Chief Architect

SecurityScorecard

Chief Architect at SecurityScorecard overseeing architectural direction and customer migration efforts. Leading engineering practice evolution towards AI-native development and agentic capabilities.

Posted 5/15/2026full-timeRemote • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed SystemsGRPC

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the architectural direction for both the evolving new platform and the migration of data and customers off the legacy system.
Exercise architectural authority over SecurityScorecard's agentic product capabilities.
Lead the shift toward AI-assisted and agentic development across the engineering organization.
Set and maintain architectural direction across the platform, customer migration, and agentic product features.
Prototype and validate architectural decisions before committing teams at scale.
Partner with the CTO on technical strategy and engineering roadmap.
Manage and develop the Front-end Architect and AI Architect.
Define and maintain system-wide standards, patterns, and documentation.
Mentor senior and staff engineers and measurably elevate technical quality across the org.
Communicate architectural decisions and trade-offs clearly to executives and customers.
Develop and maintain a 12–24 month technical roadmap spanning platform infrastructure, APIs, and data architecture.

Requirements

What you’ll need

12–15+ years of software engineering, with significant time in architectural leadership
Deep expertise in backend architecture, distributed systems, and data flows at production scale
Demonstrated experience scaling platforms already in production
Track record owning large-scale data and customer migrations with smooth end-user outcomes
Strong experience designing REST APIs at scale; familiarity with gRPC
Enough breadth to lead and evaluate a Front-end Architect and AI Architect without owning those domains directly
Ability to communicate complex architectural decisions clearly to executives and customers
Track record of mentoring senior engineers and shaping engineering culture.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health benefits
Stock options
Unlimited PTO
Parental leave
Tuition reimbursements

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Hard Skills & Tools

backend architecturedistributed systemsdata flowsscaling platformsREST APIsgRPCarchitectural directiondata architecturesystem-wide standardstechnical roadmap

Soft Skills

architectural authoritymentoringcommunicationleadershipcollaborationtechnical qualityevaluating talentstrategic thinkingproblem-solvingclear decision-making