Technical Architect

Photon; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Photon, a leading Digital Platform Engineering company, is seeking a Technical Architect to design and lead large-scale systems for commerce domains. The role emphasizes cloud architecture, secure development, and cross-functional leadership across multiple domains.

The ideal candidate has 15+ years of software engineering experience, strong AWS/DevOps capabilities, and a track record of delivering scalable, observable, and secure architectures that support millions of users and complex customer

Qualifications

• 15+ years of progressive software engineering experience.
• Cloud platforms experience (AWS preferred).
• Design, scale, and optimize systems supporting millions of users.
• Strong security engineering and secure development practices.
• Experience with mobile infrastructure, crash analytics, release automation.
• Expertise in integration platforms, vendor ecosystems, and enterprise workflow automation.
• Experience with AI-assisted development and automation.
• Monitoring, observability, and event-driven systems.
• Spec-first practice — authors complete technical specifications and drives design reviews.
• Ability to take ownership of an existing codebase, standards, and roadmap at speed.
• Ability to influence product strategy, AI adoption, and business outcomes.
• 7+ years leading engineering initiatives in a distributed environment (Retail, Hospitality, etc).

Skills

Large-scale system design

Technical architecture

Cross-functional leadership

AWS

DevOps

CI/CD automation

Security engineering

Observability

Event-driven systems

AI-assisted development

Spec-first design

Codebase ownership

Product strategy influence

Distributed environments

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology

Job description

We are Photon, one of the world's largest Digital Platform Engineering companies providing a combination of Strategy Consulting, Creative Design and Technology Services to a wide range of customers. We work with 40% of the Fortune 100 companies.

Job Title: Technical Architect

Looking for Technical Architect / Principal Architect

• Commerce domain knowledge is a must — product catalog, cart, checkout, ordering, payments, and end-to-end customer journeys. QSR domain can be taught.
• Hands-on engineering is critical — must have designed/built custom commerce backends, APIs, and microservices.

Required Qualifications Technical Expertise:

• 15+ years of progressive software engineering experience, with demonstrated expertise in large-scale system design, technical architecture, and cross-functional leadership across multiple technology domains.
• Deep experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred), DevOps practices, and CI/CD automation.
• Proven ability to design, scale, and optimize systems supporting millions of users.
• Strong understanding of security engineering, compliance standards, and secure development practices.
• Experience with mobile infrastructure, crash analytics, feature deployment frameworks, and release automation.
• Expertise in integration platforms, vendor ecosystems, and enterprise workflow automation.
• Experience using AI-assisted development, agentic software engineering, automation, or emerging developer productivity tools to improve how teams design, build, test, deploy, and operate software.
• Strong background in monitoring, observability, event-driven systems, and operational analytics.
• Spec-first practice — authors complete technical specifications and drives design reviews from written artifacts
• Proven ability to take ownership of an existing codebase, standards set, and roadmap at speed
• Proven ability to influence product strategy, investment decisions, technical direction, AI adoption, and business outcomes through credibility, clarity, sound judgement, and technical insight.
• 7+ years of demonstrated track record of leading engineering initiatives with measurable business impact in a distributed environment (Retail, Hospitality, etc)

Education:

Bachelor's or equivalent degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology.