Software Architecture Consulting — Minnesota-Based, Enterprise-Ready
Intertech’s senior software architects (based in Minnesota, serving nationwide) design scalable, secure, and maintainable systems—so your teams ship faster with fewer surprises.
Great architecture isn’t theory—it’s a set of decisions you can stand behind. We begin with an independent assessment and roadmap, then help your team choose the right path—replatform, re-architect, or replace—and implement it with clear standards, review gates, and measurable metrics. The outcome: scalable performance, predictable delivery, and a lower cost of change.
Planning
Intertech’s software planning & requirement analysis process sets the foundation for the entire software development process.
Architecture & Design
Our software architecture and system design stage lays the groundwork for successful software implementation by providing a clear roadmap for building the system.
Custom Development
Intertech experts help you select languages and implement coding standards and development practices that are well-informed & collaborative when updating or creating new web -based and desktop applications.
Quality Assurance
Intertech brings a comprehensive and integrated approach to software quality assurance (QA) and testing that fosters a commitment to delivering software of the highest quality.
Testing
Each type of test serves a specific purpose in the software development process, contributing to the overall quality and reliability of the software. The choice of tests depends on the project’s requirements, goals, and the nature of the software being developed.
Cloud Migration & Integration
Work with a team that understands cloud migration and cloud integration, as well as application architecture and development, so you get the “cloud full stack” experience from your dev-team.
“Intertech’s consultant was an excellent resource for our team. He was very knowledgeable and was able to help Cybertrol get up to speed with containerization best practices. He also was a big help with architecting our deployment process…. and very detailed and provided great documentation for future developers to reference.”
Software Manager| Cybertol
What Intertech Software Architecture Consulting Delivers (Beyond Diagrams)
Our architects partner with your dev teams to make change safer and faster. We focus on structure, boundaries, and flow—the parts that determine whether features move or stall.
- System design & scalability — capacity planning, concurrency, performance budgets
- Security architecture — authn/z, data protection, secrets, threat modeling
- Integration & contracts — reliable APIs/events; backward-compatible change
- Cloud architecture — AWS/Azure patterns, resilience, cost-efficiency
- Observability & quality — logging/metrics/tracing; policy-driven CI/CD
- BC/DR — (Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery) — fault-tolerance, recovery objectives, runbooks
Where We Start
Discovery → Architecture Plan → Early Wins
- Discovery & Baseline — We inventory critical services, dependencies, SLAs, failure modes, and team constraints to understand what’s blocking change.
- Architecture Plan — We choose the right path for your context—stabilize & replatform, reshape boundaries & re-architect, or replace—and define ADRs, acceptance criteria, and phased milestones your team can execute.
- Prove & Iterate — We pilot the plan in small slices and track lead time for changes, PR cycle time, change failure rate, test coverage, and cost-per-release—then adjust based on evidence.
Architecture Options (comparison table)
| Architecture Path | Use When | Primary Focus & Deliverables | Trade-offs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stabilize & Replatform | Runtime/infrastructure is the bottleneck; core domain logic is mostly sound | Harden environments, right-size cloud services, improve observability, enforce CI/CD policies. Deliverables: environment runbooks, deployment blueprints, cost/perf guardrails. | Fast risk reduction but limited change to domain boundaries; deeper code issues remain. |
| Reshape & Re-architect | Coupling/complexity blocks features, scale, or team autonomy | Define domain boundaries, contracts, and service seams; adopt patterns (modular monolith or services). Deliverables: ADRs, interface contracts, migration slices, quality gates. | Balanced investment; requires disciplined rollout and governance to avoid sprawl. |
| Rebuild / Replace | Legacy is unfixable, vendor platform is a better fit, or TCO/risks exceed value | Greenfield or product selection, data migration strategy, change management. Deliverables: target architecture, cutover plan, legacy retirement plan. | Highest near-term change management and cost; largest long-term payoff when done well. |
How Our Architects Support Your Teams
Our architects plug into your workflow as partners—not auditors. We help you make the right design calls, remove bottlenecks in code and infrastructure, and leave behind standards your team can sustain. The goal: safer changes, faster delivery, and architecture that tracks to business outcomes.
- Decision guidance — prevent costly mistakes with clear design trade-offs
- Hands-on problem solving — dig into code/infra to remove bottlenecks
- Mentorship & standard — patterns, code guidelines, PR checklists, ADRs
- Cross-team coordination — ensure architecture matches business goals
- Cloud & data — right-sized services; cost/perf monitoring and guardrails
With or Without Unifi by Intertech™ (Human-Guided Agentic AI)
“Thousands of agents” sounds great—until they hit your repos, policies, and CI/CD. The truth: most AI struggles because it jumps straight to code without governance. Unifi by Intertech™ starts earlier—requirements, stories, docs—and advances in tiny, auditable increments with humans in the loop.
