Architect | Software Developer

Minnesota - Developer

Hollstadt Overview

Hollstadt Consulting is a management and technology consulting firm dedicated to placing professionals at engagements where they will excel. When you work with us, you'll work with a refreshingly real company led and staffed by seasoned experts who are also down-to-earth, good people. We're committed to treating you with respect and helping you achieve your career aspirations.

Since 1990, Hollstadt has been a trusted partner to more than 150 domestic and global companies and has successfully completed over 3,000 projects. Our continued growth has created challenging and rewarding opportunities for accomplished IT and Business Consultants. Hollstadt Consulting is an equal opportunity employer including disability/veteran.

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Job Description

Role: Architect \| Senior Development Lead (Multi-Tenant Saas - Hospitality/Retail)

Location: Position is mostly remote but requires willingness to travel occasionally to local office in Eden Prairie, MN and sometimes throughout the US to meet with clients

Contract: 5 months, with potential for extension or conversion

Rate: $80\.56-$89\.10/hour W2 depending on experience

About the role

We’re building a next-gen, end-to-end multi-tenant SaaS platform that transforms how hospitality and retail brands create, approve, and distribute content across print and digital channels. You’ll be the hands-on Architect/Senior Dev Lead who designs the platform, leads discovery and technical direction, and ships the MVP into production—then scales it into a modular, event-driven suite.

You’ll partner with Product, Operations to unify workflows and replace manual VDP/content pipelines with modern, MACH-aligned architecture.

What you’ll do

• Own Architecture \& Delivery

+ Define and build the end-to-end architecture for a multi-tenant, customer-facing SaaS (data isolation, RBAC/ABAC, audit, usage metering, SSO/OIDC/SAML, SCIM).

+ Champion a MACH approach (Microservices, API-first, Cloud-native, Headless) with strong API design (OpenAPI), webhooks, and SDKs.

Lead a small squad (and vendors) through MVP+ GA: slice vertical increments, manage technical risk, and uphold SLIs/SLOs.

• Menu \& Content Platform (MVP)

+ Stand up menu creation/editing/versioning backed by a headless CMS/data layer; enable system-wide item/price changes across brands/locations.

+ Integrate CE.SDK (server and browser) to generate print-ready outputs (X.3 PDF; plus JPG/PNG) and support global image search/replace.

+ Implement online proofing/approval workflows (annotations, diff/compare) during MVP.

+ Establish digital asset inventory (with possible DAM integration), artifact immutability, provenance, and retention policies.

• Workflow, Data \& Integrations

+ Design event-driven processes (e.g., Kafka/PubSub/EventBridge; Durable/Temporal/Camunda where orchestration is needed), idempotent workers, DLQ/replay.

+ Integrate with existing Web2Print, multiple reference databases, and external systems (ERP/POS now; Print MIS in future phases).

+ Build observability (tracing/metrics/logs), cost/perf dashboards, and automated rollback/blue-green/canary deployments.

• Reporting \& Security

+ Stand up data pipelines to warehouse/BI for content, workflow, order, and shipment reporting.

+ Drive a security-first posture (secrets, encryption, least privilege, tenancy boundaries) and readiness toward SOC 2.

• Future Phases

+ Integrate Print MIS for job tracking/status and POS-driven dynamic content (menus, prices, promos).

+ Enable omnichannel outputs (print, digital signage, web, SMS), localization/i18n, and multi-brand/multi-language scale.

+ Explore agentic \& generative AI for template ingestion, proofing QA, and assisted content updates—with guardrails, grounding, and human-in-the-loop.

What success looks like (first 90 days)

• 30 days: Capability map \& target architecture, tenancy model decision, build vs. buy recommendations, MVP scope and 90-day plan.
• 60 days: Working vertical slice: login/SSO, tenant-aware content edit, proof/approve, print-ready output, basic reporting.
• 90 days: Add multi-brand/location support, asset inventory with global image swap, evented integrations, CI/CD with SLO dashboards.

Must-have qualifications

• 8\+ years engineering; 3\+ years leading architecture or platform initiatives for SaaS products.
• Shipped at least one multi-tenant system with clear tenant isolation (schema-per-tenant or shared\+RLS), RBAC/ABAC, audit trails, and SSO.
• Strong API design (OpenAPI), async patterns (pub/sub, outbox, idempotency), and workflow/approval design.
• Cloud proficiency (Azure, GCP, or AWS) with containers/serverless, CI/CD, infra as code (Terraform), and production observability (OpenTelemetry/App Insights/Cloud Monitoring).
• Experience integrating 3rd-party/legacy systems; comfort choosing orchestrated vs. event-driven approaches.

Nice-to-have (big plus)

• Pre-press/VDP stack exposure: InDesign Server, DALiM ES, XMPie, PDF/X preflight, diff/compare, annotations.
• Headless CMS/DAM (Payload CMS or similar) and CDN/renditions.
• Print MIS or shop-floor integrations; POS/ERP for catalog/price/promotions.
• Omnichannel distribution (digital signage/web/SMS) and localization/i18n at scale.
• Experience with agentic/GenAI features in production (RAG, tool calling, policy guardrails, cost controls).

Tech you may touch here

• Front end: React/Next.js (or similar), TypeScript, component libraries, real-time collab patterns.
• Back end: .NET/Node (flexible)—microservices, containers, workflow engine (Temporal/Camunda/Durable).
• Infra: Azure Container Apps, IaC (Terraform/Bicep), CI/CD (Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions/Cloud Build).
• Data: MongoDB (Azure DocumentDB), Azure BLOB Storage
• Eventing: Kafka/Pub/Sub/EventBridge; queues/tasks; DLQs; schema registry.
• Identity: Azure AD B2C, OIDC/SAML, SCIM, feature flags, per-tenant config.

How we work

• Product-engineering pairing with design \& operations
• Discovery-led roadmaps, vertical slicing, measurable outcomes
• Pragmatic buy-vs-build; quality gates, SLOs, and post-incident learning

Benefits \+ Perks

Comprehensive Benefit Plan

Hollstadt offers medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, paid sick leave, and retirement benefits to eligible employees. With three different medical plans to choose from, you can enroll in the coverage you need from individual to family, or anywhere in between!

Remarketing Process

Hollstadt is based on retention and relationships. We get to know your strengths and career wishes throughout your assignment and then start remarket discussions 6-8 weeks prior to your end date. By being proactive, we are able to keep your down time between assignments as short as possible, unless you choose otherwise.

Professional Development

Hollstadt offers on-demand training through our consultant portal. Trainings give our consultants the continuing education they need to excel on their projects. Many of our courses apply towards continuing education credits and we have an entire training hub dedicated to upskilling in Artificial Intelligence (AI).

401k \+ Matching

One popular benefit is our 401(k) match on the first 4% of your contributions. Hollstadt wants to help you reach your long-term financial goals and understands that planning for your future is critical. Consultants also have access to support from a Financial Advisor.

Bonus Opportunities

We appreciate and reward loyalty. Join Hollstadt, stay for 5 years, and we’ll give you a $5,000 Longevity Award bonus! Additionally, we know great talent knows other great talent. If you are on contract with Hollstadt and refer one of your connections who gets placed, we’ll pay you $1,000!

Ongoing Support \& Networking

We have made a significant investment in building a support program for our consultant team - so you never have to feel like you are going it alone. We also have a Consultant Coach program which acts like a 'work buddy' to provide a safe ear for questions or concerns at your client site.