Senior Software Architect

About the Role Senior Software Architect at Koch IP Holdings, LLC's Guardian Glass product. You will design and implement product features for Claria, guide AI-powered systems, mentor engineers, and drive architectural excellence across teams.

What You'll Do

• Design and implement product features to Claria, Guardian's customer-facing AI platform
• Mentor software engineers and technical leads, helping grow architecture, design, and software engineering capabilities across the organization
• Guide the design and operation of AI-powered systems, including LLM integrations, orchestration frameworks, evaluation processes, and production monitoring
• Collaborate with cloud, security, and platform teams to ensure solutions meet enterprise standards for security, compliance, and reliability
• Communicate technical strategy, architectural decisions, risks, and trade-offs to business stakeholders, product owners, and leadership in a clear and actionable manner
• Drive the adoption of AI-assisted software engineering practices, developer productivity tools, and modern SDLC standards across the organization
• Partner with development teams to establish automated testing, CI/CD, observability, and operational excellence practices for both traditional and AI-enabled applications

What We're Looking For

• Expert in full-stack application architecture and development, including modern web frameworks, APIs, AWS cloud services, and distributed systems
• Deep expertise in AI/LLM application architecture and delivery, including orchestration patterns, tool integration, prompt engineering, RAG, evaluation frameworks, and production AI system operations
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, including object-oriented design, SOLID principles, testing strategies, and maintainable code practices
• Experience establishing and evolving AI-driven software development lifecycle (SDLC) practices, developer platforms, and engineering standards
• Advanced knowledge of AWS cloud-native architectures, containerization, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and DevOps practice
• Strong understanding of application security, identity and access management, secure-by-design principles, and threat modeling
• Proven ability to evaluate technology platforms, architectural patterns, and engineering tools, balancing business outcomes, security, maintainability, and operational requirements
• Proven ability to mentor engineers and technical leads while driving engineering excellence, architecture consistency, and long-term technology strategy

Nice to Have

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or other related field; Master’s preferred
• Proven experience designing and delivering scalable, secure, and highly available customer-facing applications