Software Architect

Job Description

As a Software Architect, you will set technical direction for the next phase of OASES. That means owning architecture decisions, integration strategy, and modernisation patterns across a system with real customers and aviation-grade reliability expectations. You'll work directly with Engineering, Product, Customer Operations, and leadership.

About OASES: 

OASES is an aviation maintenance and engineering platform used globally by airlines, MROs, CAMOs, and aviation operators. We're evolving it into a modern real-time operations platform — incrementally, via API-first architecture, event-driven workflows, telemetry, and platform standardisation.

About Valsoft Corp: 

Established in Canada in 2015, Valsoft has grown to a global portfolio of 120+ companies, acquiring and developing vertical market software companies, enabling each business to deliver the best mission-critical solutions for customers in their respective industries. A key tenet of Valsoft’s philosophy is to invest in well-established businesses and foster an entrepreneurial environment that moulds companies into leaders in their respective industries. Valsoft looks to buy, hold, and create value through long-term partnerships with existing management. 

Key Responsibilities:

Platform Architecture

• Define and evolve the long-term technical architecture of OASES.
• Drive API-first and event-driven integration strategies.
• Establish architectural standards and engineering guardrails.
• Support incremental modernisation using Strangler Fig patterns and service boundaries.

Real-Time Operations

• Design architectures that support real-time operational workflows.
• Improve system observability, telemetry, and operational intelligence.
• Enable scalable operational dashboards and workflow orchestration.

Integration & Ecosystem

• Define reusable integration patterns and interface standards.
• Support ERP, Flight Ops, eTL, supplier, and third-party ecosystem integrations.
• Help establish a scalable integration catalogue and platform model.

Engineering Enablement

• Raise delivery maturity — CI/CD, automated testing, deployment consistency, resilience.
• Reduce architectural complexity and fragmentation.

Reliability & Security

• Ensure solutions meet aviation operational reliability expectations.
• Support auditability, security posture, resilience, and governance requirements.
• Contribute to enterprise readiness and operational compliance initiative.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering or related field.
• Track record designing and evolving enterprise software platforms.
• Demonstrable experience modernising legacy systems incrementally — you can talk us through a real migration you led.
• Strong with distributed systems, APIs, integration architecture, and cloud platforms.
• Comfortable in regulated or operationally sensitive environments.
• Pragmatic and outcome-focused — can balance strategic direction with delivery realities.
• Effective with both engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
• Useful technical depth:
• API architecture, event-driven systems, cloud-native platforms, CI/CD and DevOps practices, telemetry and monitoring, security and governance patterns.

Benefits

Why Join Us:

You will help define how modern aviation software platforms evolve:

• Operationally.
• Technically.
• Commercially.
• Architecturally.

While solving real operational challenges for airlines and aviation operators worldwide.