• Guide overall solution strategy and lead architectural governance • Ensure delivery success by aligning client goals with Guidewire solutions • Act as a cross-functional thought partner with various stakeholders • Investigate and implement tools for managing configuration and requirements • Define requirements leveraging Guidewire Products to meet customer business objectives • Serve as a trusted advisor to client and leadership teams • Collaborate with Product, R&D, and Cloud teams to resolve product questions • Mentor junior Architects and contribute to internal standards

• Represents technology, strategy, and architecture in programs and initiatives. • Partners with business stakeholders to understand strategy and drivers, providing solutions architecture recommendations, design, and guidance. • Identifies gaps and opportunities for enhanced capabilities and automation frameworks. • Monitors technology trends to assess emerging impacts and deliver viable solutions. • Oversees the architecture guild. • Reviews and approves architecture analyses and designs to ensure fulfillment of requirements. • Leads technology product evaluation and selection to support strategic initiatives. • Initiates proofs of concept and builds prototypes to assess new solution approaches. • Assists in developing strategies for integration stacks, data architecture and data modeling, AI integration, and broad dependency identifications. • Manages a team of architects and engineers for shared applications and services. • Mentors and guides design, documentation of best practices, and architectural strategies. • Reviews and approves architecture analyses and designs to ensure fulfillment of requirements. • Leads integration projects advancing SaaS-to-SaaS capabilities. • Drives technology strategy, architecture, and design, leveraging AI for accelerated delivery. • Engages partners and vendors from research through service delivery. • Produces conceptual and logical architectures to meet strategic business and technology objectives through documentation of systems, architectures, process flows and value chains. • Manages tradeoffs between speed, quality, security, and financial impact. • Collaborates with development teams, leads meetings, and acts as a decision maker for technical solutions. • Owns solution evaluation and selection, including buy vs. build decisions, and early-phase project estimates within the solution development lifecycle which contribute to the technology needs and business case.

Risepoint is an education technology company that provides world-class support and trusted expertise to more than 100 universities and colleges. We primarily work with regional universities, helping them develop and grow their high-ROI, workforce-focused online degree programs in critical areas such as nursing, teaching, business, and public service. Risepoint is dedicated to increasing access to affordable education so that more students, especially working adults, can improve their careers and meet employer and community needs. At Risepoint, we are on a mission to redefine higher education for the modern world. We empower learners and partners by delivering transformative, scalable, and student-centric solutions. As we grow and evolve in becoming a tech-enabled higher education service company, we are committed to delivering an outstanding digital student journey grounded in care, simplicity, and real outcomes. We operate at speed, guided by our core values—Reliable, Empowered, Adaptable, Customer-Centric, and Heart (R.E.A.C.H)—and united by a belief in the power of impact-driven, collaborative leadership. Role Overview Risepoint is seeking an Enterprise Architect to define and drive enterprise technology architecture across platforms, integrations, data, and security. This role establishes architectural standards and reference designs that enable teams to deliver scalable, secure, resilient systems—while reducing complexity, improving interoperability, and accelerating delivery across the end-to-end online university program lifecycle (e.g., marketing, recruitment, admissions, onboarding, student support, academic progression). This is a hands-on architecture role: you will produce actionable designs, guide engineering teams through reviews and tradeoffs, and ensure solutions are buildable, operable, and aligned to enterprise principles. Key Responsibilities · Enterprise target architecture: Define and maintain current-state and target-state architectures across domains (application, integration, data, and security). Create roadmaps to modernize platforms and reduce technical debt. · Reference architectures & standards: Establish reusable patterns for microservices, APIs, event-driven systems, identity, and shared platform capabilities. Maintain architecture decision records (ADRs) and enforce guardrails via review processes. · Integration architecture: Define enterprise integration strategy (API gateway, event streaming, middleware, service-to-service auth). Drive standards for idempotency, traceability, data contracts, and schema evolution across systems. · Data & platform architecture alignment: Partner with data/platform teams to ensure consistent architecture for data flows, governance, quality, and lineage that supports enterprise reporting and operational needs. · Security-by-design: Embed security, privacy, and compliance controls into architecture (least privilege, encryption, secrets management, audit logging, retention). Partner with security on threat modeling and risk reviews. · Non-functional excellence: Define SLOs/SLIs, resilience patterns, observability requirements, and operational readiness criteria for production systems. · Architecture leadership: Lead design reviews, mentor engineers, and influence cross-functional stakeholders. Translate business goals into technical decisions with clear tradeoffs (time/cost/risk/quality). Qualifications · Strong Computer Science foundation and depth in distributed systems, networking, and modern software architecture. · Hands-on coding capability: ability to write production-quality code, build reference implementations, and perform high-signal code reviews (not “slideware-only” architecture). · 8+ years designing enterprise-scale systems (cloud-native architecture, APIs, microservices, event-driven patterns). · Proven experience defining and driving adoption of architecture standards and reference patterns across multiple delivery teams. · Strong experience with enterprise integration (API management, IAM, service-to-service auth, messaging/streaming, data contracts). · Strong experience with operability (observability, reliability engineering practices, incident readiness, performance and capacity considerations). · Excellent communication skills—able to align leaders and teams around technical direction and drive decisions through ambiguity. Preferred · Experience supporting complex ecosystems involving partner-integrated workflows and constraints (e.g., CRM/SIS/LMS-connected processes). · Experience building and governing enterprise architecture processes (architecture review boards, standards catalogs, reference architecture libraries). · Familiarity with integrations, APIs, middleware, and data pipelines in university ecosystems. Risepoint is an equal-opportunity employer and supports a diverse and inclusive workforce.

