Role Description As an Architect I at AGDATA, your work directly helps enable the success of farmers and agribusinesses across North America. The systems you help design and evolve power the programs, insights, and services that support how food is grown, protected, and brought to market—making a real, tangible impact beyond the code you write. In this role, you’ll collaborate closely with senior architects, product owners, and engineering teams to build secure, scalable, and maintainable applications using modern .NET and cloud-native patterns. You’ll see how thoughtful application and data design translates into reliable data, trusted insights, and stronger relationships between AGDATA, our customers and partners, and the growers they serve. This is an individual contributor role designed for architects early in their journey. You’ll gain hands-on experience applying architectural principles in real product environments, contribute meaningful design input, and grow your influence over time—while learning how your work helps farmers make better decisions every day. Key Responsibilities - Architecture & Design - Contribute to the design of application components and services within AGDATA’s modern .NET ecosystem. - Assist with cloud-native design, including serverless workloads (e.g., Azure Functions) and containerized services, under the guidance of senior architects. - Help align application designs with broader solution architecture standards and reference architectures. - Produce concise architecture artifacts—diagrams, lightweight Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), and design notes—to facilitate shared understanding. - Participate in architecture and design reviews; capture feedback and incorporate improvements. - Engineering Enablement & Excellence - Collaborate with engineering teams to shape nonfunctional requirements (NFRs) such as performance, reliability, observability, security, and cost efficiency. - Apply secure design and development practices (identity and access, least privilege, common vulnerability awareness) and support threat modeling discussions. - Contribute to integration patterns, data flows, and cross-system interactions (REST and event-driven). - Participate in code reviews with a focus on maintainability, reliability, performance, scalability, and security. - Provide hands-on prototyping and coding for complex or high-impact technical problems. - Collaboration & Continuous Improvement - Work closely with product owners, engineering leads, developers, and DevOps to support iterative delivery and measurable outcomes. - Document patterns and practices; share learnings in brownbags, design sessions, or internal forums. - Adopt and encourage effective use of modern tooling (testing, CI/CD, observability, and documentation) to improve quality and speed. Qualifications - 8+ years of senior engineering or 3+ years of architecture experience. - Hands-on experience developing solutions with .NET 6+ (C#, ASP.NET Core, EF Core). - Working knowledge of modern frontend frameworks (e.g., React 17+). - Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tooling (e.g., GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps), container orchestration concepts (e.g., Kubernetes/AKS), and observability tooling. - Understanding of Clean Architecture, SOLID principles, feature-oriented / Vertical Slice Architecture, and Domain Driven Design (DDD) concepts. - Experience building REST APIs, microservices, and exposure to event-driven design. - Exposure to cloud-native development (e.g., Azure Functions or equivalent serverless, containerization). - Aware of secure software development practices (e.g., OWASP Top 10) and identity/access considerations. - Comfort working in Agile environments; strong collaboration and communication skills. - Ability to create clear technical documentation and diagrams using common modeling notations or tools. - Strong communication and collaboration skills with a focus on influence and inspiration. Preferred Qualifications - Experience with Microsoft Azure (or another major cloud platform) and familiarity with cloud architecture guidance (e.g., Azure Well-Architected Framework or equivalent). - Exposure to microservices patterns, API versioning, schema evolution, and event streaming (e.g., Kafka, Azure Event Hubs, Event Grid, or Service Bus). - Experience contributing to ADRs or similar design documentation, and interest in mentoring/knowledge sharing as you grow. - Exposure to designing or integrating with large-scale data and analytics platforms such as Databricks, Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, or Google BigQuery. - Experience using AI-assisted development tools to support design, coding, or documentation workflows. - Aware of OWASP Top 10 for LLM and GenAI. - Experience working in a product-driven organization focused on building commercial solutions supporting multiple large enterprise organizations. Benefits - You have the option to choose from four medical, two dental, and two vision plans to ensure your elections are the best fit for you and your family including your domestic partner and their child(ren). - You’ll have access to a Health Savings Account with employer contributions as well as Health and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts. - You can plan for the near and long term with AGDATA’s 401(k) retirement savings plan with matching company contributions and our tuition reimbursement program. - You’ll also get to enjoy access to ancillary benefits, Employee Assistance Programs including virtual counseling sessions, Pet Insurance, Ergonomic Assessments, and other discount programs that will help you and your family stay on track physically, socially, emotionally, and financially. - Paid time off is available to you and we also have competitive holiday options available including the week between Christmas and New Year’s. - You can work from home and partner with your manager to flex your hours. - Free snacks and different types of drinks will be available for you to choose from in our brand-new office space. - AGDATA invests heavily in our associates' training and development, ensuring your onboarding will be successful and also focuses on the continued development of your soft and hard skills. - You’ll have unparalleled visibility and communication with senior leadership across the organization. - Our Shout Out Program gives our associates the opportunity to give feedback at any time which will be shared and celebrated company-wide. - Our monthly in-person and virtual town halls led by our CEO and other Leaders guarantee everyone stays up-to-date.