Remote-First Senior Software Architect & AI Platform Leader

8thlightrebuild; United States; Remote; USD 152,000 - 221,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first

Learning stipend

Flexible PTO

New-parent leave (12 weeks)

Job summary

8thlightrebuild is seeking a senior technical strategist to lead complex consulting engagements, turning ambiguous goals into durable software platforms and measurable outcomes. You will advise on architecture and platform direction, contribute hands-on across varied technology environments, and help client teams adopt emerging approaches, including production AI systems.

You will mentor colleagues, surface practical options, and guide teams through decisions while balancing technical needs with

Qualifications

• Typically 10+ years delivering software across varied projects and client contexts.
• Leadership in high-stakes consulting and production-grade platforms.
• Experience taking AI or agent-based systems from prototype to production.
• Ability to lead modernization, replatforming and architecture balancing tech and outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Build client trust by understanding domain, objectives and constraints.
• Set platform engineering strategy and guide delivery aligning architecture with software.
• Advise on scalability, reliability, security, performance and platform evolution.
• Deliver systems across the machine learning lifecycle from data to monitoring.
• Surface options, document decisions and facilitate feedback and retrospectives.
• Mentor colleagues and share practices to improve delivery and quality.

Skills

10+ years

Consulting leadership

AI production systems

Architecture strategy

Cross-functional leadership

Job description

8thlightrebuild is seeking a senior technical strategist to lead complex consulting engagements, turning ambiguous goals into durable software platforms and measurable outcomes. You will advise on architecture and platform direction, contribute hands-on across varied technology environments, and help client teams adopt emerging approaches, including production AI systems.

You will mentor colleagues, surface practical options, and guide teams through decisions while balancing technical needs with