Lead Cloud Solutions Architect

Accelerant is seeking a Product Area Lead Architect to provide hands on, operational architectural leadership for our Insights, Analytics & Workflows product area. This role operates at a Principal level, influencing architecture and execution across multiple autonomous product teams. You will work closely with team architects, engineering managers, product managers, and Data Science teams to ensure teams move fast without fragmenting the architecture.

This is not an ivory tower architecture role. It is highly collaborative, pragmatic, and operational, focused on identifying architectural gaps, managing dependencies, and enabling teams to execute confidently within a shared architectural framework. You will champion standards based architecture, leveraging web standards, open protocols, and industry conventions to build interoperable, accessible, and future proof systems., Operational Architectural Leadership

• Ensure architectural alignment across product teams, partnering closely with team architects and engineering managers
• Proactively identify architectural gaps, technical debt, and quality risks; drive resolution through collaboration and influence
• Manage cross team technical dependencies to enable independent, parallel execution
• Translate architectural strategy into clear, actionable guidance that teams can apply sprint by sprint

Cross Team Coordination & Alignment

• Facilitate architectural discussions and resolve technical conflicts across teams through principled, pragmatic decision making
• Act as an escalation point for complex cross team technical challenges
• Ensure architectural decisions are clearly communicated, understood, and consistently applied

Design and Innovation

• Define and maintain architectural patterns across backend services, APIs, data platforms, and front end systems
• Design scalable, resilient systems for analytics, workflow orchestration, and intelligence features
• Guide decomposition of legacy systems into well defined services and domains
• Evaluate technologies and data stores, favoring open standards and long term maintainability
• Architect distributed systems with focus on reliability, fault tolerance, and scalability

Standards & Governance

• Establish API design standards ensuring consistency, discoverability, and ease of integration
• Define front end standards prioritizing web platform capabilities, progressive enhancement, and accessibility (WCAG)
• Create governance frameworks that balance standardization with team autonomy
• Drive adoption of industry standards (OAuth2, OpenID Connect, OpenTelemetry, JSON:API) over proprietary alternatives

Technical Leadership

• Partner with engineering teams on design reviews, PR reviews, and implementation guidance
• Establish standards for cross cutting concerns: API versioning, auth, observability, error handling, and resiliency patterns
• Collaborate with platform and DevOps teams on containerization, CI/CD, and cloud native deployment
• Produce clear technical design documentation that drives alignment and knowledge sharing
• Mentor engineers and raise the overall architectural maturity of the organization

GenAI, ML & AI Architecture

• Architect customer facing GenAI features using LLMs, including RAG pipelines, prompt engineering frameworks, and conversational AI interfaces
• Define patterns for ML model integration: serving endpoints, API contracts, versioning, and health monitoring
• Partner with Data Science to translate models into production grade features with clear integration contracts and deployment workflows
• Establish standards for responsible AI, including evaluation criteria, privacy guardrails, and LLM output validation

AI Transformation & Productivity Leadership

• Scale AI driven development workflows across teams, ensuring engineers leverage AI coding tools effectively
• Guide team architects and coach senior engineers on using AI tools to enhance productivity and code quality
• Work hands on with teams to identify opportunities for AI to solve operational challenges and improve velocity

Solution Evaluation & Quality Assurance

• Evaluate and recommend technologies to enhance capabilities across analytics, workflow, and intelligence domains
• Ensure architectural integrity through code reviews, assessments, and continuous monitoring
• Proactively identify technical risks and devise strategies for reliability, security, and performance

Technical Requirements

Full Stack SaaS Architecture:

• Strong proficiency in modern JavaScript/TypeScript and Node.js
• Deep knowledge of web platform fundamentals and browser native capabilities
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• Deep knowledge of architecture principles, design patterns, and distributed systems
• Proven ability to make pragmatic tradeoffs in complex, evolving systems
• Experience in cloud native environments, preferably AWS

AI Enabled Engineering:

• Demonstrated experience using AI coding tools (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude, etc.)
• Understanding of AI applications for development productivity and code quality improvement, * 8 to 12+ years in software engineering and architecture roles
• Proven experience operating across multiple agile teams in an architectural leadership capacity
• Track record of managing cross team dependencies and bridging architectural vision with day to day execution
• Proven ability to drive AI adoption and transformation within engineering organizations
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills with ability to align work across distributed teams
• Pragmatic, operational mindset with strong problem solving abilities
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