Chief Architect - Cloud-Native SaaS & AI

Aderant Holdings, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Aderant Holdings, Inc. is seeking a Chief Architect for Product Engineering to define and drive the architectural vision across SaaS, cloud, AI, and data domains. You will guide standards, governance, and cross-functional collaboration with Product Management, App Engineering, Platform Engineering, and Cloud Operations.

Hands-on problem solving and strategic leadership are required. You will lead architecture reviews, mentor senior engineers, and collaborate with InfoSec and GRC to ensure

Qualifications

• 12+ years in software architecture.
• 5+ years as enterprise or chief architect.
• Experience with multi-tenant SaaS across clouds.
• Hands-on AI/ML-integrated product design.

Responsibilities

• Set technical architecture strategy across SaaS, cloud, AI, data, network, infrastructure, and security.
• Translate strategy into standards, guardrails, and reference patterns for product and engineering teams.
• Influence roadmap discussions without owning the roadmap.
• Represent architecture to CIO/CTO-level clients and provide technical deep dives.
• Mentor engineers and resolve cross-product architecture conflicts.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Cloud architecture

AI integration

Data architecture

Security architecture

Leadership

Client engagement

Infrastructure as code

Zero-trust

M&A integration

Tools

AWS

Azure

Job description

Aderant Holdings, Inc. is seeking a Chief Architect for Product Engineering to define and drive the architectural vision across SaaS, cloud, AI, and data domains. You will guide standards, governance, and cross-functional collaboration with Product Management, App Engineering, Platform Engineering, and Cloud Operations.

Hands-on problem solving and strategic leadership are required. You will lead architecture reviews, mentor senior engineers, and collaborate with InfoSec and GRC to ensure