Lead Technology Architect

About Us

We are a leading Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Dealer Management (DMS)[JS1] software and solutions provider to heavy equipment, agriculture, and construction companies. We aim to be the thought leader in the industries we serve and a trusted IT advisor to all our clients. Today, we have over 700 employee associates, offices on four continents, and customers in over 20 countries. We are privately held, and our headquarters are in beautiful Cary, NC. We seek talented individuals to join our team and help us aggressively grow our North American footprint for our cloud based DMS.

Role Summary

We are seeking a highly experienced and visionary Lead Architect to define and drive the architectural strategy across our enterprise software platforms. This role demands a unique blend of strategic thinking and hands-on leadership, shaping the future of our product ecosystem while collaborating closely with Engineering, Product, and DevOps teams.

This is an individual contributor role with high influence and dotted-line mentoring responsibility over architects across all Engineering teams. You will report directly to the CTO and play a pivotal role in ensuring technical excellence, scalability, and innovation across platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Define, articulate, and evolve architectural strategies that ensure scalability, performance, security, and long-term maintainability.
• Lead and guide end-to-end solution design efforts across products, platforms, and integrations.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Engineering, Product Management, DevOps, and Business stakeholders to ensure alignment of architecture with business and customer needs.
• Evaluate and recommend appropriate architectural frameworks, design patterns, and emerging technologies.
• Lead technical governance, including architecture reviews, risk assessments, performance audits, and cost-benefit analyses.
• Champion and mentor best practices among architects and senior engineers across teams.
• Promote cloud-native design principles and drive modernization of legacy systems.
• Ensure compliance with industry standards, security requirements, and regulatory norms.
• Spearhead research and development efforts for new tools, platforms, and methodologies.
• Optimize system performance and operational cost-efficiency.
• Stay ahead of trends in enterprise application architecture, cloud, AI, and data engineering.

Technical Skills & Expertise

Required Qualifications

Preferred Skills

Why work for VitalEdge?

We don’t just sell technology, we enable transformation that results in broader societal benefits like feeding the world, building homes and critical infrastructure, and delivering all sorts of products we all rely on for daily life. We exist to ultimately equip the world to keep running. We have more than 60 years of combined experience and two industry-leading software suites and associated apps, with which we will drive the market forward. It’s an exciting time to work for VitalEdge – join us!