Senior Platform Architect (Vibe Architect / Lead)

Chicago, IL, US • Posted 12 hours ago • Updated 12 hours ago

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Computer Science
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DevSecOps
Enterprise Architecture
Facilitation
IT Management
JavaScript
Knowledge Transfer
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Microsoft Azure
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Docker
Onboarding
Pivotal
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Artificial Intelligence
Public Sector
React.js
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Section 508
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Software Engineering
Sprint
Stakeholder Management
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UI
Web Architecture
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Job Title: Senior Platform Architect (Vibe Architect / Lead)

Location: Hybrid 3 days/week onsite at (Chicago, IL); 2 days/week onsite at Zion Cloud Solutions office (Deerfield, IL)

Engagement Type: Full-time contract (13 months)

Supporting the Enterprise Architecture Vibe Coding / AI-Assisted Development practice

Role overview

Zion Cloud Solutions seeks a dynamic, highly credible Senior Platform Architect to lead the AI-Assisted Development (Vibe Coding) practice. This is a client-facing, strategic technical leadership role: the Architect will define standards and governance, run Phase-1 ramp-up, and regularly brief and advise Agency CIOs, executive sponsors, and leadership. The ideal candidate combines deep hands-on cloud and modern web architecture experience with polished executive presence and proven ability to operate at the C-suite level.

Key responsibilities:

Serve as Vibe Architect / Sr. Platform Architect , acting as their day-to-day technical lieutenant for the Vibe Coding practice.
Act as primary technical advisor and representative in meetings with CIOs, executive leadership, and senior agency stakeholders translate technical tradeoffs into business and risk terms for executives.
Define and enforce AI-assisted development governance (system prompts, .cursorrules, prompt libraries), architecture boundaries, and quality gates aligned to DoIT and NIST guidance.
Evaluate/select/configure AI dev toolchains (Cursor, Claude, Gemini), rapid UI platforms, Dockerized environments, and CI/CD/testing frameworks.
Lead Phase-1 ramp up: finalize tooling, pipeline/repo structure, onboarding artifacts, and baseline coding standards.
Lead and participate in AI-assisted feature delivery (Next.js 15, PostgreSQL/pgvector, Azure Entra ID), code reviews, automated test strategies, and sprint demos.
Own Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) and the architectural decision log; present decisions and tradeoffs to the Chief Architect and executive stakeholders.
Provide executive-level status, metrics and recommendations (monthly reports, roadmap updates), and be prepared to present outcomes and ROI to CIOs.
Mentor and coach the delivery team; ensure the practice s outputs are production-grade and transition-ready.
Lead knowledge transfer and author the Vibe Coding Playbook and runbooks for Organization adoption.

Required qualifications:

Bachelor s in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent experience.
10+ years in software engineering/architecture, with 5+ years leading cloud-native architecture and engineering teams.
Demonstrated experience advising and presenting to C-level executives (CIOs) and acting as a trusted technical deputy to senior architects or technology executives.
Hands-on experience with Next.js / modern JavaScript (Node/React) and backend systems using PostgreSQL; familiarity with pgvector/Supabase preferred.
Strong experience with Azure Entra ID / enterprise identity and cloud security best practices.
Practical experience evaluating and integrating AI-augmented developer tooling and large models (Gemini, Claude) into delivery workflows.
Deep DevSecOps competencies: Docker, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, security scanning (TestRigor/Mabl or equivalent).
Demonstrated knowledge of accessibility (Section 508) and enterprise architecture governance; experience authoring ADRs.
Executive presence, excellent verbal/written communication, and polished stakeholder management skills.
Ability to comply with on-site schedule: 3 days/week at Chicago; 2 days/week at ZCS Deerfield.

Preferred qualifications:

Master s degree.
Prior public-sector / state government experience and familiarity with procurement/contracting constraints.
Experience standing up Centers of Excellence, developer enablement programs, or engineering practices.
Familiar with rapid UI generation tools (v0.dev, Bolt.new), semantic/vector search and RAG patterns.
Knowledge of NIST security frameworks and methods to validate/mitigate hallucination or bias in AI outputs.
Competencies & soft skills
Dynamic, persuasive, and strategically minded. Comfortable briefing CIOs and influencing enterprise strategy.
Trusted advisor mindset able to be the trusted advisor to customer during planning, delivery, and transition.
Strong facilitation and negotiation skills; political acuity when engaging cross-agency stakeholders.
Mentorship ability to upskill teams and drive adoption of standards.
Pragmatic balance of speed and governance: accelerate delivery while preventing technical debt and security drift.
Additional information
Candidate will lead Phase-1 ramp up and remain pivotal across the 13-month engagement culminating in knowledge transfer and the Vibe Coding Playbook.

Employers have access to artificial intelligence language tools (“AI”) that help generate and enhance job descriptions and AI may have been used to create this description. The position description has been reviewed for accuracy and Dice believes it to correctly reflect the job opportunity.

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