What are the responsibilities and job description for the Platform Architect position at Paradigm Group, Inc.?
Role: Principal Platform AWS Architect
Work Location: Houston, TX (4 days in office with 1 hybrid day)
Number of Positions: 1
Position Type: Fulltime
Company Description: Automotive
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JOB SUMMARY
You'll architect and build our enterprise platform for data, machine learning, and agentic AI. This is a 100% hands-on technical leadership role — not a theoretical one (think builder, not TOGAF/Zachman framework guru).
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Define architectural patterns, enterprise standards, and engineering best practices
- Write code to add features to the platform in Python and Terraform
- Balance the needs of individual AI use cases against broader platform principles
- Design automated processes for reproducibility, auditability, and traceability
- Apply deep expertise across DevOps, MLOps, CI/CD, and platform automation
- Cut through complex, contradictory information to make sound technical decisions
- Navigate the policy, people, and process dynamics that come with enterprise-scale work
QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science (required)
- 10 years of relevant experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience
- A career that began in software engineering and evolved into architecture by leading teams that built large, multi-tenant, and high-throughput applications
- Expert-level software engineering, Python, and computational algorithms.
- Deep AWS expertise and fluency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, YAML)
- Ability to quickly build expertise in the platform's technologies, such as Databricks, Lang Graph, etc.
- A self-starter mindset — you learn new tech quickly, prove its value with a POC, and build the business case to scale it
TRAVEL REQUIRED
Minimal travel is required for this position (up to 10% of the time and on a domestic basis).
STANDARD BENEFITS
- Medical, Dental & Vision- eligible after 30 days of employment
- 401K company match is 4% 1:1 - starts day one and you vest after 2 years.
- 27 days of PTO in a full year. 10 paid holidays.
- Eligible to participate in vehicle program and performance bonuses
Salary : $180,000 - $220,000