Senior Platform Architect
About The Position
We are seeking a seasoned, self-directed Platform Architect with a strong sense of ownership and a track record of turning fragmented technology investments into cohesive, enterprise-grade platform capabilities. This is a senior individual contributor role for someone who operates comfortably at the intersection of deep technical architecture and executive-level influence — equally capable of designing an AWS landing zone pattern and presenting a platform strategy to senior leadership. You bring conviction, follow-through, and the credibility to drive platform-first thinking across a matrixed organization without direct authority. If you’re energized by building the connective tissue that makes engineering organizations more effective at scale — and doing it with a bias for durable, reusable, measurable outcomes — this role was built for you. Senior individual contributor responsible for defining enterprise platform architecture and driving platform-first thinking across Engineering, Infrastructure, Data, and Security. This role exists to prevent the organization from accumulating a collection of team-specific tools and one-off project implementations in place of scalable, reusable platform capabilities. It operates horizontally — influencing without direct authority — and is accountable for ensuring that strategic technology investments compound rather than fragment.
Requirements
- 15+ years in platform architecture, enterprise architecture, or large-scale systems design
- Deep, hands-on background in AWS — services breadth, landing zone/account design, infrastructure patterns, and cloud-native integration
- Strong experience with CI/CD ecosystems, developer platform design, and DevEx tooling
- Familiarity with data platform concepts including environment data management, masking, and synthetic data at the platform level
- Experience with AI/ML infrastructure and emerging agentic patterns on AWS
- Proven ability to influence and drive alignment across large, matrixed organizations without direct authority
- Executive-level communication and storytelling skills — equally fluent in an architecture review and a leadership strategy session
- Comfortable operating with ambiguity; able to drive adoption through credibility and collaboration, not positional authority
Responsibilities
- Define and communicate a cohesive enterprise platform vision across developer experience, cloud infrastructure, shared data services, and AI/agentic capabilities.
- Translate complex architectural concepts into clear narratives that resonate with both engineering teams and senior leadership.
- Drive platform-first thinking as an organizational default — not an afterthought.
- Design shared services with standard interfaces, reusable components, and clear consumption models.
- Identify where teams are building redundant or siloed solutions and redirect that investment toward durable platform capabilities.
- Establish and enforce cross-cutting standards for integration patterns, data handling, and platform access — aligned with Security and Compliance.
- Partner with engineering teams to define and continuously evolve the developer platform experience.
- Shape CI/CD, environment provisioning, workflow automation, and supporting services (including test data and environment-scoped datasets) as first-class platform capabilities — not disconnected projects.
- Identify gaps between available tooling and actual developer usability, and close them through deliberate platform design.
- Serve as the architectural authority for AWS-based platform services — including compute, networking, storage, and managed service patterns.
- Define reusable infrastructure patterns for workload onboarding, environment consistency, and cloud-native service integration.
- Partner with cloud engineering on guardrails, landing zone design, and account/VPC structure as platform capabilities rather than per-team configurations.
- Partner with development teams building next-generation AI-driven applications and agentic architectures on AWS (Bedrock, Lambda, Step Functions, etc.).
- Ensure AI/agentic capabilities are backed by scalable infrastructure patterns, governed integration models, and reusable platform services — not bespoke builds that can't be operationalized at scale.
- Provide architectural guidance that incorporates cost efficiency as a design constraint, not an afterthought.
- Partner with FinOps and engineering leadership to optimize platform cost structures and ensure that scalability decisions are balanced against spend.
- Act as a technical fiduciary — platform choices should deliver measurable ROI.
Benefits
- Competitive base salary plus discretionary annual bonus for select positions
- A 401(k) plan with a generous annual profit-sharing contribution
- Personalized development and career opportunities, including tuition reimbursement support
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans with zero contributions for employee coverage
- Employee assistance (EAP) and wellness programs
- Paid time off and paid parental leave
- Employer-paid life insurance and short- and long-term disability coverage
- Legal services and financial wellness plans at no cost to employees
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
