Platform Architect: AI-Driven Cloud & Data Solutions

Vizient; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 135,000 - 237,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Incentive eligible

Job summary

Vizient is seeking a Solutions Architect within the Platform Engineering organization to design scalable, secure, and reusable solutions across enterprise platforms, data services and applications. You will partner with Engineering, Architecture, CloudOps, Security and IT to ensure well-architected solutions using cloud-native and AI-enabled patterns.

The role blends deep systems design with hands-on depth, influencing architecture standards while guiding teams through end-to-end solution

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field (Master’s degree preferred).
• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 3+ years in software architecture or systems design roles.
• Hands-on experience designing, building, or integrating AI-enabled solutions.
• Strong diagramming, presentation, and technical communication skills.
• Knowledge across Data, Ontology, Apps, AI, Middleware, Security, Infrastructure and Cloud architecture.
• Experience with data/ontology modeling, data engineering, knowledge graphs, APIs, and orchestration.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end Platform components, solutions and reference architectures spanning applications, APIs, integrations, data platforms, identity, AI, and cloud infrastructure.
• Hands-on development to build POCs, automation scripts, tools, and reference implementations across application, data, security, AI, and integration use cases.
• Conduct architecture and design sessions with engineering teams and product stakeholders.
• Simplify complexities and gain stakeholder buy-in while aligning with Platform vision.
• Connect strategy to action within a matrix structure and align with strategies, policies and standards.
• Own the designs from functional, non-functional, operational, risks and economic perspectives.
• Communicate effectively at executive levels and mentor others in technology space.

Skills

Diagramming

Technical communication

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Cloud-native architectures

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/related field

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

Kubernetes

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

Vizient is seeking a Solutions Architect within the Platform Engineering organization to design scalable, secure, and reusable solutions across enterprise platforms, data services and applications. You will partner with Engineering, Architecture, CloudOps, Security and IT to ensure well-architected solutions using cloud-native and AI-enabled patterns.

The role blends deep systems design with hands-on depth, influencing architecture standards while guiding teams through end-to-end solution