Director, IoT Solutions Architecture & Ecosystem

Vivint; Washington (Washington County); On-site; USD 210,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

NRG Energy seeks a Director of Solutions Architecture for Partner Ecosystem & Integrations to own end-to-end system design, interface contracts, and integration blueprints bridging Vivint's smart home platform with external partner brands.

As an autonomous contributor, you will design architectures, set security and latency standards, and collaborate with Platform Engineering, Embedded Firmware, and Information Security teams to enable low-latency, scalable integrations across multi-vendor

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software/systems architecture experience.
• 4+ years designing developer platforms, partner APIs, or IoT architectures.
• Experience architecting complex, high-scale integrations with tier-1 partners.

Responsibilities

• Own the multi-year technical architecture, interface designs, and integration blueprints for third-party brand integrations.
• Define integration patterns and evaluation criteria before development begins.
• Set interoperability standards, security guardrails, and performance targets for partner integrations.

Skills

Autonomous Independent Contribution

End-to-End IoT Systems Architecture

Ecosystem Systems Thinking

Executive Technical Presence

Education

8+ years of software/systems architecture

4+ years designing developer platforms / IoT architectures / partner APIs

BS/MS in Computer Science / Computer Engineering / Electrical Engineering or equivalent

Job description

NRG Energy seeks a Director of Solutions Architecture for Partner Ecosystem & Integrations to own end-to-end system design, interface contracts, and integration blueprints bridging Vivint's smart home platform with external partner brands.

As an autonomous contributor, you will design architectures, set security and latency standards, and collaborate with Platform Engineering, Embedded Firmware, and Information Security teams to enable low-latency, scalable integrations across multi-vendor