Enterprise Architect – Platform & Data/AI

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 Do

Own 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 Goud

Derex Technologies INC

Contact : 973-834-5005 Ext 206

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.