• Participate in client conversations from the second call forward — when opportunity scoping begins — to conduct deeper technical and business discovery alongside account management. • Lead the design of scalable, secure, and cost-effective architectures across cloud, AI/ML, data, security, and application modernization domains, leveraging industry best practices. • Work closely with clients to understand their business challenges, technical needs, and strategic goals, surfacing adjacent use cases and expansion opportunities that increase deal depth and pipeline value. • Guide cross-functional teams in shaping and validating proposed solutions, ensuring best practices in architecture, security, and delivery feasibility. • Partner with account management and sales leadership to shape pursuit strategies, define solution approaches, and contribute to proposals and technical presentations. • Assess existing client environments, identify areas for improvement, and recommend strategies that strengthen the business case and expand the engagement scope. • Ensure proposed solutions account for relevant security, compliance, and governance standards such as ISO 27001, NIST, and SOC 2. • Work closely with the Director of Cloud Services, delivery teams, talent operations, and strategic partners to drive successful outcomes across the full engagement lifecycle. • Stay current with technology trends, emerging platforms, and industry best practices to inform Toptal’s Technology Services strategy and strengthen client-facing credibility.

• Collaborating with the Account Executive to thoroughly understand the prospect's technical environment, Kubernetes challenges, cost optimization goals, and key business objectives through in-depth technical discovery sessions. • Owning and driving the technical validation and Proof of Concepts (POCs) specifically for PerfectScale. This includes meticulous POC preparation, proactive management, and ensuring successful technical outcomes, demonstrating clear value and alignment with prospect requirements. • Developing and delivering compelling and tailored PerfectScale platform demonstrations to prospects, effectively showcasing its capabilities and addressing their specific use cases and concerns. • Leveraging analytical skills and deep understanding of Kubernetes to develop compelling business cases and robust ROI analyses that clearly articulate the tangible value, cost savings, and performance improvements achievable with PerfectScale. • Becoming the go-to expert within the company for PerfectScale, ensuring prospects achieve optimal results and a seamless implementation experience. • Taking full ownership of the technical win for PerfectScale engagements, guiding prospects through the technical evaluation process, addressing all technical requirements, and building technical confidence in the solution. • Representing DoiT and PerfectScale at company events and industry conferences, delivering engaging presentations and demonstrations to a wider audience, showcasing our Kubernetes optimization expertise and platform capabilities. • Ensure timely entry of data into internal business support solutions. Contribute to systems and tools to provide key business information and metrics to highlight performance and effectiveness.

• Collaborating with the Account Executive to thoroughly understand the prospect's technical environment, Kubernetes challenges, cost optimization goals, and key business objectives through in-depth technical discovery sessions. • Owning and driving the technical validation and Proof of Concepts (POCs) specifically for PerfectScale. This includes meticulous POC preparation, proactive management, and ensuring successful technical outcomes, demonstrating clear value and alignment with prospect requirements. • Developing and delivering compelling and tailored PerfectScale platform demonstrations to prospects, effectively showcasing its capabilities and addressing their specific use cases and concerns. • Leveraging your analytical skills and deep understanding of Kubernetes to develop compelling business cases and robust ROI analyses that clearly articulate the tangible value, cost savings, and performance improvements achievable with PerfectScale. • Becoming the go-to expert within the company for PerfectScale, ensuring prospects achieve optimal results and a seamless implementation experience. • Taking full ownership of the technical win for PerfectScale engagements, guiding prospects through the technical evaluation process, addressing all technical requirements, and building technical confidence in the solution. • Representing DoiT and PerfectScale at company events and industry conferences, delivering engaging presentations and demonstrations to a wider audience, showcasing our Kubernetes optimization expertise and platform capabilities. • Ensure timely entry of data into internal business support solutions. Contribute to systems and tools to provide key business information and metrics to highlight performance and effectiveness.

