Top Software Architect Jobs in Denver & Boulder, CO

As a Principal Architect, you'll design and execute technology projects, mentor team members, create solutions for clients, and support business development.

Define and lead end-to-end cloud application and platform architecture, ensuring scalability, security, reliability, and cost efficiency. Partner with engineering, security, data, and product teams to design shared platform capabilities, data and integration patterns, governance, observability, and migration/modernization roadmaps. Provide technical leadership and mentor engineers and SREs.

Lead software architecture and planning for a Java-based, large-scale missile defense planner. Maintain architecture artifacts, perform trade studies, oversee design and integration, quantify performance, implement cyber/IA requirements, automate installations, develop test plans and execute integration testing, and coordinate across engineering disciplines and customers. Requires secure clearances and on-site Colorado Springs presence.

Lead architecture and evolution of enterprise observability platforms (APM, infrastructure monitoring, session replay, log analytics). Define integration patterns, telemetry standards, and governance. Partner with Engineering, SRE, Product, and Infrastructure to embed observability best practices, evaluate new technologies (OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, AI-driven observability), drive platform standardization, and manage vendor relationships to improve MTTD/MTTR and system reliability.

The Lead Software Solutions Architect designs cloud-native solutions, guides technical decisions, mentors teams, and drives innovation while ensuring quality and scalability.

The Senior Software Architect will design and implement technical solutions, collaborate with stakeholders, lead development teams, assess technologies, and create POCs.