We’ve invested heavily to get past the real roadblocks so your team gains predictable speed instead of cleanup work. Ready to make AI reliable for modernization and feature delivery—without bloat?
Prefer not to use AI now? No problem. Our Architecture consulting works with or without Unifi—we only add agents where they safely remove toil and you approve.
Software Architecture Consulting FAQs
Q1. What problems does software architecture consulting actually solve?
Bottlenecks that slow delivery—unclear boundaries, brittle integrations, scalability issues, and weak quality gates—so teams can ship faster with fewer surprises.
Q2. How do you decide between replatforming, re-architecting, or replacing a system?
We run a short assessment and map options to goals, risk, and budget. If infra is the issue, replatform; if code blocks change/scale, re-architect; if constraints exceed value, replace.
Q3. Do you work with AWS or Azure—and hybrid environments?
Yes. We right-size cloud services on AWS/Azure and integrate with on-prem/edge when needed, focusing on resilience, cost, identity, data, and observability.
Q4. Can you collaborate with our in-house developers (not replace them)?
Absolutely. We co-develop—guiding decisions, mentoring, and solving problems hands-on—so your team stays in control and gains sustainable practices.
Q5. What deliverables should we expect from an architecture engagement?
Assessment findings, target architecture, ADRs (architecture decision records), interface contracts, security patterns, migration slices, and CI/CD quality gates.
Q6. How do you handle security and compliance?
We design for least privilege, secrets management, auditability, and policy-driven pipelines, aligned to your governance and industry standards (e.g., HIPAA/PCI/SOX where applicable).
Q7. Microservices or modular monolith—what do you recommend?
It depends on your constraints. We prefer a modular monolith until independence and scaling needs justify services, avoiding premature complexity.
Q8. How do you measure success?
With delivery and reliability metrics: lead time for changes, PR cycle time, change failure rate, test coverage, defect escape rate, and cost-to-serve.
Q9. Can you help with performance and scalability planning?
Yes—capacity planning, concurrency models, caching strategies, and performance budgets, plus load testing and tuning plans tied to SLAs.
Q10. Do you design data and integration strategies too?
Yes—domain modeling, data retention/governance, eventing vs. synchronous APIs, versioning, and backward-compatible change to reduce breakage.
Q11.Do we have to use AI agents (Unifi by Intertech™) to benefit?
No. Architecture work stands on its own. When helpful, Unifi adds agentic AI in small, verifiable steps (triage, scaffolding, tests, PR checks) under human checkpoints.
Q12. Are you local to Minnesota? Can you work onsite?
Yes—Intertech is Minnesota-based and supports onsite sessions in the Twin Cities and statewide, with nationwide delivery available remotely or hybrid.
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What Does a Senior Intertech Software Architect Do For You
A Senior Intertech Consultant in Software Architecture is an experienced professional who collaborates with your internal teams to design and implement a system architecture that supports both your current and future business needs. Their expertise spans a wide range of architectural principles, including:
- System Design and Scalability: We help you craft an architecture that can handle growing demands, high volumes of data, and increased user activity without compromising performance.
- Technology Stack Evaluation: We help you choose the right set of technologies—whether .NET, Java, microservices, cloud platforms, or open-source solutions—that best fit your business needs and future vision.
- Security Architecture: We help you ensure that your systems are built with security in mind from the ground up. This includes designing authentication, authorization, data encryption, and secure communication layers.
- Integration Strategies: We help you develop plans for integrating your new system with existing systems, legacy software, and third-party services.
- Cloud Infrastructure: We help you leverage cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) to design scalable, resilient, and cost-effective systems.
- Performance Optimization: We help you design systems that can perform under high load and optimizing data storage and retrieval processes.
- Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery: We help you build architectures that ensure your systems are resilient to failures and can recover quickly.
A Senior Intertech Consultant in Software Architecture plays a crucial role in designing and implementing scalable, secure, and efficient systems tailored to meet business needs. They guide internal teams through the decision-making process, helping select the right technologies, design patterns, and integration strategies.
How Does a Senior Intertech Software Architect Support Your Internal Team
While your internal teams may have the technical skills to execute software development tasks, senior consultants bring in-depth knowledge and a strategic, high-level perspective to solve complex problems. Our senior consultants are skilled in working with internal teams in a variety of ways, including:
- Guiding Architectural Decisions: Senior consultants help internal teams make informed decisions on the architectural direction, providing insights that prevent costly mistakes down the line.
