Senior Solutions Architect

platformsh; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO

Comprehensive healthcare

Stock options

Professional development budget

Office equipment budget

Wellness allowance

Annual team gatherings

Internet reimbursement

Parental leave

Remote work travel program

Job summary

Platform.sh is seeking a senior customer-facing architect to design workflow-driven solutions for enterprise customers. You will study current shipping practices, craft reference architectures, and lead architecture and security reviews in collaboration with product leadership.

As a founding member of a new product line, you will create reusable patterns from pilot deployments and drive multi-account growth across logos and the existing base, while aligning with governance and cost controls.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in technical roles with customer-facing architecture experience.
• Experience leading architecture reviews and security reviews for enterprise customers.
• Proficiency in one or more ecosystems: PHP/Symfony, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, or Go.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical discovery, architecture and security reviews, and value proofs for engineering leaders.
• Grow accounts by expanding workflows across logos and existing customers.
• Build hands-on workflow prototypes and integrations with GitHub/GitLab, Jira/Linear, Slack, and CI tools.
• Translate customer signals into roadmap input for the product team.
• Capture deployments as reusable reference architectures and templates.
• Run security questionnaires, architecture reviews, and executive briefings.

Skills

PHP/Symfony

JavaScript/TypeScript

Python

Go

Git workflows

CI/CD

Code review

Tools

Git

CI/CD tools

Job description

Role overview

A senior customer-facing architect role on an AI-native software delivery platform. The architect partners with enterprise customers to study how they actually ship code today—branching strategies, review culture, security constraints, legacy systems—and designs workflow-driven solutions that fit those realities rather than idealized environments. This is a founding position in a young product line, where patterns created in one account become the reference architecture shipped across every account.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical discovery, architecture and security reviews, proofs of value, and the conversations where engineering leaders decide to trust the platform.
• Grow accounts by expanding from the first deployed workflow to a second and third, across both new logos and the existing customer base.
• Build hands‑on workflow prototypes, custom steps, and integrations against each customer's GitHub or GitLab, Jira or Linear, Slack, and existing CI tooling.
• Serve as the shortest path between customer problems and the product roadmap, translating signals into structured engineering input.
• Capture each deployment as a reusable pattern—reference architecture, workflow template, or documented approach that partners and other architects can run independently.
• Run security questionnaires, architecture reviews, RFP inputs, technical workshops, and executive briefings tailored to the audience in the room.

Requirements

• Seven or more years in technical roles, with substantial customer-facing architecture experience such as solutions architecture, principal or lead pre‑sales engineering, technical consulting, professional services, or founding engineer work with design partners.
• Hands‑on coding depth: comfortable being dropped into an unfamiliar codebase and CI setup and becoming useful within days.
• Proficiency in at least one customer ecosystem: PHP and Symfony, JavaScript and TypeScript, Python, or Go.
• Real fluency in Git workflows, CI/CD, testing strategy, code review practice, release management, and how they break at scale.
• Cloud and infrastructure competence with containers, environments, secrets handling, cloud primitives, and the realities of production systems.
• Practical AI‑native experience building multi‑step agentic workflows, tool and MCP integration, context engineering, model evaluation, and steering, with awareness of governance, audit, and cost control.

Nice to have

• Strong value‑selling fundamentals: ability to anchor technical conversations in business outcomes rather than features.

Benefits and work setup

Remote position based in Canada or the United States; visa sponsorship is not available at this time.

The interview process runs through four sequential video conversations covering talent acquisition, hiring manager, field team, and executive leadership.

• The package includes flexible PTO, comprehensive healthcare, stock options, professional development and office equipment budgets, a wellness allowance, annual team gatherings, internet reimbursement, inclusive parental leave, and a remote work travel program.