Senior Systems Architect for AI-Driven, Cloud-Scale Platforms

Vantor; Westminster (CO); On-site; USD 150,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with company match

Mental health resources

Student loan repayment assistance

Adoption reimbursement

Pet insurance

Job summary

Vantor seeks a Principal Engineer to lead the design and delivery of complex software-intensive systems spanning cloud platforms, distributed systems, AI-enabled products, and mission software. This senior leadership role requires balancing engineering rigor with product velocity, partnering with product and architecture leaders to define direction.

The role focuses on simplifying complexity, mitigating risks early, and enabling independent teams to deliver cohesive systems across domains.

Qualifications

• Must be a United States citizen.
• Bachelor’s degree in CS, SWE, Systems Eng, Aerospace Eng, or related field.
• 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.
• Strong understanding of software development, integration, deployment, and operational readiness.
• Ability to communicate effectively with engineers, product leaders, customers, senior leaders, and executives.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through influence and create alignment across multiple teams.

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 design decisions across 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.
• Shape technical direction across a product portfolio or domain.
• Influence engineering organizations through technical credibility rather than authority.
• Raise engineering quality through better architecture, engineering practices, and mentoring of senior leaders.
• Drive capabilities from concept through integration, validation, operational readiness, and customer adoption.

Skills

Systems thinking

Software architecture

Technical leadership

Learning agility

Product & mission orientation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/SWE/Systems Eng or related field

Tools

Cloud-native platforms (e.g., Kubernetes)

Job description

Vantor seeks a Principal Engineer to lead the design and delivery of complex software-intensive systems spanning cloud platforms, distributed systems, AI-enabled products, and mission software. This senior leadership role requires balancing engineering rigor with product velocity, partnering with product and architecture leaders to define direction.

The role focuses on simplifying complexity, mitigating risks early, and enabling independent teams to deliver cohesive systems across domains.