Position: Enterprise Architect - Platform & Data/AI .Location: Fort Collins CO No Remote or No Hybrid 5 Days on site.Roles & Responsibilities:Every payment, partner integration, and operational workflow at depends on a coherent, scalable architecture.
The Enterprise Architect ensures that teams move fast without fragmenting the platform. By defining clear architectural direction, guardrails, and decision frameworks, this role reduces complexity, manages enterprise-level technical debt, and enables sustainable growth.
As deepens its use of AI and automation, this role ensures those capabilities are production-grade, secure, and tightly integrated into real workflows - not bolted on as experiments.
This is not a purely advisory role. It is about making decisions, driving alignment, and ensuring architecture delivers measurable business impact.
What You'll DoOwn Platform & Enterprise Architecture - Define and maintain a target-state platform architecture to support a scalable, extensible, and resilient payments platform.
- Establish and enforce architectural principles and guardrails that enable consistency while preserving team autonomy.
- Guide architectural decisions for core payment flows, partner integrations, and shared platform services.
- Identify, prioritize, and reduce architectural complexity and enterprise-level technical debt.
- Ensure the architecture supports high availability, correctness, scalability, and regulatory requirements.
Drive Cloud, Reliability, and Cost Discipline - Own the cloud architecture strategy (AWS), with emphasis on resilience, observability, and cost efficiency.
- Partner with Platform Engineering and SRE to ensure architecture supports operational excellence.
- Drive modernization and simplification initiatives where they create measurable leverage.
- Incorporate FinOps-aware design decisions into platform architecture and service patterns.
Apply AI & Intelligent Automation Identify and drive practical AI/ML use cases that improve platform and operational outcomes, including:
- Payment exception handling and resolution
- Anomaly detection and fraud signal identification
- Intelligent routing, retries, and decisioning
- Partner support and operational automation
Define architectural patterns for AI-enabled systems, including:
- Data pipelines and feature readiness
- Model integration and inference services
- Monitoring, feedback loops, and governance
Ensure AI capabilities are secure, explainable where required, and production-grade.
Partner with product and engineering to ensure AI is embedded into workflows - not treated as an afterthought.
Align Architecture with Business Strategy - Translate business priorities into clear architectural decisions and tradeoffs.
- Act as a trusted advisor to leadership on platform investments, sequencing, and risk.
- Support strategic initiatives such as new partner models, platform extensions, and regulatory changes.
- Evaluate vendors, platforms, and build-vs-buy decisions through an architectural lens.
Lead Governance, Enablement, and Culture - Lead architecture reviews and provide clear, actionable guidance to engineering teams.
- Establish lightweight governance that balances autonomy with architectural coherence.
- Document architecture in ways that are current, practical, and useful to teams.
- Mentor senior engineers and raise architectural thinking across the organization.
Required Experience & Skills:- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, or a related field (Master's degree a plus).
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, systems, or architecture roles.
- Proven experience shaping enterprise or platform architecture in fintech, payments, or enterprise SaaS environments.
- Strong background in cloud-native, distributed systems.
- Hands-on experience integrating data and AI/ML capabilities into production systems.
- Practical experience applying AI/ML to real operational or product problems.
- Deep understanding of APIs, integrations, and high-throughput transaction systems.
- The ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup environment and maintain momentum through change.
- A pragmatic, systems-driven mindset with a strong focus on delivering measurable outcomes.
- Comfort operating effectively within a lean, evolving organization and adapting as priorities shift.
- Sound architectural judgment, paired with the confidence to make thoughtful tradeoffs and stand behind decisions.
- Clear, effective communication that aligns technical teams with business stakeholders and organizational goals.
Recommended but Not Required - Experience in payments, banking, or financial infrastructure.
- Exposure to fraud, risk, or compliance systems.
- Cloud or architecture certifications.
Regards,Manoj GoudDerex Technologies INCContact : Ext 206 
