Software Architect

Aspen Technology, Inc.
United States, Texas, Houston
2500 CityWest Boulevard (Show on map)
Feb 11, 2025
The driving force behind our success has always been the people of AspenTech. What drives us, is our aspiration, our desire and ambition to keep pushing the envelope, overcoming any hurdle, challenging the status quo to continually find a better way. You will experience these qualities of passion, pride and aspiration in many ways - from a rich set of career development programs to support of community service projects to social events that foster fun and relationship building across our global community. The RoleIn this role, you will help shape the architecture as AspenTech transitions to a platform delivery model for application enablement. This developing platform will facilitate shared capabilities across various business units to boost adoption, innovation, and development velocity. We are particularly looking for a lead architect to establish the architectural vision for Aspen Tech's Data Platform Services group. This group is tasked with connecting to operational technology (OT) systems to collect, aggregate, and service data for AspenTech's extensive range of industrial applications. This presents the unique challenge of addressing both on-premise and cloud deployment needs. All of this will be accomplished using the latest technologies in a dynamic and collaborative setting. Specific on-the-job training will be provided. Your Impact Work alongside an international team of talented people who are passionate about technology. Gain exposure to critical industries such as power generation and chemical engineering. Evaluate feasibility and develop approach for integrating new feature and product requests into a complex distributed system. Collaborate with other professionals to develop high-level product specifications and system architecture with attention to system integration, security, and reliability. Communicate system and software specifications to development team. Oversee progress of development team to ensure consistency with initial design and work with team to manage and communicate change. Provide technical guidance and coaching to developers and junior architects. What You'll Need Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or related technical field. Experience developing software in various software languages (C, C++ (preferred), C#, Java, JavaScript, etc.). 8+ years job experience in complex distributed system design and architecture. 3+ years job experience in cloud native architectures (AWS, Azure, GCP). Experience with inter-process communication, networking, and common networking protocols (TCP/IP, UDP, HTTP, SOAP, REST, DNP, etc.). Experience with MongoDB, Cassandra, Oracle, PostgreSQL or other databases. #LI-WJ1