--- title: Software Architect at Harris Computer description: Harris Computer is hiring for the Software Architect role. Pays $115K–$125K per year. Full-time, hybrid role. See the full description and apply. type: job url: https://www.foundrole.com/jobs/software-architect-at-harris-computer-01a13cad-942f-7c8f-bf0e-9aee443d2203 date: 2026-11-15T01:26:44Z og_description: Join Harris Computer as Software Architect. Pays $115K–$125K per year. Full-time, hybrid role. Requires 8+ years of experience. og_image: https://www.foundrole.com/og/7pjldk.png breadcrumbs: - label: Home url: https://www.foundrole.com/ - label: Search url: https://www.foundrole.com/jobs --- | | | |---|---| | **Company** | Harris Computer | | **Location** | Pennsylvania (Hybrid) | | **Salary** | $115K/yr - $125K/yr | | **Type** | Full Time | | **Posted** | Oct 13, 2026 | ## Is this job real? **Ghost job check:** A- · Low risk. Probably a real opening. ## Visa sponsorship - **H-1B:** Harris Computer sponsors H-1B visas. It filed 5 H-1B petitions (FY2026 Q1 – FY2026 Q4). - **E-Verify:** No E-Verify enrollment on record for Harris Computer. ## Pay for similar jobs Most similar jobs pay $200,000 – $284,000 a year (median $231,000). ## Description Harris Digital Learning helps school districts build and run successful digital learning programs. At the heart of our work is eSchoolware™, our proprietary learning management system. It brings together everything districts need to manage, deliver, and support online and hybrid learning in a single platform. eSchoolware serves students, teachers, parents, and administrators alike. It offers age-appropriate learning experiences for middle and high school students, mastery-based course progression, tools for communication and collaboration, and a reporting system with more than 200 standard reports, so educators always have the data they need to support student success. Our mission is simple: empower educators and engage every learner at every stage of their education. **What you will own** **Year one** - Define the target architecture and the sequence to reach it. The platform has no module seams today, so this is strangler-fig work around functional verticals on a shared foundation. - Specify and accept our modernization partner’s deliverables against defined criteria. You are the technical counterpart holding a fixed-price statement of work to account. - Lead the data-layer modernization: retire the XDoclet-generated Hibernate mappings in favour of JPA, and oversee the Oracle to PostgreSQL conversion alongside a specialist contractor. - Stand up the REST API façade and the identity, organization and enrollment foundation that everything else depends on. - Establish engineering practice from close to zero — CI/CD, code review, and characterization tests on a system with almost no test coverage today. - Recommend the shape of the team, and help us hire it. **Ongoing** - Architecture standards, design patterns and technical governance - Mentoring engineers and contractors - Making AI-assisted development a normal part of how the team works - Ensuring quality, maintainability, accessibility and security are built in rather than retrofitted **WHAT GOOD LOOKS LIKE AT 90 DAYS** A validated target architecture and a sequenced roadmap that leadership can fund · acceptance criteria agreed in writing with our modernization partner · your recommendation on the team we should build and in what order. **What we need** **MUST HAVE** - 8+ years building enterprise software, including 5+ leading engineering teams or owning architecture on significant programs - **You have actually modernized a large legacy system** — decomposed a monolith, replaced a data layer, migrated a platform off an unsupported stack. We care far more that you have done it than which technologies it happened to be. - Strong Java and Spring Boot, and genuine comfort in a modern front-end stack. We are targeting Angular, React, and TypeScript. - Relational database depth — schema design, ORM behaviour, query performance. Oracle and PostgreSQL are both in play. - **Experience owning a vendor or systems-integrator relationship**: writing the specification, defining acceptance, and holding the line when delivery drifts. - Cloud-native delivery on Azure or equivalent — CI/CD, infrastructure as code, monitoring and observability. - Building to WCAG 2.2 AA. Accessibility is a contractual obligation passed to us by the districts we serve, not a nice-to-have. - Experience working with Linux servers **GENUINELY HELPFUL, AND NOT REQUIRED** - K–12 or higher-education technology, and the 1EdTech standards — LTI 1.3, Common Cartridge and Thin Common Cartridge, OneRoster, QTI - Oracle-to-PostgreSQL migration, ora2pg, cutover planning and rollback strategy - Establishing test coverage on systems that have none - Remediating security findings in legacy code — secrets management, dependency CVEs, audit logging - Student data privacy: FERPA, COPPA, and district data-protection agreements - Portal frameworks such as Liferay. We are migrating away from it, so we are interested in the experience rather than a plan to keep it. - Gamified learning experiences and engagement mechanics - Fluent use of AI-assisted development tools in real delivery work, not just experimentation **A NOTE ON THE LIST ABOVE** We do not expect one person to bring all of this. If the first list describes you and two or three items in the second look familiar, please apply — we would rather talk to you than guess. **Education** Bachelor’s degree in software engineering, computer science or a related field, or the equivalent in demonstrated experience. We mean the second half of that sentence. **Salary range:** $115,000 - $125,000 USD per year. ## Skills - AI-Assisted Software Development - Angular (Web Framework) - Linux Servers - Data Privacy - Query Optimization - Liferay - Infrastructure as Code (IaC) - RESTful API - Cloud-Native Computing - Code Review - Material Characterization - Planning - Database Management - Facade Engineering - FERPA Compliance - Code Coverage - Observability - Software Design Patterns - Data Layer (Tag Management) - Microsoft Azure - PostgreSQL - Secrets Management - Data Protection - Object-Relational Mapping - CI/CD - Web Accessibility - Learning Tools Interoperability (Lti) - Mentoring - Statement of Work (Sow) Development - Software Maintainability - Front End (Software Engineering) - TypeScript - Database Design - Leadership - Systems Integration - Computer Science - Architecture Regulations - ICT Accessibility Standards - Product Roadmaps - Spring Boot - Writing - Hibernate ORM - Java - Governance - Audit Logging - System Cutover Planning ## Benefits - Employee Stock Options (ESOs) ## Related - [Technology & Software jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/careers/technology-and-software?utm_source=ai_markdown)- [Software Development jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/careers/technology-and-software/software-development?utm_source=ai_markdown)- [Software Developer / Engineer jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/careers/technology-and-software/software-development/software-developer-engineer?utm_source=ai_markdown)- [Software Architect (General) jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/careers/technology-and-software/software-development/software-developer-engineer/software-architect-general?utm_source=ai_markdown)- [Browse all companies](https://www.foundrole.com/companies?utm_source=ai_markdown) ## Related pages - [Software Products](https://www.foundrole.com/sectors/technology/software-products?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 118918 jobs ## Browse - [Companies](https://www.foundrole.com/companies?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Jobs by country](https://www.foundrole.com/locations?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Jobs in the United States by state and city](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [H1B sponsors by location](https://www.foundrole.com/h1b-sponsors?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [H1B salaries](https://www.foundrole.com/h1b-salaries?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Sectors and industries](https://www.foundrole.com/sectors?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Jobs by career field](https://www.foundrole.com/careers?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Latest jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/jobs/latest?utm_source=ai_markdown)