Fast Facts

Join Ascend Learning as a Solution Architect, where you will leverage your expertise in software architecture and design to implement innovative IS and credentialing systems in a collaborative, people-first culture.

Responsibilities: Provide technical leadership, design systems architecture, manage the software development lifecycle, and advocate for DevOps practices while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Skills: Strong background in software architecture with .Net applications, excellent documentation skills, collaboration capabilities, and an understanding of microservice architecture is a plus.

Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Information Systems or related field, 4+ years of software architecture experience, and ability to adapt to changing environments.

Location: This position is hybrid, based in Leawood, KS.

Compensation: Not provided by employer. Typical compensation ranges for this position are between $110,000 - $150,000.

We Impact Lives Through Purpose-Driven Work in A People First Culture

Ascend Learning is the connection between a powerful portfolio of brands serving students, educators, and employers with outcomes-based, data driven solutions across the lifecycle of learning.

Our values-driven culture unifies our teams and inspires a mindset of action, innovation, and collaboration, with a relentless focus on customers.

We're always looking for talented, passionate professionals to join us in our mission to help change lives. If this sounds like an environment where you'd thrive, read on to learn more.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

As a self-driven Solution Architect, you will align business processes, implement, and architect IS and credentialing software. You will be an individual contributor working closely with cross functional teams and collaborating with engineers and enterprise architects to develop standard platforms across multiple business units. You will also take leadership for key initiatives and produce conceptual and logical architectures to meet strategic business, financial and technology objectives through prototyping concepts, documentation of systems, architecture and business process flows.

WHERE YOU’LL WORK

This position will work a hybrid schedule from our Leawood, KS office.

HOW YOU’LL SPEND YOUR TIME

• Provide technical leadership through architecture discussions, documentation, technical design, performing code reviews, providing guidance on building reusable components, and designing integrations
• Understand the business process; facilitate the discovery of entities, attributes, relationships, and business rules from functional experts and the user community
• Evaluate current environments, conduct research, recommend, and implement innovative designs that can enhance the reliability, security, productivity, and efficiency of systems
• Advocate for and embrace DevOps and CI/CD across the teams with a focus on scaling components and APIs horizontally, automated continuous deployment, version control, and monitoring
• Build trust and works collaboratively with all levels of the Tech and Ops organization, including engineering team, enterprise architecture team, business stakeholders, and executives
• Be responsible for all design and governance decisions for the assigned platform in alignment with enterprise architecture guidance and best practices. Perform design reviews and manage the software development lifecycle. Act as ultimate technical owner for any automation. Validate software design and implementation, enforce robust tests, help formulate deployment strategies and ensure software is scalable, resilient and performant

WHAT YOU'LL NEED

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent work experience
• 4+ years of software architecture, design, and implementation with a variety of technologies
• 3+ years of experience implementing .Net applications
• 6+ years of cumulative experience in IT
• Must be able to produce clear documentation to convey architecture, development standards, roadmaps, and potential challenges to all both technical and non-technical resources
• Disciplined, dynamic and flexible to manage multiple projects and tasks, work effectively in a rapidly changing environment and meet ongoing and overlapping deadlines
• Strong collaboration abilities to work in alignment with enterprise architecture to align platform architecture to company platform standards
• Able to apply an entrepreneurial approach and passion to problem solving and product development
• Understanding Microservice Architecture is a plus

BENEFITS

• Flexible and generous paid time off
• Competitive medical, dental, vision and life insurance
• 401(k) employer matching program
• Parental leave
• Wellness resources
• Charitable matching program
• Hybrid work
• On-site workout facilities (Leawood, Gilbert, Burlington)
• Community outreach groups
• Tuition reimbursement

Fostering A Sense of Belonging

We seek out and celebrate all people and perspectives and cultivate an inclusive culture where everyone can thrive, feel valued and be their authentic selves. Our culture is firmly rooted in the belief that by embracing our differences and drawing on diverse perspectives, we are a stronger, more innovative, and more successful organization where employees experience a sense of belonging.

About Ascend Learning

As a tech-enabled services company, Ascend Learning is a national leader in developing and delivering data-driven online educational content, software, assessments, analytics, and simulations serving institutions, students and employers across healthcare, fitness and wellness, public and workplace safety, skilled trades, insurance, financial services, cybersecurity, and higher education. We're committed to accelerating the learning pathways that can move people into careers where they have the knowledge and skills to have an impact and help change lives in the communities they serve. Headquartered in Burlington, MA with additional office locations and hybrid and remote workers in cities across the U.S., Ascend Learning was recognized by Newsweek and Plant-A Insights Group as one of America's 2023 Greatest Workplaces for Diversity.

Ascend Learning, LLC is proud to be an equal opportunity employer (M/F/Vets/Disabled). No agency or search firm submissions will be accepted. Applications for U.S. based positions with Ascend Learning, LLC must be legally authorized to work in the United States and verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

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