Lead Architect, Digital Identity Platform

United States Digital Space LLC; Seattle, San Francisco (WA, CA); On-site; USD 230,000 - 290,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a visionary Platform Architect to lead Digital Identity. You will define the technical strategy for Tier-0 infrastructure that powers identity, entitlement, and authorization across products and members.

This role requires cross-team leadership and architectural rigor across complex, multi-tenant systems. This position emphasizes AI-driven development, operational excellence, and mentoring engineers to raise the entire team's technical capability and

Qualifications

• Designed and shipped scalable distributed systems.
• Built trusted, auditable infrastructure with verification.
• Used AI to accelerate development and experimentation.
• Led multiple teams with architectural governance.
• Established design reviews and operational excellence.
• Measured impact by outcomes, not complexity.

Responsibilities

• Define technical strategy for Digital Identity platforms.
• Architect scalable identity and authorization systems.
• Lead cross-organization platform convergence initiatives.
• Build reliable, auditable data integrity and drift detection.
• Develop operational excellence and incident response.
• Mentor senior engineers and raise team capability.
• Identify high-leverage investments in AI and infrastructure.

Skills

Distributed systems architecture

Technical leadership with accountable

AI fluency

Group-level influence

Engineering culture builder

Ownership of outcomes

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a visionary Platform Architect to lead Digital Identity. You will define the technical strategy for Tier-0 infrastructure that powers identity, entitlement, and authorization across products and members.

This role requires cross-team leadership and architectural rigor across complex, multi-tenant systems. This position emphasizes AI-driven development, operational excellence, and mentoring engineers to raise the entire team's technical capability and