Senior Application Architect - Build Platforms (Equity)

K2Spacecorporation; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical/Dental/Vision coverage

Paid time off

Job summary

K2 Space is seeking a Senior Application Architect in Los Angeles to lead mission-critical platforms across engineering, manufacturing, finance and mission operations. You will translate business problems into scalable technical roadmaps and manage external vendors to ensure top-quality integration of commercial products.

The role emphasizes independent work on ambiguous projects, applying AI tools to accelerate analysis, and maintaining comprehensive architectural docs and user guides.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, STEM, or 10+ years in a related technical role.
• 8+ years architecting systems with distributed cloud architecture (AWS preferred; Azure/GCP acceptable).
• 3+ years in an internal customer-facing role driving technical project leadership.
• Experience with ERP, supply chain, financial systems, payments, analytics or CRM.

Responsibilities

• Define requirements and implementation risks with internal customers.
• Translate business problems into roadmaps for commercial products.
• Collaborate with third-party vendors to implement commercial products and ensure optimal configuration of COTS platforms; oversee vendor relationships and alignment with K2 Space priorities.
• Hold vendors accountable to schedules and budgets, knowing when to escalate or course-correct.
• Lead data validation and UAT, identifying root causes and data quality issues across systems.
• Communicate complex concepts clearly to technical and operational stakeholders across networking, security, deployment, user authentication, and system design.
• Manage multi-threaded, complex projects and report progress against goals and milestones.
• Execute system upgrades, patches, and change management with minimal disruption to operations.
• Serve as the voice of the customer to internal stakeholders across engineering, finance, sales, and product.
• Operate independently on ambiguous projects while balancing multiple workstreams and making sound tradeoffs.
• Apply AI and emerging technologies to accelerate analysis, documentation, troubleshooting and execution.
• Document and maintain technical artifacts including system architecture diagrams and user guides.

Skills

Distributed cloud architecture

Internal customer-facing leadership

API integration experience

SQL proficiency

C# experience

Data analytics

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related STEM field

Tools

AWS

Azure / GCP

Job description

K2 Space is seeking a Senior Application Architect in Los Angeles to lead mission-critical platforms across engineering, manufacturing, finance and mission operations. You will translate business problems into scalable technical roadmaps and manage external vendors to ensure top-quality integration of commercial products.

The role emphasizes independent work on ambiguous projects, applying AI tools to accelerate analysis, and maintaining comprehensive architectural docs and user guides.