Principal Enterprise Architect (Cloud & AI)

Location: USA (remote)

Company

hirify.global provides AI-powered identity verification, eKYC, AML, biometrics, liveness detection, and automation solutions to help prevent online identity fraud and financial crime.

What you will do

• Own the technical vision for scalable, high-performance, cost-efficient systems and configurable multi-tenant SaaS platforms.
• Design self-service workflow, rules, reporting, and data capabilities that reduce engineering overhead.
• Architect distributed data processing pipelines for batch and real-time workloads and optimize storage, retrieval, model execution, and compute costs.
• Guide teams on microservices, event-driven architectures, cloud-native patterns, and pragmatic technical execution through prototypes and proof-of-concepts.
• Champion secure GenAI, LLM, and agentic workflow adoption across the software development lifecycle.
• Lead the Architecture Review Council, establish standards, resolve complex architectural trade-offs, and mentor engineering leadership.

Requirements

• 12+ years of hands-on experience in system architecture, data engineering, cloud engineering, or technical leadership.
• Experience with multi-tenant architectures, configurable SaaS platforms, distributed systems, microservices, event-driven architectures, caching, and high-scale transactional systems.
• Deep hands-on AWS expertise, including EKS, IAM, Lambda, and networking.
• Experience with Terraform, CI/CD, Kubernetes, Docker, and infrastructure automation.
• Expert Java skills, strong Python skills, and knowledge of JavaScript/TypeScript and Kotlin.
• Experience integrating GenAI and ML into software development, leading architectural reviews, managing stakeholders, and performing TCO analysis.

Nice to have

• Professional experience with GCP.
• Experience with high-volume real-time data processing, distributed streaming architectures, or petabyte-scale data platforms.
• Familiarity with fraud prevention, identity verification, or authentication technologies.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on identity intelligence and security challenges involving millions of transactions.
• Drive modernization and operational cost optimization on an established scalable cloud foundation.
• Hands-on architecture leadership with direct execution responsibilities.
• Collaborate with engineering and AI/ML specialists.
• Competitive compensation and high ownership of the company’s technical direction.