Product Architect

Overview

Job title: Product Architect

Location: Houston, TX (Onsite/Hybrid)

Duration: 6+ months

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
.

They will focus on building AI products for the customer.

• 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, and 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 product ionize 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, Dynamo
      
      DB, Aurora, S3
    • AI/ML:
      Sage Maker, 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 Dev Ops 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.

• 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 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.