Software Architect

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-integ...