Senior Systems Architect for AI-Driven Cloud

Vantor Holdings, Inc.; Westminster (CO); On-site; USD 122,000 - 178,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

Mental health resources

Student loan repayment assistance

Adoption reimbursement

Pet insurance

Job summary

Vantor is seeking an engineering leader to design and deliver complex software systems spanning cloud platforms and AI-enabled products. You will guide architecture, manage cross-team delivery, and balance speed with quality to achieve mission outcomes.

You will influence senior technical leaders, identify risks early, and shape product directions while maintaining scalability and operational readiness across large distributed environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience solving complex software systems problems.
• Significant experience architecting and delivering large-scale, software-intensive systems.
• Demonstrated success leading major cross-functional or cross-domain technical initiatives.
• Deep understanding of modern software architecture and distributed systems.
• Experience leading architecture reviews, technical trade studies, and consequential design decisions.
• Experience defining system boundaries, interfaces, integration strategies, and validation approaches.
• Strong understanding of software development, integration, deployment, and operational readiness.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical design and delivery of complex, cross-domain software systems.
• Define system architecture, integration strategy, and technical direction across multiple engineering teams.
• Translate ambiguous customer, mission, and business problems into scalable technical solutions.
• Lead architecture trade studies and make consequential technical decisions across competing priorities.
• Drive system decomposition, interface definition, dependency management, and integration planning for large distributed systems.
• Partner with Product to validate customer needs and ensure delivered capabilities solve the right problems.
• Identify architectural, integration, operational, and delivery risks early and drive mitigation before they become execution problems.
• Shape technical direction across a product portfolio or strategic technical domain.
• Influence engineering organizations through technical credibility rather than reporting authority.
• Raise engineering quality through better architecture, engineering practices, technical standards, and mentoring of senior technical leaders.
• Drive capabilities from concept through integration, validation, operational readiness, and customer adoption.

Skills

Systems thinking

Software architecture

Technical leadership

Learning agility

Product orientation

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Distributed data systems

AI‑assisted software development

High-availability platforms

Job description

Vantor is seeking an engineering leader to design and deliver complex software systems spanning cloud platforms and AI-enabled products. You will guide architecture, manage cross-team delivery, and balance speed with quality to achieve mission outcomes.

You will influence senior technical leaders, identify risks early, and shape product directions while maintaining scalability and operational readiness across large distributed environments.