Application Architect

Assent is the leading AI native platform for supply chain sustainability and compliance, trusted by complex manufacturers and distributors around the world. Built and backed by experts who have led global compliance programs, our unified platform combines advanced AI, regulatory expertise, and the world's largest supply chain data network to help organizations reduce risk, lower operational costs, and build trust across every tier of the value chain. From human rights and responsible sourcing to PFAS reporting and Digital Product Passports, Assent transforms regulatory complexity into actionable insights that drive real business outcomes.

With over 900 team members across India, North America, Malaysia, the EU, and Kenya and more than 1,000 customers globally, Assent brings together global perspective and deep domain expertise. Our hybrid work model enables teams to collaborate effectively across regions while staying connected to the communities where they live and work. As a certified B Corporation, we meet rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability. This reflects our commitment to building technology that drives business performance while creating long-term value for people and the planet.

People First. Technology Forward.

Our commitment to People, Culture & Community (PCC) is rooted in building a diverse, inclusive, and high-performing team. We recruit and retain team members with a range of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives, while fostering a culture of belonging where all Assentees are respected, supported, and empowered to contribute.

As we continue to embed AI into how we work, we do so thoughtfully, enhancing human potential, supporting better decision-making, and prioritizing appropriate oversight, privacy, and fairness.

At Assent, we value your privacy and are committed to maintaining transparency in how we handle your personal information. As part of our talent acquisition and management processes, we may use AI technologies to support activities such as resume screening, candidate communication, and talent analytics.

Job Description

Position Focus The Application Architect ensures that our software platform and solutions maintain interoperability and velocity across all implementation teams. In our evolving engineering culture, architecture is a shared practice focused on making hard-to-change decisions. You will help shift our architecture from a centralized bottleneck to an interactive, pull-based capability, enabling developers to build polyglot services that behave as first-class citizens in our ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities

Execution & Agentic Enablement

• Design & Document: Design application services and document interfaces, patterns, and decisions with a focus on agility, performance, maintainability, and interoperability.
• Codify the Architecture: Translate conceptual solutions into codified instructions and tuned markdown files for Agentic Enablement (IDE), allowing software engineers to dynamically pull architectural standards into their local workflow.
• Drive Validation: Define and refine validation rules and scoring mechanisms to ensure architectural intent (e.g., correct boundaries, policy metadata) is provably reflected in runtime behavior, not just in design artifacts.

Planning & Intake Shaping

• Early Shaping: Actively participate in the Discover & Define intake phase to evaluate incoming feature concepts against core solution domains. explicitly catching boundary violations before technical design hardens.
• Curate the Active State: Maintain application solution artifacts in centralized repositories, ensuring our body of knowledge reflects a single, coherent reality for both human consumers and evolving agentic systems.

Continuous Feedback & Operations

• Close the Loop: Actively participate in the Continuous Feedback Loop by translating operational realities, systemic architectural debt, and telemetry into actionable updates for our agentic instructions and platform backlogs.
• Align to Customer Value: Ensure the alignment of new capabilities to the customer's business objectives and assist in the strategic resolution of complex, cross-domain customer issues.

Creating a Culture of Trust & Mentorship

• Distribute Capability: Foster a culture of communication by mentoring staff engineers and technical leads, helping them apply architecture principles independently without requiring direct intervention for foundational issues.
• Collaborative Problem Solving: Engage directly with implementation, product, and design teams to solve complex design problems and ensure suitable collaboration across teams servicing single, customer-focused features.

Qualifications

• 8–12+ years of experience in software engineering, with significant experience in application or solution architecture roles
• Strong experience designing and building distributed systems, APIs, and service-based architectures (e.g., microservices, event-driven systems)
• Demonstrated ability to define and apply architecture principles, patterns, and standards that enable scalability, maintainability, and interoperability
• Experience working in polyglot environments, with familiarity across multiple programming languages and frameworks
• Experience working with or enabling AI-assisted development tools (e.g., code generation, copilots) or designing systems that support AI-driven workflows.
• Strong understanding of system boundaries, domain modeling, and service design, with the ability to identify and prevent architectural drift
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams (engineering, product, design) to shape solutions from concept through delivery
• Proven ability to influence and guide engineers and technical leads without direct authority
• Experience creating and maintaining clear technical documentation (e.g., architecture decisions, interface definitions, patterns)
• Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to navigate ambiguity and make pragmatic design decisions
• Familiarity with modern development practices, including CI/CD, observability, and cloud-based platforms
• Experience using data and operational feedback to improve system design and reduce technical debt
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)

Additional Information

Life at Assent

Wellness: We believe that you and your family's well being is important. As a result, we offer vacation time that increases with tenure, comprehensive benefits packages (details vary by country), life leave days and more.

Financial Benefits: It's not all about the money – well, it's a little about the money. We understand that financial health is important and we offer a competitive base salary, a corporate bonus program, retirement savings options and more.

Life at Assent: There is purpose beyond your work. We provide our team members with flexible work options, volunteer days and opportunities to get involved in corporate giving initiatives.

Lifelong Learning: At Assent, curiosity is not only valued but encouraged. You will receive professional development days that are available to you the day you start.

At Assent, we are committed to growing and sustaining an environment where our team members feel included, valued, and heard. Our diversity and equal opportunity practices are guided and championed by our Diversity and Inclusion Working Group and our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs).

Our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion includes recruiting and retaining team members from diverse backgrounds and experiences, and fostering a culture of belonging where all team members are included, treated with dignity and respect, promoted on their merits, and placed in positions to contribute to business success.

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