Product Architect - Platform Engineering

Sierra Nevada Corporation; Englewood (CO); On-site; USD 190,000 - 261,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual incentive pay

Medical, dental, and vision plans

401(k) with 150% match up to 6%

Life insurance

3 weeks paid time off

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Sierra Nevada Corporation seeks a Product Architect – Platform Engineering to provide architectural leadership across cloud, data, and enterprise platforms. The role ensures scalable, reliable, and efficient platform capabilities with strong alignment to engineering and enterprise standards.

Collaborate with product, platform, and engineering leaders to define patterns, guide implementations, and maintain a cohesive architectural vision for modern DevOps and continuous delivery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 10+ years’ experience in security architecture, enterprise architecture, or platform engineering.
• Experience designing secure architectures across cloud, infrastructure, and enterprise platforms.
• Strong knowledge of cybersecurity principles including identity, network security, encryption, and data protection.
• Experience supporting DevSecOps and secure software development practices.
• Familiarity with Defense industry compliance topics such as CMMC, NIST 800-171, ITAR, DFARS, etc.
• Experience with firewalling, IDS/IPS systems, VPN technologies, DNS security, SIEM systems.
• Architecture and engineering experience with cloud networking technologies such as AWS Transit Gateway, Azure VWAN, DirectConnect/ExpressRoute, VPCs/VNETs, etc.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain reference architectures for cloud platforms, enterprise applications, and data platforms.
• Ensure platform capabilities are designed for scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to align solutions with architecture standards and best practices.
• Guide platform design decisions to support long-term maintainability and flexibility.
• Contribute to platform roadmaps aligned to business priorities and enterprise strategy.
• Define architecture patterns supporting CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation.
• Partner with engineering teams to implement DevOps practices across platforms.
• Enable consistent development, deployment, and operational workflows.
• Promote reuse of platform services and standardized engineering approaches.
• Support adoption of tooling and processes that improve delivery speed and quality.
• Translate enterprise architecture standards into practical platform design patterns.
• Provide architectural guidance across cloud, data, and application domains.

Skills

Security architecture

Enterprise architecture

Platform engineering

DevSecOps

Cloud security

Education

Bachelors degree in Computer Science

Tools

Cisco

Palo Alto

Job description

The Product Architect - Platform Engineering reporting to the Business & Technology Enablement organization within IT provides architectural leadership to ensure products and platforms are designed, developed, and delivered consistently across the enterprise. This role focuses on enabling scalable, reliable, and efficient platform capabilities through strong alignment with engineering teams and enterprise architecture standards. The Product Architect works closely with product, platform, and engineering leaders to define architecture patterns, guide implementation, and ensure consistency across solutions. This role establishes a cohesive architectural vision for platform engineering, supporting modern DevOps practices and continuous delivery. As SNC's corporate team, we provide the company and its business areas with strategic direction and business support spanning executive management, finance and accounting, operations, human resources, legal, IT, information security, facilities, marketing, and communications.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain reference architectures for cloud platforms, enterprise applications, and data platforms.
• Ensure platform capabilities are designed for scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to align solutions with architecture standards and best practices.
• Guide platform design decisions to support long-term maintainability and flexibility.
• Contribute to platform roadmaps aligned to business priorities and enterprise strategy.
• Define architecture patterns supporting CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation.
• Partner with engineering teams to implement DevOps practices across platforms.
• Enable consistent development, deployment, and operational workflows.
• Promote reuse of platform services and standardized engineering approaches.
• Support adoption of tooling and processes that improve delivery speed and quality.
• Translate enterprise architecture standards into practical platform design patterns.
• Ensure alignment between platform architecture and the Solution Delivery Lifecycle (SDL).
• Provide architectural guidance across cloud, data, and application domain.
• Support integration of platform capabilities across business and enterprise systems.
• Partner with Product Architects across domains to ensure consistency in architecture approaches.
• Participate in architecture governance forums and technical design reviews.
• Support engineering teams in resolving complex architectural challenges.
• Provide input on key architectural decisions aligned to enterprise reference architecture.
• Identify opportunities to improve platform architecture and engineering effectiveness.
• Contribute to roadmaps supporting platform modernization and resilience.
• Support enterprise initiatives focused on improving delivery and operational maturity.

Qualifications You Must Have

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, or related field.
• 10+ years’ experience in security architecture, enterprise architecture, or platform engineering.
• Experience designing secure architectures across cloud, infrastructure, and enterprise platforms.
• Strong knowledge of cybersecurity principles including identity, network security, encryption, and data protection.
• Experience supporting DevSecOps and secure software development practices.
• Familiarity with Defense industry compliance topics such as CMMC, NIST 800-171, ITAR, DFARS, and others.
• Experience with firewalling, IDS/IPS systems, VPN technologies, DNS security, SEIM systems.
• Experience with Cisco, Palo Alto, and other industry-leading vendors for network technology.
• Architecture and engineering experience with cloud networking technologies such as AWS Transit Gateway, Azure VWAN, DirectConnect/ExpressRoute, cloud VPN, VPCs/VNETs, firewalling, WAFs, routing technologies, load balancing, DNS services, etc.

Qualifications We Prefer

• Experience in regulated industries such as aerospace, defense, or government.
• Familiarity with frameworks such as NIST, Zero Trust Architecture, and secure cloud architectures.
• Experience integrating security controls into engineering platforms and pipelines.
• Strong collaboration experience working across cybersecurity and engineering teams.

Success Measures

• Security integrated into product and platform architectures.
• Improved adoption of secure engineering practices across development teams.
• Reduced friction between cybersecurity and engineering organizations.
• Strong alignment between cybersecurity architecture and enterprise architecture strategy.

IMPORTANT NOTICE

To conform to U.S. Government international trade regulations, applicant must be a U.S. Citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State or U.S. Department of Commerce. Learn more about the background check process for Security Clearances.

Estimated Starting Salary Range: $189,761.74 - $260,922.39.

This posting will be open for application for a minimum of 5 days and may be extended based on business needs.

SNC offers annual incentive pay based upon performance that is commensurate with the level of the position.

SNC offers a generous benefit package, including medical, dental, and vision plans, 401(k) with 150% match up to 6%, life insurance, 3 weeks paid time off, tuition reimbursement, and more.

• medical
• dental
• vision plans
• 401(k) with 150% match up to 6%
• life insurance
• 3 weeks paid time off
• tuition reimbursement
• more

SNC is a global leader in aerospace and national security committed to moving the American Dream forward. We’re known and respected for our mission and execution focus, agility, and disruptive and rapid innovation. We provide leading edge technologies and transformative solutions that support our nation’s most critical security needs.

If you are mission-focused, thrive in collaborative environments, and want to make our country stronger with state-of-the-art technologies that safeguard freedom, join our team!

SNC is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to an environment free of discrimination. Employment decisions are made based on merit without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran or other characteristics protected by law.

SNC is a trusted global leader in aerospace and national security. Our innovative solutions enable connected protection through command, control and communications systems, as well as ISR, cyber, electromagnetic spectrum management, and other high capabilities for systems across all domains - sea, land, air, space and cyber. As a longstanding leader in defense technology, SNC is the optimum intersection of commercial, defense and non-traditional contractors. We are one of the only privately owned mid-tier A&D contractors and we pride ourselves on our ability to invest early and often to ensure mission success on or ahead of schedule. It’s part of our mission to always stay one step ahead; working on solutions today to solve the problems of tomorrow. Founded in 1963, SNC is owned by Chairwoman Eren Ozmen and CEO Fatih Ozmen.