Senior Architect, Foundational Platform Engineering

Asurion; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Job summary

Asurion is seeking a Sr Principal Architect to lead the enterprise architecture for foundational platforms, standards, and practices across software delivery, security, and operations. You will shape reference architectures, drive platform tooling, and partner with Security and Cloud to enhance reliability and developer productivity.

The role involves mentoring senior engineers, guiding strategic technology decisions, and setting engineering practices that enable secure, scalable, and observable

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field.
• 12+ years of professional technology experience.
• Experience defining architecture for enterprise-scale platforms or distributed systems.
• Experience leading cross-functional technical initiatives and establishing enterprise standards.

Responsibilities

• Define enterprise architecture and reference patterns for software delivery and engineering platforms.
• Establish standards for SDLC, developer tooling, observability, logging, reliability, and authentication.
• Lead architecture reviews and cross-domain technical decisions.
• Shape developer platform, self-service, automation, and developer experience strategy.
• Partner with Security on identity, service-to-service authentication, software supply chain, and platform security.
• Guide modernization and adoption of common foundational platform capabilities and standards.
• Mentor architects and senior engineers and partner with technology leaders on strategy.

Skills

Software Delivery

Developer Platforms

Observability & Logging

Reliability Engineering

Identity & Authentication

Security Engineering

Cloud & Distributed Systems

Strategic thinking

Influence without authority

Clear communication

Pragmatic decision-making

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

12+ years of professional technology experience

Experience defining architecture for enterprise-scale platforms

Experience leading cross-functional technical initiatives

Job description

Asurion is seeking a Sr Principal Architect to lead the enterprise architecture for foundational platforms, standards, and practices across software delivery, security, and operations. You will shape reference architectures, drive platform tooling, and partner with Security and Cloud to enhance reliability and developer productivity.

The role involves mentoring senior engineers, guiding strategic technology decisions, and setting engineering practices that enable secure, scalable, and observable