Company Overview: Macalogic is a company with broad competencies based on over a decade of experience working in the federal arena. We are a Woman-Owned SBA-certified Small Business and an Economically Disadvantaged Woman-Owned Small Business (EDWOSB). We provide business consulting services to government clients in five primary areas: software development and IT-related consulting; cyber security, program support; federal enterprise architecture; and compliance. In the commercial, Business-to-Business (B2B) arena, we provide management support services, including hardware, software, and network installation, troubleshooting, and management. Our core values of “Building Trust”, “Showing Up”, “Owning It”, “Getting Better”, and “Serving Others” are central to everything we do at Macalogic. We offer a generous benefits package and compensation commensurate with your experience and skill set. Technical Description: The successful candidate will perform systems analysis and design to improve integration, functionality, and performance of enterprise IT solutions for the Department of the Interior (DoI) Human Resources Directorate (HRD), Human Resources Systems Management Division (HRMSD). The candidate will create, modify, and support the evolution of systems and families of systems for the DoI. They will support API design, development, and integration, including assisting with the adoption of REST, SOAP, and secure data exchange protocols; support the use of tools such as the MuleSoft Anypoint Platform, Swagger, and Postman plus development environments including GitHub, PHP, Java, SQL, and Lucee ColdFusion; and analyze business data processing problems to develop and implement solutions for enterprise applications and system integration challenges. Duties and Responsibilities: The successful candidate will perform functional duties such as: - Perform systems integration functions across heterogeneous platforms, including legacy and cloud-based environments. - Identify and mitigate system performance bottlenecks and limitations. - Assist with the design of enterprise systems to ensure scalability, interoperability, and secure data flow between HRMSD and external systems. - Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business requirements into system specifications and architectural solutions. - Develop and implement enterprise-level strategies for software, hardware, and network optimization. - Evaluate and recommend software and COTS solutions, ensuring compatibility with HRMSD’s technical architecture. - Review and enhance system workflows, including automation and data exchange processes. Education Requirements: Bachelor's degree in Computer Software Engineering, Information Technology, or related field. Professional Certifications Required: None required Clearance Requirements: Currently possesses or can obtain a Public Trust position based on a favorable National Agency Check Investigation (NAC-I) Years of Experience Required: 8+ years of directly applicable experience performing software development Citizenship Requirements: Must be a US citizen Skills and Abilities: Must be a self-starter with strong attention to detail and problem-solving abilities; strong communication and interpersonal skills for stakeholder interaction; self-motivated with strong time management skills for sprint-based deliverables; adaptability to changing priorities and evolving government requirements; detail-oriented approach to code quality and security compliance; and strong written and oral communication skills with the ability to present clearly. Working conditions: Fully Remote Client duty hours (Monday through Friday). Salary: $110-$120k