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# LEAD PLATFORM ARCHITECH/ TECHNICAL LEAD 1099-PERM

- **Company:** KENTECH
- **Location:** Miami, FL, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** JavaScript (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Applications Architecture, Application Integration Architecture, Audit Trail, User Authentication, Automation of Tests, Software as a Service, Cloud Engineering, Collaborative Learning, Continuous Integration, Data Architecture, Data Integrity, Relational Databases, Software Debugging, Document Management Systems, PostgreSQL, Node.Js, Role-Based Access Control, Software Construction, Software Engineering, Systems Architecture, TypeScript, Enterprise Application Integration, Enterprise Software Applications, Cloud Monitoring, ReactJS, Software Security, Technical Debt, Event Driven Architecture, Front End Software Development, Restful APIs, Docker, Service Stack
- **Published:** August 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.wayup.com/i-j-LEAD-PLATFORM-ARCHITECH-TECHNICAL-LEAD-1099-PERM-Kentech-Consulting-Inc-712919154649974/

## About the Role

* 8+ years of professional software engineering experience. * Significant experience as a Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer, Lead Engineer, Platform Architect, Technical Lead, or equivalent. * Demonstrated experience designing and building production SaaS applications. * Experience designing multi-tenant systems. * Strong backend engineering expertise. * Strong understanding of modern frontend and application architecture. * Deep understanding of relational databases and data modeling. * Experience designing APIs and enterprise integration patterns. * Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, RBAC, and application security. * Experience working with sensitive or regulated data. * Experience building software within a compliance-oriented environment such as SOC 2, CJIS, FedRAMP, HIPAA, PCI, or an equivalent framework. * Deep AWS experience designing and operating secure production systems in regulated environments. * Experience
establishing CI/CD and modern software delivery practices. * Experience with automated testing, monitoring, and production debugging. * Ability to independently evaluate architectural tradeoffs. * Demonstrated ability to personally write production-quality software.
Highly Valued Experience
Experience involving one or more of the following is valuable, but not required:

 * AWS GovCloud experience, including deployment, migration, or operation of regulated workloads. * GovTech * Regulated enterprise SaaS * Public-sector technology * Security-sensitive applications * Case or workflow management * HR technology * Investigative technology * Document management * Sensitive PII * Enterprise integrations * Event-driven architecture * AI-assisted enterprise workflows
Technical Environment
The final technology stack will be established with the selected technical leader.
Candidates should be comfortable operating in a modern cloud-native environment that may include technologies such as:

 * TypeScript / JavaScript * React / Next.js * Node.js or comparable backend technologies * PostgreSQL * AWS * Docker * Infrastructure as Code * REST APIs * CI/CD * Automated testing * Cloud monitoring and observability
We are not hiring based primarily on framework familiarity.
We care much more about:
architecture judgment · engineering depth · systems thinking · product judgment · security thinking · ability to ship

## Description

KENTECH Consulting Inc. is an award-winning background technology screening company. We are the creators of innovative projects such as eKnowID.com, the first consumer background checking system of its kind, and ClarityIQ, a high-tech and high-touch investigative case management system.
MISSION We're on a mission to help the world make clear and informed hiring decisions.
VALUE In order to achieve our mission, our team exhibits the behaviors and core values aligned with it:
Customer Focused: We are customer-focused and results-driven. Growth Minded: We believe in collaborative learning and industry best practices to deliver excellence. Fact Finders: We are passionate investigators for discovery and truth. Community and Employee Partnerships: We believe there is no greater power for transformation than delivering on what communities and employees care about.
The Opportunity
KENTECH is seeking a Lead Platform Architect / Technical Lead to design and personally help build the technical foundation of a new enterprise software platform.
This is not a traditional enterprise architect role.
It is not a meeting-heavy engineering management position.
And it is not a role where architecture is handed to another team to implement.
We are looking for a senior technologist who can move comfortably between:
business problem * system architecture * data model * API * code * deployment * debugging
The successful candidate will report directly to KENTECH's Founder & CEO and will have meaningful authority over technology architecture, engineering standards, technical decision-making, and the development of the initial engineering team.
Why This Role Is Different
Build - don't inherit
You will have the opportunity to establish the architecture of an important enterprise platform without inheriting years of technical debt or an inflexible legacy stack.
Real customers and real operating knowledge
KENTECH is not attempting to discover whether a market exists.
We have nearly two decades of operational experience, established customer relationships, proprietary intellectual property, and deep institutional knowledge of the problems our technology is designed to solve.
Direct access and authority
You will report directly to the Founder & CEO.
The organization is intentionally keeping the initial engineering team small so that decisions can be made quickly and strong engineers can have meaningful influence.
Help build the team
You will participate in selecting the engineers who will build alongside you and help establish the standards by which future engineers are hired.
Solve consequential problems
The systems we build operate in environments where security, auditability, reliability, data integrity, permissions, privacy, and operational accuracy matter.
What You Will Own
You will:

 * Design the architecture of a secure, scalable, multi-tenant enterprise SaaS platform. * Personally write production software alongside other senior engineers. * Establish domain and data architecture. * Design authentication, authorization, tenant isolation, and role-based permissions. * Establish API and integration architecture. * Design secure handling of sensitive information and documents. * Establish auditability and transaction-history standards. * Define cloud architecture and deployment strategy. * Establish engineering standards, code-review practices, testing standards, and documentation expectations. * Establish CI/CD, observability, monitoring, and production support practices. * Make pragmatic build-vs-buy decisions. * Identify and prevent architectural decisions that create unnecessary long-term technical debt. * Evaluate existing technical assets and make recommendations regarding what should be retained, refactored, or replaced. *
Help recruit, interview, and mentor the initial engineering team. * Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions. * Establish an engineering culture centered on ownership, quality, speed, and accountability.
What We Are Looking For Required Experience


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