Senior Solutions Architect: AI‑Driven Platform & Cloud

Vizient, Inc; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 135,000 - 237,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Incentive eligible

Benefits plan

Job summary

Vizient, Inc. seeks a Solutions Architect within its Platform Engineering organization in Irving, TX.

You will design scalable, secure, and reusable platform solutions, partnering with Engineering, Architecture, CloudOps, Security, and IT to ensure well-architected outcomes using cloud-native and AI-enabled patterns. You will lead end-to-end solution designs, mentor teams, and communicate with executives while aligning with enterprise strategy and platform standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field (Master’s degree preferred).
• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years in architecture or systems design.
• Hands-on AI-enabled solution design, build or integration.
• Strong diagramming and technical communication skills.
• Experience with data/ontology modeling, data engineering, APIs, middleware, cloud and security.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end Platform components and reference architectures for applications, APIs, data platforms, identity, AI, and cloud infra.
• Hands-on development to build POCs, automation scripts, tools, and reference implementations across AI, data, security and integration use cases.
• Conduct architecture and design sessions with engineering teams and product stakeholders.
• Simplify complexities, gain stakeholder buy-in, align with Platform vision.
• Navigate matrix structures and align with organizational strategies, policies and standards.
• Own designs across functional, non-functional, operational, risk and cost aspects.
• Communicate effectively at executive levels, mentoring and learning in tech space.

Skills

Software architecture

AI-enabled solutions

Cloud-native design

Kubernetes

IaC

Data modeling

Technical communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IS

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

Graph RAG

Agent orchestration

OBO/Agent Identity

HITL

Job description

Vizient, Inc. seeks a Solutions Architect within its Platform Engineering organization in Irving, TX.

You will design scalable, secure, and reusable platform solutions, partnering with Engineering, Architecture, CloudOps, Security, and IT to ensure well-architected outcomes using cloud-native and AI-enabled patterns. You will lead end-to-end solution designs, mentor teams, and communicate with executives while aligning with enterprise strategy and platform standards.