Title: Systems Architect (AI & Cloud) Location: United States Remote Job Description: What We’re About At CentralSquare, we don’t just build software - we power public servants and uplift communities with Hero-Grade Technology. Every line of code, every feature we deliver helps heroes across North America protect, serve, and save lives. When you join us, you become part of a mission-driven team creating technology that makes communities safer and stronger. Your Growth Matters. We believe heroes deserve opportunities to rise. That’s why we invest in your career with mentorship, learning programs, and clear paths for advancement. If you’re motivated, there’s no limit to how far you can go. Your Commitment Deserves Reward. We offer competitive compensation and a benefits package designed to support your life inside and outside of work—tuition reimbursement, parental leave, paid volunteer hours, and unlimited PTO. Plus, our flexible work environment gives you the freedom to balance your heroic work with personal well-being, whether you’re in the office or remote. Join us and help build the tools that power real-life heroes. Together, we make a difference. The Opportunity We are looking for a Senior Architect who will define and drive how AI builds software across our platform — not just writing code with AI assistance, but designing the orchestration layers, agent pipelines, and spec-driven workflows that allow AI to produce production-quality output at scale. This is an architecture role where your technical depth in C#/.NET and cloud-native systems meets a hands-on obsession with AI-first engineering practices. You will serve as a technical leader and architect across multiple product teams, driving cloud-native modernization of multiple products. We need architects who can own the technical vision for that system and elevate every team’s ability to execute against it. What You’ll Do - Define and own the cloud-native architecture for C# services, APIs, and containerized workloads running on AWS EKS, including service decomposition, data access patterns, and cross-cutting concerns. - Lead monolith decomposition strategy — identifying bounded contexts, defining service boundaries, and creating incremental extraction plans that let teams carve out services from legacy systems without big-bang rewrites. - Architect the migration from legacy ASP.NET WebForms (.aspx) or other legacy UI systems to modern SPA frameworks (Angular or equivalent), defining the incremental migration path, component architecture, state management patterns, and coexistence strategy that lets teams move page by page without a full rewrite. - Drive OIDC modernization across products — migrating from legacy or inconsistent authentication patterns to standards-based OIDC flows - Architect event-driven and event-sourced systems, designing domain event contracts, message schemas, and replay/projection patterns that support offline capability, audit trails, and eventual consistency across distributed services. - Design and implement GraphQL APIs as a unified query layer across decomposed services, including schema federation, resolver architecture, and performance considerations like query complexity limits and dataloader patterns. - Design and evolve AI orchestration pipelines — multi-agent architectures, sub-agent delegation, spec-to-code-to-test workflows — that serve as the primary mechanism for code production across teams. - Prepare products for AI integration by designing MCP-ready architectures — exposing product capabilities as well-defined tool interfaces, structured context providers, and machine-consumable APIs that allow AI agents and third-party integrations to interact with our platform programmatically. - Establish the specification framework that feeds AI-driven development: what a spec must contain, how it maps to architecture context, data contracts, and behavioral validation, so that AI output is predictable and production-grade. - Drive legacy system refactoring strategy, making pragmatic decisions about what to rewrite, what to wrap, and what to strangle — balancing technical debt reduction against delivery velocity and risk. - Architect for resilience and scalability — circuit breakers, retry policies, graceful degradation, horizontal scaling patterns, backpressure handling, and health check architectures that keep systems stable under load and failure. - Define and enforce observability architecture — distributed tracing, structured logging, metrics, and DAU telemetry — as a first-class system concern, not an afterthought. - Integrate AI tooling (Claude, Copilot, custom agents) into development workflows, continuously raising the ceiling on what automated pipelines can reliably deliver. Skills & Requirements Required Qualifications - 10+ years of professional software development experience with C# and the .NET ecosystem, with at least 3 years operating in an architect across multiple teams or products. - Proven experience decomposing monolithic applications into distributed, cloud-native services — you have defined bounded contexts, drawn service boundaries, and shipped incremental extractions in production environments. - Deep experience with SQL databases such as PostgreSQL, including data modeling for distributed systems, query optimization at enterprise scale, and designing data ownership boundaries during service decomposition. - Strong AWS cloud architecture experience — you have designed and deployed production systems on AWS, making architectural decisions across compute, networking, storage, data, security, and cost management. You understand how to architect holistically on the platform. - Hands-on experience migrating legacy applications to modern SPA frameworks (Angular or equivalent), including defining coexistence strategies that allow incremental migration without halting delivery. - Experience working with legacy migration codebases at scale: you understand the patterns (strangler fig, branch by abstraction, parallel run) and the tradeoffs of translating large legacy systems to modern platforms without big-bang rewrites. - Strong command of observability architecture: OpenTelemetry or equivalent, structured logging, distributed tracing, metrics dashboards, and designing telemetry strategies that teams adopt as standard practice. - Experience designing for resilience and cost efficiency — you have implemented circuit breakers, retry policies, autoscaling configurations, and made architectural decisions that materially reduced cloud spend. - Strong background in event-driven architecture and event sourcing, including message broker selection, schema evolution, idempotency, and projection management. - Understanding of AI integration patterns and protocol-level interfaces like MCP — or equivalent experience making products programmable and accessible to external AI agents. - Strong understanding of containerization, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/CloudFormation), and CI/CD pipeline design.