Architect

Our Company

We care about helping people. Our purpose is to provide help and inspire confidence in our clients and communities everywhere. Our associates feel a sense of belonging in an inclusive place with an amazing history and a sharp focus on our future. Our connected culture is who we are and how we work together to achieve our strategies, accelerate our transformation, and achieve extraordinary results. It’s an exciting time to be a part of H&R Block!

What you'll do...

• Lead application architecture for assigned portfolios, engaging squads before designs harden.
• Convert complex financial requirements into clear, actionable engineering designs.
• Maintain architecture roadmaps, context diagrams, and technology stack definitions.
• Drive compliance with enterprise strategy, domain principles, and data standards.
• Guide API, event-driven, and resiliency choices across AWS and Azure platforms.
• Provide guidelines and oversight to ensure deliverables align with the enterprise vision.
• Identify risks early and facilitate pragmatic trade-offs between speed, quality, and cost.
• Assess application patterns and technical debt to simplify or retire legacy capabilities.
• Collaborate with security and data teams to ensure cohesive, cross-functional solutions.
• Join product discussions to ensure designs optimize for small business outcomes.
• Facilitate design reviews to build alignment across competing viewpoints.
• Mentor engineers on design practices, documentation, and enterprise dependencies.
• Maintain current documentation to eliminate reliance on tribal knowledge.
  
  

What you'll bring to the team...

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or the equivalent through a combination of education and related work experience.
  
  

Work Experience

• 10 years minimum related work experience
  
  

It would be even better if you also had...

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SkillsTet

Must Have

Good To Have

1

Python: Logic via Django/Flask.

Yes

2

• NET Ecosystem: C# and .NET Core services.
  
  

Yes

3

Angular: SPA frontend development.

Yes

4

AWS Cloud: EC2, RDS, Lambda, and Gateways.

Yes

5

Azure Platform: SaaS/PaaS strategic alignment.

Yes

6

SQL & NoSQL Database Design: Database optimization and sharding.

Yes

7

REST APIs: Internal and public service integrations.

Yes

8

Security & Compliance: PCI-DSS, encryption, and OAuth.

Yes

9

Containerization: Docker and Kubernetes management.

Yes

10

CI/CD Pipeline Automation

Yes

11

Observability & Resiliency Patterns

Yes

12

GraphQL: Nested data fetch management.

Yes

13

Terraform/CloudFormation: IaC for cloud provisioning.

Yes

14

Event-Driven Design: Asynchronous, decoupled patterns.

Yes

15

Generative AI: LLM integration for application features.

Yes

16

Agentic Workflows: Designing autonomous AI agents for task automation.

Yes

17

MCP (Model Context Protocol): Standardized AI-to-data integration.

Yes

18

AI Code Generation: Prompt-driven and automated code development.

Yes

Why work for us

H&R Block is a global consumer tax services provider and Fortune 1000 company. Founded in 1955 by brothers Henry and Richard Bloch, H&R Block is headquartered in Kansas City, MO & is the world’s largest assisted tax preparation company with Operations in the US, Australia, Canada and India providing Digital tax services and Retail tax services through more than 10,000 retail offices in North America.

H&R Block has always remained committed to being guided by a vision that is understood, embraced, and pursued by the entire organization: To empower financial freedom for our clients through trust and technology. By combining the knowledge of the highly trained professionals with cognitive computing technology, we’re offering our clients the most personalized tax experience ever. H&R Block offers both Retail Tax and Online Tax services.

Since 1955, we have been leaders in tax preparation, financial services, and small business solutions. With 70,000 associates and 9,000 retail tax locations across North America, Australia, Ireland, and India, we have helped millions of clients and countless communities. If you embrace challenges as opportunities, value winning as a team, and seek to make a meaningful difference, join us on our journey. You’ll reap the rewards of helping others along with competitive compensation and benefits to support your health and well-being.

Equal Opportunity Employer: H&R Block does not tolerate discrimination based on a person’s race, color, religion, ancestry, age, sex/gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, related medical conditions and sex-based stereotypes and transgender status), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, service in the Armed Forces, national origin, physical or mental disability, genetic information, citizenship status or any other status protected by law.