Senior Systems Architect & Technical Leader

Vantor; Westminster (CO); On-site; USD 128,000 - 187,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k match

Adoption assistance

Pet insurance

Job summary

Vantor is seeking 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 to deliver scalable software systems.

This role bridges Product and Engineering by validating customer needs, translating them into system architecture, and guiding technical decisions throughout the product lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related 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 integration and operational risks earlier.
• Improve requirements validation and technical decision-making.
• Scale systems engineering practices to support AI-enabled development.

Skills

Systems thinking

Software architecture

Technical leadership

Customer focus

Learning agility

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/SE/Systems Eng or related

Tools

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

Job description

Vantor is seeking 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 to deliver scalable software systems.

This role bridges Product and Engineering by validating customer needs, translating them into system architecture, and guiding technical decisions throughout the product lifecycle.