- Mentoring Internal Teams: Our consultants work closely with your developers, offering mentorship and sharing best practices to ensure they’re using the latest architectural design patterns and development techniques.
- Collaboration Across Teams: They act as liaisons between business leaders, project managers, developers, and IT staff, ensuring that the architecture meets both technical requirements and business goals.
- Hands-On Problem Solving: If your team encounters technical challenges, senior consultants can dive into the code or architecture to identify bottlenecks or flaws and provide practical solutions.
- Cloud Infrastructure: We help you leverage cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) to design scalable, resilient, and cost-effective systems.
- Translating Business Needs into Technical Solutions: A senior consultant bridges the gap between business leaders and developers by translating business requirements into technical specifications, ensuring the system meets organizational goals.
Why Partner With Intertech For Software Architecture Expertise
For decision-makers, engaging a senior Intertech consultant in software architecture provides a clear advantage. Our experts bring in-depth knowledge and a strategic perspective, helping to avoid costly mistakes and ensure that architectural decisions align with business goals. With one or more senior consultants on board, companies can future-proof their systems, minimize risks, and accelerate time-to-market, ensuring the architecture is scalable and optimized for long-term success. Just to mention a few areas that we help with, include:
- Avoid Expensive Mistakes: System architecture mistakes can be costly and difficult to correct later in the development process. Our senior consultants help you avoid these pitfalls by making informed decisions from the start.
- Future-Proof Your Systems: With deep industry knowledge and technical expertise, our consultants design systems that are flexible and scalable, ensuring that your software can evolve with your growing business.
- Reduce Time to Market: With a strategic architectural design in place, development teams can work faster and more efficiently, ensuring that the project is delivered on time and within budget.
- Minimize Risk: Our consultants consider potential risks, such as data security, integration issues, and system performance, and design architectures that mitigate these challenges before they arise.
- Maximize ROI: A well-designed architecture improves system performance, lowers operational costs, and enhances scalability, ultimately helping your business achieve a higher return on investment.
Types Of Software Architecture We Can Help You With
When designing a software system, selecting the right architecture is crucial for its scalability, maintainability, and performance. There are several types of software architecture, each suited for different business needs, project complexities, and technological requirements. A senior consultant will help guide you through the decision-making process, ensuring that your architecture choice aligns with your goals. Below are the most common types of software architecture that our senior consultants work with:
Monolithic Architecture
Although more likely an architecture you are looking to modify for flexibility, in a monolithic architecture, all components of the application are integrated into a single, unified codebase. While this architecture is simpler to develop initially, it can become difficult to scale and maintain as the system grows. Our senior consultants help assess whether a monolithic approach is suitable for smaller applications or if a more modular approach is needed for long-term scalability.
- Best For: Small to medium-sized applications, simpler use cases, and shorter development timelines.
- Challenges: Difficult to scale, slower deployment times, risk of increased complexity as the system grows.
Microservices Architecture
Microservices architecture breaks down an application into smaller, independent services that can each be developed, deployed, and scaled independently. This architecture is ideal for large, complex applications with multiple teams working on different features. It allows for better scalability, resilience, and flexibility. Our consultants help you design microservices systems that improve efficiency while avoiding the pitfalls of poor integration.
- Best For: Large-scale applications that require frequent updates, need high scalability, and can benefit from decentralized development.
- Challenges: Complexity in managing inter-service communication, maintaining consistency across services, and monitoring individual microservices.
Event-Driven Architecture
Event-driven architecture focuses on the production, detection, and reaction to events within a system. It enables asynchronous communication between services, making it highly scalable and flexible. This architecture is especially useful in systems that require real-time processing, such as financial systems, e-commerce platforms, and IoT applications. Our consultants will ensure that your event-driven architecture is optimized for performance, fault tolerance, and maintainability.
- Best For: Real-time processing, event-based systems, and applications with high user interaction.
- Challenges: Difficulty in managing complex event flows and ensuring that the system is fault-tolerant.
Layered (N-Tier) Architecture
Layered architecture organizes software into distinct layers, each with a specific responsibility. Common layers include the presentation layer, business logic layer, and data access layer. This separation of concerns makes the application more maintainable and scalable. Our senior consultants help ensure that each layer is well-defined and optimized, preventing unnecessary dependencies and improving code organization.
- Best For: Applications where clear separation of concerns is needed, typically enterprise applications.
- Challenges: Potential performance bottlenecks due to inter-layer communication, can be rigid and less flexible.
Client-Server Architecture
Client-server architecture splits the system into two major components: clients (typically user devices or applications) and servers (where resources and data are hosted). This architecture is widely used in web applications and database-driven systems. Our senior consultants work to optimize the client-server communication, ensuring data is securely and efficiently transmitted between client devices and the server.
