Senior Platform Architect & Empowerment Lead

19109 SPEEDPAY RD; Norcross (GA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

ACI Worldwide seeks a Principal Platform Engineer, a senior technical leader who will shape, scale, and govern our internal platforms as products. You will drive architecture, developer experience, and cloud strategy across Kubernetes, OpenShift, and cloud platforms, mentoring engineers and enabling fast, secure delivery.

You will build reference architectures, guardrails, and self‑service tooling, embedding security and compliance early in the SDLC, while promoting inner‑sourcing and

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in software engineering, devops, cloud, or platform engineering roles.
• Deep hands‑on expertise with Kubernetes and/or OpenShift, CI/CD systems and SDLC tooling, IaaC (Terraform, ARM, CloudFormation), and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Proven ability to influence architecture without formal authority.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a technical authority for platform architecture across build‑time and run‑time domains (CI/CD, Kubernetes/OpenShift, cloud infrastructure, secrets, observability, and delivery tooling).
• Define and evolve reference architectures, platform standards, and design guardrails aligned with security, compliance, and FinOps.
• Lead architectural design reviews and guide teams toward scalable solutions.
• Drive cloud‑agnostic and hybrid designs supporting customer‑managed, SaaS, and on‑prem deployments.
• Treat platform capabilities as products with roadmaps, ownership, success metrics, and adoption goals.
• Design golden paths for common developer workflows (build, test, deploy, operate).
• Partner with Product, Client Delivery, and Engineering to reduce cognitive load and delivery friction.
• Ensure platforms are self‑service, automated, and documented.

Skills

Kubernetes

OpenShift

CI/CD

SDLC tooling

Infrastructure as Code

Cloud platforms

AWS

Azure

GCP

Architectural influence

Communication

Tools

Terraform

ARM templates

CloudFormation

Job description

ACI Worldwide seeks a Principal Platform Engineer, a senior technical leader who will shape, scale, and govern our internal platforms as products. You will drive architecture, developer experience, and cloud strategy across Kubernetes, OpenShift, and cloud platforms, mentoring engineers and enabling fast, secure delivery.

You will build reference architectures, guardrails, and self‑service tooling, embedding security and compliance early in the SDLC, while promoting inner‑sourcing and