity planning, and incident-ready runbooks guided by error budgets.
• Partner with Product and Platform/DevOps to sequence work, manage risk, and speed delivery through CI/CD and automated regression (shorter code freeze).

The salary for this position is between $160,000 - $190,000.00 annually. In addition to base salary and a competitive benefits package, this position may be eligible for additional types of compensation such a bonuses.
Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. BigTime Software, Inc. is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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