We are seeking a visionary, disruptive, and highly agile Chief Architect to define and drive the next generation of our platform’s architecture. Reporting directly to the Head of Engineering, you will be our primary AI evangelist, challenging the status quo and seamlessly embedding evolving AI capabilities into our core systems.
Operating in the dynamic Identity, Access Management, and Device Management space you will architect high-scale solutions, conduct deep competitive analysis, and provide strategic technical guidance to leadership. As a deeply experienced technologist and a natural mentor, you will inspire our engineering teams, ensuring we remain nimble, innovative, and ahead of the curve in a rapidly changing technological landscape.
Key Responsibilities:
Architectural Disruption & Design: Continuously evaluate our existing platform architecture and suggest/implement transformative design changes to leverage the latest advancements in AI.
AI Evangelism & Strategy: Act as the internal and external champion for AI. Challenge legacy mindsets, drive a culture of disruptive innovation, and articulate a clear AI vision that aligns with our business goals in the Identity space.
Technical Leadership & Guidance: Serve as the trusted advisor and strategic partner to the Head of Engineering and executive leadership, translating complex AI developments into actionable product and engineering strategies.
Scale & Performance: Architect robust, scalable, and secure AI-driven systems capable of handling massive data volumes and high-traffic identity workflows globally.
Mentorship & Team Building: Be a force multiplier for our technical teams. Provide hands-on mentorship, foster a culture of continuous learning, and elevate the technical capabilities of individual contributors and engineering managers.
Competitive Analysis & Market Positioning: Keep a pulse on the rapidly evolving AI and Identity/Directory-as-a-Service markets. Conduct deep technical competitive analyses to ensure our architecture and AI features outpace industry rivals.
Agile Adaptation: Maintain a nimble approach to architecture. Pivot and adapt technical strategies quickly as new AI models, frameworks, and security requirements emerge.
Required Qualifications:
Deep AI Expertise: 15+ years of software engineering/architecture experience with at least 4+ years dedicated to deep AI integrations.
Domain Expertise in Identity Space: Proven experience in the Identity and Access Management (IAM), Directory-as-a-Service (DaaS), Zero Trust, or endpoint management domains (comparable to JumpCloud, Okta, Ping Identity, etc.).
Massive Scale Experience: A strong track record of designing, building, and maintaining distributed cloud architectures and data pipelines that operate reliably at massive scale.
Disruptive & Nimble Mindset: Demonstrated ability to be an "agent of change." You are highly adaptable, agile, and comfortable pivoting architectures to adopt cutting-edge technologies.
Exceptional Mentorship & Leadership: Proven experience elevating the teams around you. You are known as a technical leader who leads by influence, coaches individual engineers, and upskills entire organizations.
Executive Communication: The ability to distill highly complex technical concepts into clear, strategic guidance for the Head of Engineering and C-suite leadership.
Analytical Prowess: Strong capability to dissect competitors' products, anticipate industry trends, and translate those insights into architectural advantages.
Preferred Qualifications:
Public Thought Leadership: Experience speaking at industry conferences, publishing technical papers, or maintaining a strong presence as an AI/Tech evangelist in the open-source community.
Security & Privacy Background: Deep understanding of data privacy laws (GDPR, CCPA), AI ethics, and data security—critical for integrating AI into identity systems.
Hands-on Coding Proficiency: While this is an architectural role, the ability to jump into the code (Python, Go, Rust, or similar) to build rapid proof-of-concepts (PoCs) is highly desirable.
Cloud Native Mastery: Advanced certifications or deep expertise in AWS, GCP, or Azure AI ecosystems and cloud-native orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker).
Experience in High-Growth Startups: A background of successfully navigating the ambiguity and rapid growth phases of a hyper-growth tech company.
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Skills Required
- 15+ years of software engineering or architecture experience
- 4+ years of deep AI integration experience
- Experience in Identity and Access Management, Directory-as-a-Service, Zero Trust, or endpoint management
- Experience designing and maintaining distributed cloud architectures and data pipelines at massive scale
- Demonstrated adaptability and experience driving architectural or organizational change
- Experience mentoring engineers and elevating technical organizations
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to engineering and executive leadership
- Strong competitive analysis and industry trend analysis capabilities
- Public speaking, technical publishing, or open-source AI and technology evangelism
- Understanding of GDPR, CCPA, AI ethics, data privacy, and data security
- Hands-on coding proficiency in Python, Go, Rust, or similar languages
- Expertise in AWS, GCP, or Azure AI ecosystems
- Expertise in Kubernetes and Docker
- Experience working in high-growth startups
- Fluent spoken and written English
- Ability to participate in on-call shifts
- Located in and authorized to work in India
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JumpCloud’s mission is to Make Work Happen®, providing simple, secure access to an organization’s technology resources from any device, or any location. The JumpCloud Open Directory Platform gives IT, security operations, and DevOps a single, cloud-based solution to control and manage employee identities and their devices, and apply conditional access controls based on Zero Trust principals. Since launching in 2012, our global user base has grown to more than 150,000 organizations, with more than 5,000 paying customers including Cars.com, GoFundMe, Grab, ClassPass, Uplight and Peloton. JumpCloud has raised over $400M from world-class investors including Sapphire Ventures, General Atlantic, Sands Capital, Atlassian, and CrowdStrike. Our teams are growing fast, too, and we're looking for talent across engineering, sales, customer success, marketing, product management, and more. Join our team of dedicated, passionate, and creative people who are eager to change the IT industry forever. We live by our core values which are: Build Connections Think Big 1% Better Every Day
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