Chief Platform Architect – Cloud & IoT

Vivint; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 265,000 - 340,000; Full time

Job summary

Vivint Smart Home, an NRG-owned company, seeks a Technical Director to set the technical vision for Platform Engineering, overseeing cloud services, APIs, and infrastructure behind millions of connected homes.

You will define platform strategy, partner with Mobile and Embedded teams, and drive reliability, security, and scalability while mentoring principal and staff engineers and shaping hiring standards.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience building and operating production software systems.
• 5+ years in principal-level or equivalent technical leadership roles.
• Track record setting technical direction for a large engineering organization.
• Deep expertise in large-scale distributed systems and cloud-native architecture.
• Experience leading major platform architecture changes, from strategy to delivery.
• Influence peer engineering organizations and executives without direct authority.
• Strong written communication, including architecture documents.

Responsibilities

• Define the multi-year technical vision and architecture roadmap for Platform Engineering.
• Drive architecture decisions across the platform organization, including services and APIs.
• Partner with Mobile and Embedded teams to align interfaces and device-to-cloud patterns.
• Establish and govern platform engineering standards for reliability, security, and observability.
• Advise executive leadership on major platform investments and risk.
• Lead technical reviews of high-impact platform initiatives spanning multiple teams.
• Identify systemic technical debt and drive multi-team plans to address them.
• Develop principal and staff engineers, shaping career paths and hiring standards.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud-native architecture

Technical leadership

Written communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

GCP

AWS

Kubernetes

Event-driven architectures

Job description

Vivint Smart Home, an NRG-owned company, seeks a Technical Director to set the technical vision for Platform Engineering, overseeing cloud services, APIs, and infrastructure behind millions of connected homes.

You will define platform strategy, partner with Mobile and Embedded teams, and drive reliability, security, and scalability while mentoring principal and staff engineers and shaping hiring standards.