Senior Enterprise Architect - AI-Ready SaaS & Cloud-Native

Procurement Partners; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Procurement Partners is seeking an Enterprise Architect to define and guide the architecture of its enterprise SaaS platform. You will set direction across product lines, ensuring scalable, secure, resilient, and AI-ready software while guiding engineering teams.

You will collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, Data Science, Infrastructure, Security, and DevOps to modernize the stack and weave AI capabilities into products, including LLMs and RAG.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of professional software engineering experience; 8+ years designing enterprise software architecture.
• Experience architecting enterprise SaaS applications with strong distributed-systems and cloud-native expertise.
• Deep AWS experience across Bedrock, SageMaker, Lambda, ECS/EKS, API Gateway, EventBridge, DynamoDB, Redshift, S3.
• Strong software-architecture background: microservices, event-driven systems, event sourcing, DDD, and multi-tenant SaaS.
• Applied AI experience: Generative AI, LLMs, RAG, embeddings, vector databases, and responsible AI governance.
• Data technology depth across SQL and NoSQL (PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Redis, Elasticsearch) and vector databases.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills for technical and executive audiences.
• Healthcare, procurement, or supply chain software experience and familiarity with HIPAA and SOC 2 are a plus; AWS or TOGAF certification is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain the enterprise software architecture roadmap aligned with business objectives and product strategy.
• Define architectural standards, design patterns, reference architectures, and technology strategies for engineering teams.
• Lead architecture reviews for new products and major initiatives; ensure architectural consistency across product lines.
• Drive modernization of legacy applications into cloud-native, modular, scalable architectures.
• Design AI-ready software architectures that support ML and Generative AI across the platform.
• Architect AI solutions using LLMs, RAG, vector databases, and intelligent workflows.
• Partner with Product Management and Data Science to identify AI-enabled opportunities and guide model integration.
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies and establish architectural principles for responsible AI, security, privacy, and governance.
• Design scalable, cloud-native architectures on AWS; define microservices strategies and service boundaries.
• Design event-driven architectures using messaging and streaming tech; establish API-first integration standards.
• Support platform engineering initiatives and shared infrastructure services; improve resiliency and disaster recovery.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to engineering leadership; mentor engineers and lead design sessions.
• Promote engineering best practices including DDD, SOLID, clean architecture, and secure coding standards.
• Collaborate with DevOps to improve deployment automation and observability; promote reusable platform services.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud-native architectures

Communication skills

Tools

AWS Bedrock

AWS SageMaker

AWS Lambda

AWS ECS/EKS

API Gateway

EventBridge

DynamoDB

Redshift

S3

Job description

Procurement Partners is seeking an Enterprise Architect to define and guide the architecture of its enterprise SaaS platform. You will set direction across product lines, ensuring scalable, secure, resilient, and AI-ready software while guiding engineering teams.

You will collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, Data Science, Infrastructure, Security, and DevOps to modernize the stack and weave AI capabilities into products, including LLMs and RAG.