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Nelnet

IT Software Architect – .NET, Web

Nelnet

. Provide overarching architectural leadership across a portfolio of related applications .

Posted 9/18/2026full-timeLincoln • Colorado • United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $110,000 - $150,000 per yearWebsite

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Demonstrates architectural leadership in software development, focusing on Microsoft .NET frameworks, C#, and ASP.NET, while ensuring compliance with NIST standards and promoting secure development practices. Capable of driving application and platform cost optimization and fostering collaboration across Agile teams.

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Microsoft .NET FrameworksC#ASP.NETNIST Compliance KnowledgeTechnical Debt Remediation Planning

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Hard Skills
Software DevelopmentFull Stack DevelopmentRESTful Web ServicesService-Based ArchitectureMessage-Based ProcessingSQL ServerSecure Development PracticesArchitecture Decision RecordsApplication Integration StandardsTechnical Debt Quantification
Soft Skills
Strong Verbal Communication SkillsStrong Analytical SkillsAbility to Influence Technical Direction
Tools & Technologies
Microsoft IISGitLabJIRAConfluenceMicrosoft TeamsMicrosoft Team Foundation Server
Certifications & Qualifications
6C Federal Security Clearance
Industry Keywords
Agile DeliveryDeveloper Experience PracticesArchitecture ArtifactsIncident ManagementTechnical Alignment

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
ASP.NETSQLTFS.NET

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Provide overarching architectural leadership across a portfolio of related applications
  • Partner with application architects, site reliability engineers, and delivery teams to maintain technical alignment
  • Establish and sustain architecture practice, design standards, reference patterns, and shared design language
  • Capture architecture decisions as Architecture Decision Records maintained in source control
  • Review delivery-team designs and facilitate architectural decisions
  • Guide teams toward pragmatic solutions rather than owning delivery
  • Own and continuously improve the developer experience
  • Identify and remove technology and process impediments
  • Align organizational groups toward shared technical outcomes
  • Partner with infrastructure and platform teams and align delivery and platform roadmaps
  • Lead adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices and coach teams on responsible use
  • Drive application and platform cost optimization
  • Identify, quantify, and sequence technical debt remediation and post-implementation cleanup
  • Provide architectural leadership during incident management and post-incident reviews
  • Ensure systemic causes are addressed at the design level
  • Understand supported product domains and business drivers
  • Ensure solution architecture and design principles align with NDS IT Delivery technology direction
  • Promote technology reuse across services, components, and technologies
  • Protect data, systems, and networks and maintain secure, reliable, redundant, accessible systems
  • Identify and pursue enterprise solution-architecture improvements
  • Engage with Agile teams to deliver high-quality working software
  • Maintain technical currency and expand expertise
  • Work with Solution Architects to drive Nelnet technology solution architecture

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • US Citizenship
  • Ability to obtain a 6C Federal security clearance
  • BS / MS in Computer Science, Engineering, related discipline, or equivalent experience
  • Minimum 6 years of experience in software development
  • 2 to 3 years of experience as a technical or development leader
  • Strong expertise in at least one key competency
  • Microsoft .NET frameworks, C#, and ASP.NET
  • Microsoft IIS
  • RESTful web services
  • Service-based architecture
  • Message-based processing
  • SQL Server and/or other relational databases
  • Full stack development
  • Secure development practices
  • NIST compliance knowledge; ISSO2 strongly desired
  • Source control and CI/CD practice, including GitLab or equivalent
  • Architecture artifacts and Architecture Decision Records as code
  • Application integration standards and methods
  • In-depth software development lifecycle knowledge
  • Agile or iterative delivery exposure preferred
  • Developer experience practices, build and deployment pipelines, local development setup, and feedback loops
  • Technical debt quantification and remediation planning
  • Application and platform cost optimization
  • Hands-on fluency with AI development tooling and experience driving adoption
  • JIRA, Confluence, and/or Microsoft Teams
  • Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS)
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Ability to quickly learn new technologies and business functions
  • Strong analytical skills
  • Ability to influence technical direction without direct authority

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • HSA and FSA
  • Generous earned time off
  • 401K/student loan repayment
  • Life insurance and AD&D insurance
  • Employee assistance program
  • Employee stock purchase program
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Performance-based incentive pay
  • Short- and long-term disability
  • Robust wellness program
  • Hybrid work environment with in-office and remote work
  • 3/2 in-office/work-from-home schedule for associates within 30 miles of an office