--- title: "Dedicated Software Architects | Outsourced Development | Azendo" description: "Hire dedicated offshore software architects who work full time on your roadmap. A remote team from Thailand, managed by Azendo, for one fixed monthly fee." 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 roadmap 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, with a service delivery manager in Thailand who runs your team day to day. [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 discipline 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 answers for the work, training and coaching, the office and equipment, and HR and payroll. The price below is for a mid-level Software Architect; junior and senior 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 runs the team and answers for 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 specialist * ### 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 own 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 an outsourced software development team. They sit inside the delivery team and write code as well as decisions. Design choices are recorded where your 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 rather than diagrams nobody updates. * Scaling and resilience planning before the traffic arrives, not during the incident. * Technical review of work in progress, so the architecture on paper 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. Senior and principal only. Architecture calls for experience from running systems in production. Seniority is one of the inputs into 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. Software architects join as part of [software development outsourcing](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-software-development-team/) at Azendo. ## What we look for in a dedicated Software Architect. We look for architects who have run the systems they designed and lived with the consequences. They should explain a trade-off to a product owner in plain words, write a decision record that survives a reorganisation, and still review pull requests closely enough to see the design drift. ## Your remote Software Architect's first three months. 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 roadmap forces next. 3. Months 2 to 3Leading the structural work your team has been deferring, with a migration plan your 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 to 6 weeks From signing to our specialist starting Monthly Add or reduce hours at each cycle ## 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/) The same team, on your product, month after month. Chiang Mai and Bangkok, Thailand · UTC+7 ## Questions about adding a Software Architect to your team. Do we need a full-time architect? Most teams combine architecture with hands-on engineering in one full-time role, which keeps the designs grounded in the code. Will the architect write code? Yes. Writing code keeps the architecture practical and in step with the codebase. ## Add remote software architects to your team. Tell us your roadmap and your stack, and we'll come back with the right profile, the capacity and a start date. You can also [talk to a service delivery manager](https://azendo.co/get-in-touch/) first. [Contact us](https://azendo.co/get-in-touch/) [How it works](https://azendo.co/how-it-works/) ## Add software architects to your remote team.