Platform Architect – Data Focused New United States - Remote

Attain Talent; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote or Office Options

Health & Flex Spending Accounts

Company Match 401K

120 Hours of PTO

2 Weeks Paid Maternity/Paternity Leave

Community Service Paid Time Off

Training & Certification Support andRe

Birthday Gifts

Company Social Events

Job summary

Attain Talent seeks a hands-on Platform Architect to help build AirHub, a modern platform replacing eleven legacy EPA systems. You'll partner closely with our Solution Architecture Lead, serving as a deputy architect with a focus on data and migration, turning architectural direction into working software.

This is an opportunity for Senior, Staff, or Principal Engineers ready to move into architecture. You'll shape designs, work through tradeoffs, mentor engineers, and stay actively involved in

Qualifications

• Proven track record delivering complex software and guiding technical decisions as architect or senior Engineer
• Hands-on programming across services, APIs, databases, and automated testing
• Ability to connect system design with implementation and explain tradeoffs
• Experience with relational databases and SQL; data migration experience preferred
• Clear communication and ownership on a small team

Responsibilities

• Support architectural direction with the Solution Architecture Lead, breaking work into deliverable increments
• Stay close to the code by building services, reviewing changes, and guiding production deployments
• Guide data and migration work, model data, define integration contracts, and plan migrations
• Mentor engineers, remove blockers, and balance delivery, reliability, and maintainability
• Communicate with government partners and stakeholders to document decisions and needs

Skills

Hands-on coding

System design

Data modeling

Migration strategies

Mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Node.js

TypeScript

React

PostgreSQL

Kafka

AWS

Job description

Attain Talent seeks a hands-on Platform Architect to help build AirHub, a modern platform replacing eleven legacy EPA systems. You'll partner closely with our Solution Architecture Lead, serving as a deputy architect with a focus on data and migration. On our small team, you'll help turn architectural direction into working software and contribute wherever the work needs you.

This is an opportunity for Senior, Staff, or Principal Engineers ready to move into architecture. You may already be making architectural decisions without the title, or have the experience and judgment to take that next step. You'll shape designs, work through tradeoffs, and guide implementation while staying actively involved in code and delivery.

Your Impact

• Support architectural direction: work with the Solution Architecture Lead to evaluate options, make design decisions, and break complex work into deliverable increments.
• Stay close to the code: build services and integrations, review changes, troubleshoot issues, and help carry solutions into production.
• Guide data and migration work: understand legacy systems, shape data models and integration contracts, and help plan, implement, and validate migrations.
• Help the team move forward: mentor engineers, work through blockers, and make tradeoffs that balance delivery, reliability, and maintainability.
• Communicate clearly: work with government partners and business stakeholders to understand needs, explain decisions, and document what others need to build and support the system.

What You Bring

• A strong record of delivering complex software and guiding technical decisions, whether as an architect or an experienced engineer ready to step into the role.
• Sound engineering judgment and current, hands-on programming experience across services, APIs, databases, and automated testing.
• The ability to connect system design with implementation, explain tradeoffs, and follow a problem through to resolution.
• Practical experience with relational databases and SQL, plus integrating systems or evolving applications with existing data; interest in taking ownership of migration challenges.
• Clear communication, collaborative problem solving, and comfort taking ownership as priorities evolve on a small team.

Our stack includes Node.js, TypeScript, React, PostgreSQL, Kafka, and AWS. Experience with similar technologies and willingness to learn our stack are welcome. Legacy modernization, data migration, event-driven systems, and federal project experience are useful additional strengths.

How We Work

We collaborate through online mob and pair programming, with protected time for focused work. You'll share responsibility for delivery, ask for help when needed, and contribute wherever your experience can move the work forward.

Additional Information - Benefits

• Remote or Office Options
• Health & Flex Spending Accounts
• Company Match 401K
• 120 Hours of PTO
• 2 Weeks Paid Maternity/Paternity Leave
• Community Service Paid Time Off
• Training & Certification Support and Reimbursement
• Birthday Gifts
• Company Social Events

Attain Talent is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The individual base salary for this position is unique to each candidate and will be commensurate with experience, education, and skills.

Interested in this position but the compensation isn't quite right? Let us know your expectations, and we'll see if we can make it happen based on your qualifications.

Salary Range

$160,000 - $180,000 USD

Attain Talent is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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