Principle Software Architect, Flexera
ITAM Solutions
IT management solutions
Job no longer available
IT management solutions
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To maximize the value of technology for the world's tech buyers and sellers.
Role
Who you are
- Experienced systems thinker with 10+ years of experience, including at least 5 years in an architecture role
- Broad exposure across domains and technology layers, providing technical leadership to large-scale implementation efforts
- Able to align technical decisions with business context, balancing technical excellence with pragmatic trade-offs
- Demonstrated ability to partner with platform engineering teams to align application needs with shared infrastructure and services
- Expertise in cloud platforms (AWS required; Azure a plus), big data platforms (Databricks), and data visualization tools (Power BI)
- Experience developing and architecting both cloud-native and traditional monolithic applications
- Effective at influencing at the leadership level, clearly communicating architectural vision and trade-offs to senior stakeholders
- Skilled at partnering with diverse engineering teams through collaborative and empathetic communication
- Comfortable leading through ambiguity and driving architectural evolution in complex, fast-paced environments
- Committed to mentoring engineers and architects, helping grow technical leadership across the organization
- Passionate about making technology simple, explainable, and impactful for real-world users
What the job involves
- As a Principal Software Architect for ITAM Solutions, you'll shape the architectural strategy behind our next-generation ITAM capabilities. This is a highly visible, hands-on technical leadership role where you’ll work across teams and products to align solution design with long-term business outcomes
- You will collaborate closely with leadership, architects, and product teams to evaluate and select the best technical solutions, with a focus on strategic initiatives beyond the next quarter
- You’ll lead efforts to unify data and user experiences across applications, drive architectural consistency through shared services and APIs, and help to embed AI capabilities that scale across the portfolio.
- This role also plays a critical part in improving developer experience, aligning platform and product concerns, and supporting enterprise-grade security and compliance
- It’s a unique opportunity to influence the future of our applications and drive improvements in how we build, integrate, and evolve technology across the organization
- Design and evolve scalable, resilient, and maintainable architecture for solutions in the IT asset management and SaaS management space
- Lead solution design during product discovery, translating business goals into scalable technical blueprints
- Drive cross-product architectural strategy, working closely with product architects to identify opportunities to build shared services and components that provide value across multiple products
- Collaborate across solution areas to ensure platform services support both product needs and broader platform strategy
- Ensure architectural alignment across engineering teams, championing consistency and high standards in system design
- Partner with product management, security, and engineering teams to ensure architectural decisions support business goals
- Author and maintain architectural documentation to guide implementation and facilitate cross-team understanding
- Create proof-of-concepts and reference implementations to validate new patterns or technologies
- Promote innovation and operational excellence, helping teams navigate trade-offs between performance, scalability, and time-to-market
Our take
Flexera is an IT solutions company for businesses looking to maximize the potential of their technology investments. Spun out of legacy company InstallShield dating back to 1987 and its leading software product Flexnet Manager, Flexera offers a range of solutions including IT asset management, IT visibility, and cloud migration.
It’s the latter that in the present day seems to be the most popular product from not only Flexera, but competitors too. Flexera was cited in the summer 2022 by Information Services Group as a global leader in hyperconverge infrastructure solutions (HCI) systems, that uses cloud computing as a basis for its build.
The company has been a shapeshifting entity on the market for decades now, with a flexible range of services that in 2023 include the Flexera One FinOps, a solution for the strengthening of cloud central teams. Flexera also saw a buyout by private equity firm Thoma Bravo to the sum of $2.9 billion in 2020. And since then has gone on acquisition spree of its own. Now the company boasts 50,00 customers worldwide and has offices across the globe.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Feb 2013
$15.6m
SERIES D
Sep 2010
$25m
SERIES C
Total funding: $62.1m
Company benefits
- Competitive pay
- Retirement and employee investment program
- Health and wellbeing
- Student loan debt relief and tuition reimbursement
- Competitive time off, hybrid work and new-parent support
- Connection through ERGs, giving and celebration
Company HQ
Addison Township, Itasca, IL
Leadership
Jim Ryan
(CEO & President)Jim has been at Flexera since 1998, joining the team as a Senior VP of International Sales & Operations. Since then. he has held a number of roles, becoming CEO in 2016. He is also the co-founder of the Do Great Thing Initiative.
Elizabeth Lages
(Chief People and Culture Officer)El joined Flexera in 2004 as a VP of Telebusiness and Channel Sales (North America), since then she has held a number of roles and became Chief People and CUlture Officer in 2021.
Chris B. Andersen
(CFO)Prior to joining FLexera in 2025, Chris served as the CFO at Acquia for 7 years. He was also a VP of Finance at Akamai Technologies for 6 years and a VP of Finance & Chief Accounting Officer at Progress Software for 1 year.
Becky Trevino
(CPO)Becky previously worked at Snow Software in Various VP Product roles until it was acquired by Flexera in 2024. Prior to this, she spent 6 years at Rackspace in various roles, including Senior Director of Product Marketing.
Brian Shannon
(CTO)Prior to joining Flexera in 2021, Brian was the VP of Platform Engineering at ServiceNow. He also held VP roles at GE HEalthcare and API Healthcare.
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