Architect | Remote in Mexico

Openkrill; United States; Remote; USD 102,000 - 138,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent superior benefits

Job summary

Openkrill is seeking a Contract Architect for Fabric Platform Engineering. The role covers hands-on architecture across platform products, APIs, datastores, UX, cloud and AI-enabled engineering.

You will partner with Product Managers, engineers and stakeholders to shape outcomes, produce architecture blueprints and implementation guidance, and turn designs into working code with prototyping and reviews. This remote Mexico-based role offers a competitive salary.

Qualifications

• Experience across cloud-native architecture, data security and governance.
• Hands-on software engineering in modern languages; reading production code.
• Familiarity with agentic AI tools and delivery workflows.

Responsibilities

• Partner with PMs, BAs and stakeholders to shape outcomes and translate requirements into architecture options.
• Produce architecture blueprints, high-level and low-level designs, and decision records.
• Design secure, scalable services, APIs, datastores and reusable components.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to implement architecture through prototyping and code reviews.
• Promote reuse, set standards, and help create platform accelerators.
• Manage architecture backlog and balance cost, risk, security, and time-to-market.
• Coordinate with security, platform and engineering teams to align designs.
• Apply AI-assisted engineering practices to improve delivery and quality.

Skills

Cloud-native architecture

Software engineering

Azure experience

APIs & microservices

Kubernetes

Security & compliance

Stakeholder communication

AI tooling familiarity

Tools

GitHub Copilot

Azure DevOps

AKS

CI/CD

Code reviews

Job description

Contract Architect | Fabric Platform Engineering

Hands-on architecture role across reusable platform products, APIs, datastores, UX, cloud and AI-enabled engineering

What you will do

• Partner with Product Managers, Business Analysts and stakeholders to clarify outcomes, shape product vision and translate requirements into pragmatic architecture options.
• Produce concise architecture blueprints, high-level and low-level designs, technical decision records and implementation guidance for platform products.
• Design secure, scalable and reusable services, APIs, datastore patterns, integration approaches, UX-facing capabilities and common components.
• Work closely with engineering teams to turn architecture into implementation, including hands-on prototyping, code review, pair design, design assurance and technical debt management.
• Select appropriate technologies, promote reuse, define development standards and help create common frameworks or accelerators across the platform.
• Participate in planning and estimation, maintain the architecture backlog and make trade-offs across cost, risk, quality, security and time-to-market.
• Coordinate with other architects, security, platform and engineering teams to align designs with enterprise standards and delivery constraints.
• Apply AI-assisted and agentic engineering practices responsibly to improve delivery, quality, documentation, testing and developer productivity.

Required skills and experience

• Strong architecture experience across cloud-native application, integration, data and security domains, with the judgement to balance governance and delivery pace.
• Hands-on software engineering capability in at least one modern language such as C#, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript or Python, plus confidence reading and reviewing production code.
• Practical experience using agentic AI coding tools and AI-assisted delivery workflows, for example GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Code, OpenAI Codex-style agents or similar tools.
• Practical Azure experience, including compute, storage, networking, security, Azure Policy, Entra ID, RBAC, Key Vault and tenant-aware identity patterns.
• Experience with APIs, microservices, containers and Kubernetes, preferably AKS, plus CI/CD and DevSecOps practices using Azure DevOps and/or GitHub.
• Ability to design access management, authentication and authorisation patterns for users, services and platform-to-platform integrations.
• Good understanding of compliance, in-application security, secure-by-design patterns and operating within enterprise technology standards.
• Experience designing for reusability, maintainability, observability, cost optimisation and technical debt control.
• Clear communication style, able to work with senior stakeholders, product teams, engineers and architects across distributed teams.

Desirable skills

• Experience with internal developer platforms, reusable engineering assets or platform marketplace models.
• Experience with generative AI solution patterns, retrieval-augmented generation, prompt evaluation, automated testing and AI governance guardrails.
• Familiarity with enterprise UX patterns, workflow automation and low-code/no-code product capabilities.
• Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure Security Engineer, TOGAF, SAFe or comparable architecture/security certification.

What good looks like

• Comfortable moving from strategy to code: can explain the architecture in a stakeholder meeting, then work with engineers on implementation details afterwards.
• Pragmatic rather than theoretical: makes sensible trade-offs, documents decisions clearly and keeps teams unblocked.
• Reuse-minded: looks for common patterns and components that can help multiple Fabric products, not just the immediate delivery need.
• Fluent in AI-enabled engineering, but grounded in security, reliability, maintainability and enterprise delivery standards.

ADVANCED CONVERSATIONAL ENGLISH AND SPANISH ESSENTIAL (Will be evaluated)

If you are a foreingner residing in Mexico, you must have a valid INE, CURP, NSS and RFC.

Job Details

Job type: Remote.

Location: Mexico -This position is fully remote; however, candidates must be currently residing in Mexico.

Salary: $120,000 gross

Benefits

• Excellent superior benefits.