- Best For: Web applications, desktop applications, and database-driven systems.
- Challenges: Server scalability and performance issues, security concerns around data transmission.
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
SOA is a design paradigm that allows different software components to communicate over a network using standardized protocols, often via web services. SOA promotes reusability, flexibility, and scalability by breaking down applications into smaller, reusable services. Our consultants will ensure that the services are well-designed and integrated to meet business needs, avoiding common pitfalls like over-complicating the design or poor service communication.
- Best For: Large organizations with complex, multi-system environments and those requiring integration across various platforms.
- Challenges: Potential complexity in service management, versioning, and integration.
Serverless Architecture
Serverless architecture abstracts the underlying infrastructure management, allowing developers to focus on writing code. With serverless, applications are broken into functions that execute in response to events, and cloud providers handle the scaling. This architecture is ideal for applications with variable workloads and can significantly reduce operational costs. Our senior consultants help determine when and how to implement serverless to optimize both performance and cost.
- Best For: Event-driven applications, microservices, applications with fluctuating workloads.
- Challenges: Cold start latency, limited control over infrastructure, potential vendor lock-in.
Cloud-Native Architecture
Cloud-native architecture involves building and deploying applications that fully embrace the cloud environment, leveraging cloud services such as storage, compute power, and scalability. This architecture emphasizes the use of microservices, containerization, and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines. Our senior consultants design cloud-native solutions that optimize the use of cloud resources and ensure high availability, performance, and cost-efficiency.
- Best For: Cloud-based applications, modern startups, and enterprises looking to leverage the cloud for scalability and resilience.
- Challenges: Complexity in managing cloud services, potential security and compliance issues.
CQRS (Command Query Responsibility Segregation) Architecture
CQRS is a pattern that separates the operations that modify data (commands) from the operations that read data (queries). This approach allows the system to scale more efficiently by optimizing reads and writes independently. It’s particularly useful for systems where read and write workloads are significantly different, such as in financial or e-commerce applications. Our consultants help implement CQRS to enhance performance, scalability, and user experience.
- Best For: Systems with high read/write workload disparity, such as e-commerce platforms and banking applications.
- Challenges: Complexity in managing two separate models for read and write operations.
The Benefits We Bring To Your Architecture Project
With decades of combined experience, our senior consultants bring a wealth of knowledge in creating tailored architectures for organizations across industries. We don’t just design systems; we provide holistic solutions that align with your vision, meet your technical requirements, and scale with your future ambitions.
When you work with our senior consultants, you gain not just technical expertise but a trusted partner in navigating the complexities of software architecture. Our consultants are here to offer strategic guidance that aligns technical choices with your long-term business objectives, ensure your architecture is optimized for performance, security, and scalability, and help your internal teams grow and succeed by sharing knowledge, tools, and best practices.
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Our Senior Consultants Bring More to the Task of Architecture & Design
Expertise in Architecture Design Patterns
Intertech consultants bring a deep knowledge of proven architectural design patterns (e.g., microservices, event-driven, layered) and can apply them to solve complex system challenges, ensuring scalability and long-term maintainability.
Comprehensive Technology Evaluation
We evaluate and select the most appropriate technologies (e.g., cloud platforms, databases, frameworks) based on your business needs, helping avoid costly decisions and ensuring the right fit for your system’s requirements.
Risk Management & Mitigation
Our senior consultants are adept at identifying potential risks (e.g., security vulnerabilities, scalability bottlenecks) early in the process and recommending strategies to mitigate those risks before they affect the project.
Integration Strategy Expertise
Intertech consultants bring experience in developing complex integration strategies, ensuring that new systems are seamlessly connected with existing applications, data sources, and third-party services, reducing integration issues.
Cloud Architecture & Optimization
Our expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud), helps you design cloud-native or hybrid solutions, optimizing scalability, performance, and cost-effectiveness for cloud-based systems.
Scalability and Performance Optimization
Intertech architects have the experience to design systems that scale efficiently, ensuring performance remains optimal as traffic or data grows, preventing future bottlenecks and downtime.
Security Architecture & Best Practices
Our consultants implement security from the ground up, employing industry best practices for encryption, authentication, authorization, and compliance, ensuring your systems are secure and meet regulatory requirements.
Mentorship & Knowledge Transfer
Beyond just solving immediate problems, Intertech consultants mentor internal teams, transferring critical knowledge and best practices that help them grow their skills and improve long-term team performance.
Objective, Unbiased Perspective
As external experts, Intertech consultants bring an unbiased, fresh perspective to the project, offering creative solutions that might not be obvious to internal teams focused on day-to-day operations.
Conclusion
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