Product/Platform Architect

Fractal Analytics•New York, NY

1d•$160,000 - $220,000

About The Position

Fractal is seeking a highly experienced Product Architect to lead architecture strategy for a growing portfolio of AI-powered digital products. The role serves as the single architectural owner across multiple products, guiding scalability, platform modernization, AI enablement, data architecture, and long-term product strategy. The architect designs end-to-end products—not only cloud infrastructure—and works with client stakeholders, product teams, engineering leaders, and business sponsors to shape the product landscape. The position combines product and platform architecture, AI and data architecture, client engagement, delivery leadership, and business growth. It includes defining architecture across digital products and platforms, designing scalable and secure systems, establishing standards and governance, advising senior client leaders, and providing technical leadership to global teams. The role also contributes to proposals, client relationships, account growth, and AI-driven product opportunities.

Requirements

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
12+ years of experience in software engineering, solution architecture, or product architecture roles.
Proven experience architecting complex enterprise products from concept to production.
Strong expertise in product architecture and platform design.
Strong expertise in React and modern web architectures.
Strong expertise in cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Strong expertise in data architecture and data platform design.
Strong expertise in AI/ML and Generative AI solution architecture.
Strong expertise in API-first and microservices-based architectures.
Experience leading architecture discussions with executive and business stakeholders.
Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and consulting skills.

Nice To Haves

Experience in Pharma, Healthcare, or Life Sciences domains.
Exposure to commercial, medical, clinical, or patient-focused digital platforms.
Experience working in global delivery and client-facing consulting environments.
Familiarity with enterprise AI governance, responsible AI, and MLOps frameworks.

Responsibilities

Define and drive end-to-end architecture across multiple digital products and platforms.
Design scalable, secure, and resilient product architectures, primarily using React-based front ends and modern cloud-native technologies.
Establish architecture standards, reusable patterns, governance frameworks, and best practices across the product ecosystem.
Evaluate and optimize platform scalability, performance, reliability, and maintainability.
Architect AI-enabled solutions while balancing innovation, business value, and operational cost.
Design data architectures supporting analytics, AI/ML, GenAI, and enterprise integrations.
Define strategies for AI platform adoption, model integration, data pipelines, governance, and responsible AI practices.
Optimize AI infrastructure and consumption costs.
Lead architecture discussions and strategic conversations with senior client stakeholders.
Support proposal development, RFIs, RFPs, solution positioning, and technology strategy initiatives.
Advise client leadership on product modernization and AI transformation programs.
Represent the organization as a thought leader in platform and product engineering engagements.
Provide technical leadership to global engineering teams.
Partner with product managers, designers, data scientists, and engineering leaders to support successful execution.
Build and mentor an India-based architecture and engineering team supporting the product portfolio.
Ensure architectural alignment across ongoing and future products.
Contribute to account growth through solution innovation and strategic technology recommendations.
Identify opportunities for platform expansion, modernization, and AI-driven value creation.
Support client relationship development and long-term engagement strategy.