System Architect

Senior Systems Architect

Location: Fort Worth, TX 76102 | Remote: Hybrid remote, 3 days in the office weekly

Employees: 5,000 | Team Size: 50

Industry: SaaS, FinTech, Payments | Financial Information: $2B in revenue for 2023

Reports To: EVP & CIO

Seeking a Senior Systems Architect to lead the design, deployment, and lifecycle support of enterprise technology platforms, with a strong emphasis on Linux-based environments. This is a highly technical position and requires broad expertise across infrastructure, networking, security, and systems optimization.

Responsibilities:

• Document work activities, systems updates, resolutions, and project notes within the enterprise ticketing platform.
• Develop and execute both long-term architectural strategies and short-term tactical plans.
• Implement high-risk changes with precision and discipline to minimize disruption.
• Appy and maintain security controls aligned to compliance frameworks (PCI, DSS).
• Rapidly adapt to evolving business and technology needs, recommending and implementing relevant solutions.
• Maintain and enhance system documentation, policies, diagrams, and procedures to reflect current engineering standards.
• Define project requirements and review vendor statements of work for initiatives.
• Gather technical requirements and assess vendor deliverables, including reviewing statements of work (SOWs)
• Carry out system upgrades, migrations, and replacements prior to end-of-support deadlines.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology with 5 years of professional experience experience.
• 6 years experience managing virtualized infrastructure environments, including private and/or public cloud infrastructure.
• Deep expertise in hyper-converged platforms and enterprise storage technologies.
• Hands-on knowledge of modern threat protection tools and application firewalls (WAF solutions).
• Advanced understanding of network infrastructure, including firewalls, routing, switching, and software-defined networking.
• Understanding of site reliability engineering (SRE) concepts and resilience practices (fault injection, chaos testing).
• Experience with site reliability engineering practices and chaos engineering methodologies.
• Expertise with enterprise applications, middleware, servers, and load balancing solutions.
• Proven ability to scale systems both horizontally and vertically.
• Familiarity with structured change management processes.
• Willingness to participate in 24x7 on call rotation support.

Benefits: Health, dental, vision plans, strong PTO

Compensation: $140 - 150K bonus opportunity