--- title: "A Dedicated Software Architect for Decisions Hard to Undo" description: "Service boundaries, data ownership and scale are expensive to change later. A software architect gets them right early. Hire one, dedicated and managed." url: "https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-software-development-team/software-architect/" --- 1. [Home](https://azendo.co/) 2. [Services](https://azendo.co/services/) 3. [Software development](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-software-development-team/) 4. Software Architect # Dedicated software architects for your offshore team. Offshore software architects in Chiang Mai and Bangkok, working full time on your product and managed by us. A software architect makes the structural decisions that are expensive to change later: service boundaries, data ownership and how the system handles growth. One agreement and one fixed monthly fee. We employ and manage the engineers day to day, from our offices in Chiang Mai and Bangkok. [Contact us](https://azendo.co/get-in-touch/) [See pricing](https://azendo.co/pricing/) Part of our service line [Software development](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-software-development-team/) This role is part of a dedicated software development team. It's [staff augmentation](https://azendo.co/blog/engagement-models/staff-augmentation/), fully managed: take one role on its own, or the whole area as one delivery team. ## One Software Architect, assigned to your product and fully managed. We assign a Software Architect to your team full time and run everything around them: a service delivery manager who oversees delivery, training and coaching, the office and equipment, and HR and payroll. The price below is for a mid-level Software Architect; other levels are priced in your proposal, and [how the monthly fee is built](https://azendo.co/pricing/) explains the arithmetic. From price One mid-level Software Architect, full time, everything below included. All 27 things included ›› * Software architect From **USD 4,500** per month * Service We manage and develop the team * A service delivery manager who oversees operations and delivery * A 1:1 with our Head of Delivery every two weeks * Weekly delivery scoring and monthly capacity reports * A Talent Success Manager for every team member * HR We are the employer * Recruitment and technical assessment * Employment contracts * Salary and payroll * Tax and social security * Facilitation We provide the workplace * A desk in our office in Chiang Mai or Bangkok * A Workplace Experience Manager on site * Team events through the year * IT support * Equipment We supply the tools * Laptop and hardware * Software licences * LinkedIn Learning access * Device security and management ## What a Software Architect does on a dedicated software development team. They sit inside the delivery team and write code as well as decisions. Design choices are recorded where your own engineers can find them and argue with them. ### Software Architect skills and technologies * [Domain-driven design](https://azendo.co/skills/domain-driven-design/) * [event-driven architecture](https://azendo.co/skills/event-driven-architecture/) * [microservices and modular monoliths](https://azendo.co/skills/microservices-and-modular-monoliths/) * [CQRS](https://azendo.co/skills/cqrs/) * [API design](https://azendo.co/skills/api-design/) * [AWS and Azure reference architectures](https://azendo.co/skills/aws-and-azure-reference-architectures/) * [Kubernetes](https://azendo.co/skills/kubernetes/) * System design and service boundaries, documented as decision records that stay up to date. * Scaling and resilience planning before the traffic arrives, not during the incident. * Technical review of work in progress, so the documented architecture matches the one in the repository. * Reviewing third-party vendor architecture before you commit to an integration you cannot reverse. * Writing the migration plan when a service needs splitting, including what runs in parallel and for how long. ## Software Architect seniority levels. Junior to lead. Architecture calls for experience from running systems in production, so a senior or lead architect is the usual choice. That choice shows in how the monthly fee is built. ## When your team needs a Software Architect. Usually works within a delivery team, often combining architecture with hands-on engineering in one full-time role. The architect sits inside [a dedicated software development team](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-software-development-team/) and works with its developers every day. Architects usually join once a company decides to [hire a dedicated development team](https://azendo.co/hire-a-dedicated-development-team-in-thailand/) that will grow, so the structure is right before the team doubles. ## What we look for in a dedicated Software Architect. We look for architects who have run the systems they designed and seen how their decisions held up. They should explain a trade-off to a product owner in plain words and write a decision record that survives a reorganisation. They should still review pull requests closely enough to see the design drift. ## A remote Software Architect's first three months on your team. 1. Weeks 1 to 2Mapping the current system, its service boundaries and the decisions that were never written down. 2. Weeks 3 to 6Reviewing work in progress and writing the first decision records for the choices your product plans force next. 3. Months 2 to 3Leading the structural work your team has been deferring, with a migration plan your own engineers helped write. From USD 4,500 Per month for a mid-level software architect, fully managed 160 h Typical monthly capacity for this role Fixed The same fee every month 4 weeks Time to hire, from signing Weekly Delivery scores from you every Friday ## Other roles in software development. [Backend Developer Software development role](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-software-development-team/backend-developer/)[Frontend Developer Software development role](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-software-development-team/frontend-developer/)[Full Stack Developer Software development role](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-software-development-team/full-stack-developer/) Our architects write code and decisions for one client's system at a time. Chiang Mai and Bangkok, Thailand · UTC+7 ## Questions about adding a Software Architect to your team. Do we need a full-time architect? Architecture is often combined with hands-on engineering in one full-time role, which keeps the designs grounded in the code. A dedicated architect pays off when several teams build on one platform. It also pays off when big structural decisions, such as splitting a monolith, are planned for the year ahead. Will the architect write code? Yes. Writing code keeps the architecture practical and in step with the codebase. It also earns the trust of the engineers who work with those decisions every day. The architect also writes decision records, reviews pull requests on structural changes and pairs with engineers on the hardest parts. ## Add remote software architects to your team. Describe the system, where it strains and the big decisions coming this year. We'll propose the architect profile we'd hire for it and the fixed monthly fee. Sign, and we hire the architect in four weeks. [Contact us](https://azendo.co/get-in-touch/) [How it works](https://azendo.co/how-it-works/) ## Tell us what your software architect would work on.