Platform Architect || Onsite in Phoenix, AZ || W2

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, design, and evolution of enterprise cloud platforms supporting large-scale application and microservice deployments.
• Define technical direction for platform engineering, cloud-native runtimes, developer experience, and internal platform capabilities.
• Architect scalable, secure, and resilient distributed systems using AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Java, Spring Boot, and modern DevOps practices.
• Design and implement platform automation, CI/CD pipelines, self-service tooling, and reusable engineering frameworks.
• Drive modernization of legacy enterprise systems into cloud-native, microservices-based architectures.
• Establish API design standards for REST, GraphQL, secure integrations, and enterprise service communication.
• Provide architecture guidance for event-driven systems using Kafka, MQ, and related messaging technologies.
• Collaborate with application teams to improve reliability, observability, scalability, deployment consistency, and operational efficiency.
• Implement monitoring, logging, tracing, and reliability practices using tools such as Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, and distributed tracing platforms.
• Partner with security teams to ensure secure API design, authentication, authorization, and cloud security best practices.
• Mentor engineers, review technical designs, and promote engineering best practices across teams.
• Support cloud adoption initiatives through technical enablement, workshops, standards, and hands-on guidance.
• Contribute to platform strategy, architecture roadmaps, engineering standards, and reusable cloud patterns.

Required Skills

• 12+ years of experience in software engineering, platform architecture, cloud engineering, or enterprise application architecture.
• Strong hands-on experience with **AWS cloud services** and cloud-native architecture.
• Deep experience in **platform engineering**, internal developer platforms, cloud runtimes, and enterprise-scale deployment models.
• Strong expertise in **Kubernetes**, containerized workloads, and cloud-native application deployment.
• Hands-on experience with **Terraform** and Infrastructure as Code.
• Strong development background in **Java, Spring Boot**, and microservices architecture.
• Experience with **Python or Golang** is preferred.
• Strong understanding of **distributed systems, scalability, resiliency, high availability, and fault-tolerant design**.
• Strong experience with **API design**, including REST, GraphQL, secure API patterns, and partner integrations.
• Experience with messaging and event-driven architecture using **Kafka, MQ**, or similar technologies.
• Experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Git, and modern DevOps tooling.
• Strong observability experience using **Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, logging, monitoring, and distributed tracing**.
• Knowledge of secure application architecture, authentication, authorization, and secure API design.
• Ability to lead technical discussions, architecture reviews, and mentor engineering teams.