Senior Systems Architect – Remote Enterprise Platform Lead

Ladders; United States; Remote; USD 193,000 - 289,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Learning opportunities and diverse项目

Friendly team environment

Exceptional healthcare benefits

9/80 work schedule option

Great 401k matching program

Job summary

Ladders is seeking a Consulting Engineer Systems to shape enterprise technology direction across a broad portfolio of mission-critical platforms. The role requires leading architecture, integration, and engineering standards to improve reliability, scalability, and reuse in a complex environment.

You will partner with strategy, architecture, and engineering stakeholders to support informed investment decisions and measurable technical improvements. Remote-US based; visa sponsorship not available.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline with 16 years of relevant experience, or a Master’s degree with 14 years, or a PhD with 11 years.
• Experience as a chief architect or equivalent technical leader for large-scale software portfolios.
• Proven track record architecting and delivering complex solutions across multiple domains.
• Expertise in modern application technologies, including cloud platforms, microservices, and data platforms.
• Strong understanding of modern DevOps practices, particularly automated testing.
• Experience leading cross-functional technical teams and mentoring engineers and architects.
• Exceptional communication skills for conveying complex concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and engineering for approximately 190 enterprise platforms and applications.
• Own the technical performance and health of platforms, ensuring reliability and scalability.
• Define and maintain enterprise technical strategy and integration patterns for the portfolio.
• Provide independent technical authority for major platform investments and design decisions.
• Drive platform rationalization and reuse to reduce duplication and improve integration.
• Partner with strategy and architecture organizations to apply disciplined engineering standards.
• Define and track key technical performance metrics to drive continuous improvement.

Skills

Architectural leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Mentoring engineers

Strong communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related

Master’s degree

PhD

Tools

Cloud platforms

Microservices

Data platforms

DevOps automation/testing

Job description

Ladders is seeking a Consulting Engineer Systems to shape enterprise technology direction across a broad portfolio of mission-critical platforms. The role requires leading architecture, integration, and engineering standards to improve reliability, scalability, and reuse in a complex environment.

You will partner with strategy, architecture, and engineering stakeholders to support informed investment decisions and measurable technical improvements. Remote-US based; visa sponsorship not available.