Senior Systems Architect & Technical Lead

Vantor; Westminster (MD); On-site; USD 128,000 - 187,000; 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 Senior Staff Software Systems Engineer to serve as the technical authority for a product evolution, leading architecture, systems engineering, and integration across multiple teams. You will align customer needs with system design and guide decisions throughout the lifecycle.

You will balance customer outcomes, technical excellence, and delivery, mentoring engineers and scaling practices for AI-enabled development and production readiness.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline or equivalent practical experience.
• Significant experience designing and delivering complex software-intensive systems.
• Experience serving as a technical lead across multiple engineering teams.
• Strong understanding of modern software architecture and distributed systems.
• Experience leading architecture reviews and technical trade studies.
• Experience managing system integration and cross-team technical dependencies.
• Demonstrated ability to resolve complex technical issues spanning multiple organizations.
• Excellent communication skills with engineers, product managers, customers, and senior leadership.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical authority for a product or major product evolution.
• Define system architecture and technical direction spanning multiple engineering teams.
• Partner with Product Management to validate customer needs and ensure planned capabilities solve the right customer problem.
• Lead architecture reviews, trade studies, and major technical decisions affecting product evolution.
• Drive system decomposition, interface definition, integration planning, and release sequencing.
• Balance technical, operational, lifecycle, and delivery tradeoffs across teams and releases.
• Identify and manage architectural, integration, schedule, and operational risks across the product lifecycle.
• Resolve cross-team technical conflicts and remove engineering friction.
• Establish engineering practices that improve consistency, quality, and delivery across teams.
• Mentor senior engineers and develop technical leadership throughout the organization.
• Guide products from concept through integration, validation, operational readiness, and customer deployment.
• Apply AI to accelerate architecture and systems analysis; identify risks earlier.

Skills

Leadership

Distributed systems

Software architecture

Technical leadership

Cross-team coordination

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Cloud-native platforms

Event-driven architectures

AI-assisted workflows

Production deployment

Job description

Vantor seeks a Senior Staff Software Systems Engineer to serve as the technical authority for a product evolution, leading architecture, systems engineering, and integration across multiple teams. You will align customer needs with system design and guide decisions throughout the lifecycle.

You will balance customer outcomes, technical excellence, and delivery, mentoring engineers and scaling practices for AI-enabled development and production readiness.