Job description
Job title: Product Architect
Location: Houston, TX (Onsite/Hybrid)
Duration: 6+ months
Job Description:
·We are looking for an onsite Product Architect to define and evolve the technical vision, architecture, and roadmap for AI-enabled digital products.
·This role requires deep hands-on expertise across Python backend development, API architecture, and React frontend, combined with strong experience in designing scalable, cloud-native products on AWS.
·The Product Architect will work with the offshore team , ensuring that architecture decisions support long-term product scalability, usability, security, and innovation
·He will focus on building AI products for the customer
Key Responsibilities
Product Architecture & Technical Vision
·Own the end-to-end product architecture for AI-enabled full-stack platforms.
·Define and evolve the technical roadmap aligned to product strategy and business outcomes.
·Ensure architectural decisions balance time-to-market, scalability, extensibility, and cost efficiency.
·Establish reference architectures, design patterns, and technology standards for product teams.
Full Stack Engineering Leadership
·Provide architectural leadership for Python-based backend services and API-first product design.
·Define scalable service interfaces, data models, and integration patterns.
·Guide frontend architecture using React, ensuring modularity, reusability, and a consistent user experience.
·Remain hands-on for critical components, prototypes, and architectural spikes.
AI-First Product Design
·Architect AI-enabled product capabilities such as:
·Intelligent workflows and automation
·LLM-powered features and copilots
·Context-aware search and recommendations
·Define patterns for model integration, inference APIs, prompt orchestration, and RAG-based solutions.
·Collaborate with data science and ML teams to productionize AI models within the product.
·Embed responsible AI, security, observability, and governance into the product architecture.
Cloud-Native Platform Architecture (AWS)
·Design cloud-native product platforms on AWS using services such as:
·Compute: EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda
·Data: RDS, DynamoDB, Aurora, S3
·AI/ML: SageMaker, Bedrock, or equivalent services
·Define multi-environment architecture supporting development, testing, and production at scale.
·Drive Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD, and platform automation in partnership with DevOps teams.
·Optimize architecture for performance, reliability, and cost over the product lifecycle.
Product & Stakeholder Collaboration
·Partner closely with the customer to translate product vision into technical capabilities.
·Provide architectural input during product discovery, roadmap planning, and backlog prioritization.
·Act as the technical authority for architecture trade-offs and long-term design decisions.
·Communicate architecture clearly to engineering teams, leadership, and stakeholders.
Required Qualifications
·10+ years of software engineering experience with significant product architecture ownership.
·Strong hands-on expertise in:
·Python backend development
·API and service-oriented architecture
·React frontend architecture exposure
·Proven experience designing and scaling product platforms on AWS.
·Demonstrated experience building AI-enabled or data-driven products in production.
·Strong understanding of:
·Cloud-native and microservices architectures
·Product scalability, versioning, and backward compatibility
·Security, performance, and observability in long-lived products
·Excellent communication and product-centric thinking.
