At PDI Technologies, we empower some of the world's leading convenience retail and petroleum brands with cutting-edge technology solutions that drive growth and operational efficiency. By “Connecting Convenience” across the globe, we empower businesses to increase productivity, make more informed decisions, and engage faster with customers through loyalty programs, shopper insights, and unmatched real-time market intelligence via mobile applications, such as GasBuddy.  We’re a global team committed to excellence, collaboration, and driving real impact. Explore our opportunities and become part of a company that values diversity, integrity, and growth. Role Overview As an Enterprise Architect you will be responsible for the very foundations of software products offered by PDI. You will play a key role in designing and building a cloud platform which serves as a base for products' microservices and encapsulates all cross-cutting concerns as well as promotes best architectural practices. As the PDI software base grows in diversity and complexity, your role will be to enable product teams to utilize the cloud platform to achieve horizontal scalability, resiliency, seamlessly integrate with identity management platform and much more. You need to be able to adapt and learn very quickly on a continuous basis. Successful architects are also excellent communicators. You will be working hand in hand with Senior Engineers, Developers, DevOps Engineers, Managers and other stakeholders to ensure platform adoption and discover and fulfill business needs.  You will be actively involved in coaching and evangelizing developer teams on how to use the platform as well as adding new functionality based on developer feedback and requirements. Key Responsibilities

Evangelize the PDI cloud maturity strategy across the product teams and identify opportunities for improving existing hybrid cloud software solutions

Proactively assist product engineering technical leaders in identifying cloud maturity acceleration opportunities and helping them construct their technical roadmaps

Be a catalyst for cloud platform adoption by raising awareness of the platform, communicating its business & engineering benefits and get the global product teams excited about it

Be well versed in the cost benefits & value of cloud maturity and adoption to be able to effectively communicate with both business & technical stakeholders

Design, implement, improve and support software architecture solutions to serve business goals

Provide architectural guidance and design leadership to our global product engineering teams.

Research, evaluate and recommend tools, technologies and software processes to improve quality and productivity of software solutions.

Qualifications

5+ years as a Software Architect for on-premise and cloud applications, with 5-9 years in software development

Expertise in scalable, redundant enterprise architecture and enterprise integration patterns

Proficient in SPA frameworks: Angular (preferred), React, Vue

Strong programming skills in C# (preferred), Java, Go, C++, Rust

Experience with SQL RDBMS administration & scripting (DDL, DML)

Hands-on with cloud platforms: AWS (preferred), Azure, Google Cloud

Deep knowledge of microservices, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and serverless computing

Familiar with API Gateways: AWS (preferred), Apigee

Proficiency in messaging frameworks: Kafka (preferred)

Strong understanding of networking, security, and identity management (Okta preferred)

Experience with DevOps practices: CI/CD pipelines, Jenkins, observability tools

Skilled in Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansible, SaltStack

Experience with native mobile development: .NET Maui (preferred), Xamarin, NativeScript, Cordova

Strong communicator, able to translate technical concepts for non-technical audiences

Self-motivated problem-solver with a collaborative mindset and ability to work under pressure

Preferred Qualifications

Angular, C#, and AWS as preferred technologies 

Experience with .NET Maui, Xamarin, NativeScript, or Cordova for native mobile development

Strong grasp of UML and architecture diagramming