Lead Architect

Founded in 1993 in Cleveland, Ohio, Paragon has been delighting our clients' customers with award-winning web design and cutting-edge technology since 2006. Today, we are a nationwide team with employees located coast to coast, and we are looking for experienced Lead Architect with excellent technical and personal skills to join us.

But in such a competitive job market, why should you consider Paragon?

Paragon offers the promise of working in a sophisticated environment, utilizing cutting-edge technologies to implement and deploy new projects to a portfolio of nationally recognized brands and organizations.  We offer a top-notch group of experienced coworkers for collaboration and support.  Competitive pay.  Great benefits.  All the things that are probably on your job search checklist.

So again, why consider joining Paragon?

The answer is balance and how it defines our approach to customers, projects, and each other.  At its core, Paragon itself is a balance of a software house and a digital consultancy, with a unique, cross-discipline service catalog.  Our projects have ambitious goals and expected results, but they are realistic in terms of technologies and timelines.  Our customers are big enough to provide interesting challenges, but our organization is small enough to function without bureaucracy.  We aim to provide direction and support while allowing you to make decisions in the best interests of our projects and customers.  We expect to make full use of your current skills while helping you learn new tools and methods to keep you effective.  Most importantly, we want a career at Paragon to be in balance with the rest of your life, putting in 40 good hours a week and then moving on to the things that make you you.

Paragon is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio and is a Virtual First company.  We have employees throughout the US and this position does allow for remote work on a full-time basis.

More about this role:

We are currently seeking a proven, professional Lead Architect to join our team.  As the Lead Architect, you will serve as the technical visionary and strategist for the websites we build, often integrating with back-end systems, like content management systems (CMS). The Lead Architect provides deep functional and technical expertise to the project team, based on a thorough understanding of the different applications and the business flows. You will guide teams on project processes and technical implementation. The Lead Architect plays a pivotal role by balancing the technical and business needs of each project, in strong cooperation with the Project Managers. Candidate should have expertise with one or more of the following: React, Angular, Vue, Jamstack, headless development, C#.  Experience with Sitecore, Episerver/Optimizely or other modern web CMS platforms highly desired.

Required skills:

• Minimum of 5 years web development work experience in an expert role with demonstrated professional growth and achievement. Total work experience should be 10+ years. 
• Demonstrated expertise in architecting and building front-end and back-end web development, integrations, and best practices.
• Demonstrated ability to work closely with clients and translate business requirements into system requirements
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to work in a team
• Willingness to research and learn
• Superior work habits

What we offer:

At Paragon, you'll play an integral role in helping some of the world's leading companies envision, execute, and evolve their most complex digital objectives. We pride ourselves on blending human-centered design and strategy with modern platforms and technology – like API-driven, headless CMS architecture – to build digital experiences that make people think, feel and act.  No matter what part of the customer experience you're helping to enhance in your role — from research and strategy to design and development— you'll feel valued as part of our Virtual-first yet cohesive, winning team culture. 

In addition to our collaborative, creative work environment, we offer a full benefits package which includes:

• Competitive Pay
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Life Insurance
• Generous PTO program
• 401k with matching
• Training and Certification Reimbursement