Senior Platform Architect — AI-Enabled Cloud & Edge Leader

Daktronics; Idaho; Hybrid; USD 160.000 - 200.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Daktronics is seeking a Senior Principal Software Architect to lead architectural direction, governance, and long-term evolution of the company’s software platforms, including cloud and edge-based systems.

You will mentor the architecture team, drive modernization, collaborate with product management and engineering, and shape AI-enabled solutions. The role offers a US-based home office with occasional travel to campuses or customer sites.

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field.
• Ten (10)+ years of experience in software architecture, platform engineering, distributed systems, or related technical leadership roles.
• Demonstrated experience designing and evolving large-scale cloud, SaaS, or hybrid cloud/edge platforms.
• Experience leading, mentoring, and developing architects or other senior technical professionals.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, API-based architectures, software modernization, and platform engineering.
• Experience with designingsolutions with AI capabilities.
• Proven ability to influence technical direction across multiple teams and organizations.
• Excellent communication, leadership, problem-solving, and collaboration skills.
• Fluent in English, written and verbal.

Aufgaben

• Lead, mentor, and develop the software architecture team.
• Provide direction and oversight for architectural decisions across products, platforms, and shared services.
• Establish and enforce architecture standards, principles, and governance processes.
• Serve as the organization's primary technical authority for software architecture.
• May assume direct supervisory responsibility for software architects or others as organizational needs evolve.
• Architecting our solutions to be AI-enabled.
• Define and evolve the long-term architecture of shared cloud platform services and edge-based software systems.
• Drive scalable, secure, reliable, and reusable platform capabilities that support multiple products and future SaaS offerings.
• Define interaction patterns and responsibilities across cloud and edge environments.
• Ensure solutions are designed with a security-first and systems-level perspective.
• Lead platform modernization efforts that improve consistency, reuse, scalability, and development efficiency.
• Identify and reduce duplicated functionality, technical complexity, and architectural fragmentation.
• Guide technology decisions that support long-term business and product strategies.
• Evaluate technical aspects of build, buy, and partner opportunities.
• Provide recommendations based on architectural fit, scalability, integration complexity, security, and maintainability.
• Ensure selected solutions align with long-term platform direction.
• Partner with Software Strategy, Product Management, Engineering, and Business Development to align architecture with organizational goals.
• Build alignment across teams and promote consistent architectural practices throughout the organization.
• Increased adoption and reuse of shared platform capabilities.
• Improved consistency, reliability, security, and performance across software solutions.
• Reduced technical complexity and duplication.
• Effective development and growth of the software architecture team.
• Strong alignment between architecture decisions, product strategy, and business objectives.

Kenntnisse

Software architecture

Team leadership

Distributed systems

API-based architectures

Software modernization

Platform engineering

AI capabilities

Influence & leadership

Communication

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Azure DevOps

AWS

Git

GitHub Copilot

Microsoft Teams

Jobbeschreibung

Daktronics is seeking a Senior Principal Software Architect to lead architectural direction, governance, and long-term evolution of the company’s software platforms, including cloud and edge-based systems.

You will mentor the architecture team, drive modernization, collaborate with product management and engineering, and shape AI-enabled solutions. The role offers a US-based home office with occasional travel to campuses or customer sites.