Director, Platform Software Architect – MethaneTrack™ SaaS product

Position Overview: As a Software Architect, you will play a critical leadership role in shaping the future of our IIoT platform. You will guide architectural decisions across the stack, ensuring performance, scalability, security, and reliability as we scale number of connected devices and multi-region deployments. This role requires deep technical expertise in cloud architecture, IIoT systems, and software design best practices. You will work closely with engineering, product, and DevOps teams to refine our architecture, accelerate development velocity, and maintain technical excellence as we grow. Key Responsibilities: Architectural Leadership Own the evolution of the platform’s architecture to support scale, performance, and availability. Lead design of modular, cloud-native microservices, data pipelines, and APIs. Champion architectural standards, tech debt management, and scalability best practices. Evaluate and select appropriate technologies and frameworks. Collaborate with product and engineering leads to translate business goals into product roadmaps and architectural designs. Software Development Process: Guide the team in defining and improving the software development life cycle (SDLC). Champion best practices in code quality, CI/CD pipelines, testing, and documentation. Establish and maintain architectural governance processes, including design reviews and code audits. Agile Methodologies: Define, implement, and continuously improve engineering workflows (e.g., CI/CD, code review, branching strategies, testing practices). Actively participate in Agile processes (e.g., sprint planning, retrospectives etc.). Collaborate closely with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and development teams to ensure architecture aligns with Agile delivery goals. Support continuous integration, continuous delivery (CI/CD), and DevOps practices. Governance & Standards: Establish and enforce best practices in software development, documentation, testing, deployment, and monitoring. Define architectural principles and software development standards to ensure consistency and quality across teams. Drive technical governance and compliance with security, performance, and scalability requirements. Platform Scale & Performance Identify and resolve bottlenecks in data ingestion, processing, and delivery pipelines. Design for high-availability and low-latency, especially in bandwidth-constrained oilfield environments. Guide multi-tenant architecture enhancements to support enterprise onboarding and secure data isolation. Industrial Integration Deployment to multiple clouds, on-prem and inside of customer deployments. Design integrations with LDAR, CMMS and other systems used in the industry. Integrations with customers message buses like Kafka, MQTT etc. Collaborate with edge engineers to ensure resilient, secure edge-to-cloud and cloud-to-edge communication in the field. Security & Reliability Enforce security practices across the platform, including encryption, authentication, and access controls. Contribute to compliance and operational resilience (SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST, etc.). Team Collaboration Work cross-functionally with engineering, DevOps, and product teams to align technical design with product goals. Work with Sales and Product management to provide customer focused insights on UI and user experience. Communicate architectural decisions to technical and non-technical stakeholders. Mentor developers and contribute to architectural reviews and high-impact technical decisions. Build upon pull requests for thorough code reviews.