Lead Architect

Eames Consulting Group; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Eames Consulting Group is seeking a Product Area Lead Architect to provide hands-on architectural leadership across multiple product teams in the United States. This Principal-level role combines strategy with practical execution, guiding design decisions and resolving cross-team dependencies.

You will mentor senior engineers, shape scalable distributed systems and APIs, and drive modern cloud-native architectures with a focus on governance, security, and performance.

Qualifications

• 8–12+ years in software engineering and architecture.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and modern architecture.
• Experience designing and evolving APIs and SaaS platforms.
• Cloud-native experience, preferably AWS.
• Experience with GenAI/LLMs, RAG, or ML integrations.
• Experience working across multiple engineering teams.
• Strong communication and technical leadership skills.
• Pragmatic approach to architecture — able to balance long-term strategy with immediate execution.
• Hands-on experience with AI coding tools such as Cursor, Claude, GitHub Copilot, or similar.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture across multiple autonomous engineering teams.
• Identify and address architectural gaps, technical debt, and scalability risks.
• Design scalable distributed systems, APIs, and cloud-native architectures.
• Establish standards around APIs, authentication, observability, resiliency, and frontend architecture.
• Guide modernization and decomposition of legacy systems.
• Partner with Engineering, Product, Data Science, Platform, and DevOps teams.
• Architect GenAI/LLM solutions, including RAG, conversational AI, and model integrations.
• Establish responsible AI patterns around evaluation, privacy, guardrails, and output validation.
• Help scale the effective use of AI coding tools across engineering.
• Mentor senior engineers and architects while raising overall architectural maturity.

Skills

Distributed systems

APIs design

Cloud architecture

GenAI/LLMs integration

Technical leadership

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

AWS

Cursor

Claude

GitHub Copilot

Job description

I’m working with a growing technology organization looking for a Product Area Lead Architect to provide hands-on architectural leadership across multiple product teams.

This is a Principal-level architecture role, but it’s not an “ivory tower” position. You’ll be deeply involved with engineering teams, helping solve complex technical problems, establish standards, manage cross-team dependencies, and turn architectural strategy into practical execution.

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead architecture across multiple autonomous engineering teams
• Identify and address architectural gaps, technical debt, and scalability risks
• Design scalable distributed systems, APIs, and cloud-native architectures
• Establish standards around APIs, authentication, observability, resiliency, and frontend architecture
• Guide modernization and decomposition of legacy systems
• Partner with Engineering, Product, Data Science, Platform, and DevOps teams
• Architect GenAI/LLM solutions, including RAG, conversational AI, and model integrations
• Establish responsible AI patterns around evaluation, privacy, guardrails, and output validation
• Help scale the effective use of AI coding tools across engineering
• Mentor senior engineers and architects while raising overall architectural maturity

What we’re looking for:

• 8–12+ years in software engineering and architecture
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and modern architecture
• Experience designing and evolving APIs and SaaS platforms
• Cloud-native experience, preferably AWS
• Experience with GenAI/LLMs, RAG, or ML integrations
• Experience working across multiple engineering teams
• Strong communication and technical leadership skills
• Pragmatic approach to architecture — able to balance long-term strategy with immediate execution
• Hands-on experience with AI coding tools such as Cursor, Claude, GitHub Copilot, or similar