About the role
A top-tier global financial-technology platform is building its US R&D Center from the ground up, and is hiring a founding Platform Architect to define and own the technical architecture of its Financial Cloud – a multi-site, multi-module deployment system serving hundreds of engineers across dozens of global compliance jurisdictions.

This is a hands-on architecture role. You’ll set the architectural vision, make the foundational technology decisions, and work directly with engineering leads to keep the platform scalable, secure, and operationally excellent. It’s genuinely greenfield: you’re defining how the system works, not maintaining someone else’s.

What you’ll own

• The end-to-end architecture of the Financial Cloud: the module versioning system, dependency-graph engine, GitOps deployment model, and multi-site configuration management.
• Platform standards: API contracts, inter-module communication patterns, build-reproducibility requirements, and supply-chain security policy (SLSA, SBOM, artifact signing).
• The change-impact analysis system: dependency-graph ingestion (static and runtime), PR-level impact computation, and selective test orchestration.
• The multi-site GitOps model: site-config repo structure, ArgoCD/Flux controller topology, and staging→canary→production promotion gated on Golden Signals.
• Architectural reviews, engineering standards, and mentorship of senior engineers on platform design.
• Partnership with security, compliance, and product to meet regulatory requirements across every deployment jurisdiction.

What we’re looking for

• 10+ years in software engineering, including 5+ years in platform/infrastructure architecture.
• A proven track record designing large-scale developer platforms or IDPs used by 100+ engineers in production.
• Deep Kubernetes expertise: operators, CRDs, custom controllers, multi-cluster management.
• Expert-level GitOps: ArgoCD or Flux at scale (10+ clusters), plus Kustomize and Helm.
• Strong Go, with solid distributed-systems and API design.
• Supply-chain security experience: SLSA, Sigstore, in-toto, SBOM generation.
• You can articulate architectural tradeoffs at the system level, not just implement solutions.

Nice to have

• Platform/infrastructure architecture background at a fintech or a major cloud provider’s internal platform org.
• Graph databases (Neo4j, Dgraph) for dependency analysis.
• AWS or GCP platform-services experience.

The setup
Remote across the US to start, while the office is finalized. Fast two-stage interview process.