Top Software Architect Jobs in Denver & Boulder, CO

Defines and evolves software architectures for AR-based aerospace and mission systems. Leads architecture across embedded, real-time graphics, simulation, networking, cloud, edge, AI/ML, and aircraft integration. Establishes standards for secure, scalable, safety-critical software; supports DO-178 compliance, DevSecOps, CI/CD, containerization, and digital engineering. Collaborates with engineering, product, systems, and program teams on technical baselines, interfaces, verification, customer engagements, and proposals.

Designs and leads the architectural strategy for a next-generation sports betting and trading platform. Responsibilities include developing enterprise-scale architecture, roadmaps, governance frameworks, and vision documents; evaluating technical risks through proofs of concept; ensuring adherence to architectural standards; integrating third-party solutions; and aligning stakeholders across departments and leadership teams.

Define multi-generation hardware/software architectures for AI inference silicon, including boot, memory, DMA, scheduling, security, telemetry, and host/device interfaces. Integrate firmware, Linux, runtimes, simulation, and developer tooling; lead architecture reviews; resolve cross-team technical issues; prototype high-risk interfaces; and mentor senior engineers. The role requires deep systems expertise, strong C or C++ skills, and architecture-level ownership across pre-silicon, silicon bring-up, and production software.

Designs and evolves scalable, resilient distributed systems supporting digital experiences. Responsibilities include defining architecture, improving performance and reliability, developing frameworks and engineering standards, contributing hands-on to prototypes and production systems, guiding fault-tolerant and observable designs, conducting design reviews, and influencing cross-functional technical strategy. The role requires mentoring engineers and collaborating with Product, Infrastructure, Platform, and engineering leadership.

Leads architecture for complex mission software and simulation capabilities, defining end-to-end mission data flows, interfaces, models, and software designs. Translates mission requirements into implementable architectures, evaluates reuse opportunities, leads technical trades, guides multidisciplinary implementation teams, and resolves integration issues. Supports lifecycle activities including integration, verification, validation, testing, technical reviews, and program sell-off. Requires strong technical communication and leadership across systems engineering, payload, software, modeling and simulation, and test organizations.

Provides technical leadership for mission software architectures, modeling and simulation capabilities, mission data flows, interfaces, and end-to-end processing. Translates mission needs and requirements into software functions and architectures, evaluates reuse opportunities, leads architectural trades, documents designs, guides implementation teams, and supports integration, verification, validation, testing, and technical program reviews. Collaborates across systems, payload, ground, software, simulation, and test teams.

Leads architecture for unified native mobile and cross-platform systems, scalable personalization and media delivery pipelines, distributed services, APIs, and client applications. Guides multi-team technology strategy, governance, security, privacy compliance, cost optimization, deployments, incident response, and code quality. Mentors engineers, conducts reviews, evaluates technologies, and contributes resilient production code across iOS, Android, cloud, CDN, and data systems.

Develop and support operational processes, documentation, requirements, system integration, deployment, troubleshooting, and sustainment for fielded mission systems. Collaborate with developers, engineers, mission stakeholders, internal teams, and external partners to maintain system functionality, interoperability, and delivery across distributed mission environments.

Provides enterprise software architecture leadership across application portfolios, establishes architecture standards and decision records, advises Agile delivery teams, and improves developer experience. The role aligns application and platform roadmaps, drives secure and cost-effective .NET solutions, leads technical debt remediation and incident architecture reviews, promotes AI-assisted engineering, and partners with infrastructure, platform, and solution architecture teams.

Leads the architecture, development, and evolution of enterprise BI and analytics solutions for healthcare coding and clinical data products. Designs data, semantic, cloud, and distributed-system architectures; builds scalable data pipelines and embedded analytics; establishes engineering standards and governance; evaluates technologies and mentors development teams. The role requires extensive software engineering and architecture experience across AWS or Azure, analytics platforms, data modeling, ETL, security, reliability, and large-scale data processing.

Design and scale distributed, high-availability systems and platform architectures. Define frameworks, tooling, and standards, contribute hands-on to prototypes and production, guide teams on reliability, observability, and operational excellence, and align technical decisions with product and business priorities.

Designs and leads secure, scalable enterprise software architectures and cloud modernization initiatives. The role establishes engineering standards, mentors development teams, and architects platforms using AWS, Kubernetes, microservices, and serverless technologies. Responsibilities include developing AI agents and AI-assisted engineering practices, building Databricks data integration solutions, and implementing identity and access solutions with OAuth2, OIDC, SAML, Okta, and Keycloak. The position is fully remote, requires U.S. citizenship and Public Trust eligibility, and involves less than 10% travel.

Lead cross-cutting architecture for a globally distributed fraud-detection platform. Own end-to-end system architecture, identify scaling and reliability risks, establish API and service standards, guide foundational initiatives, and drive adoption across eight engineering groups. Mentor Staff engineers, lead design reviews, advise executives on technical strategy and risk, establish AI-assisted engineering practices, and remain hands-on with prototypes, documentation, and production issues.

Define scalable SaaS architecture and technical direction while remaining hands-on in software development. Design APIs, integrations, security, and modernization roadmaps; establish engineering standards and DevSecOps practices; write production code; lead architecture and code reviews; coordinate development and QA teams; and ensure secure, accessible, compliant platform delivery.

Provides architectural oversight for complex mainframe software products and mission-critical systems. Designs and validates enterprise architectures, documents components and interfaces, advises technical teams, integrates developer-built components, and communicates with technical, non-technical, and government stakeholders. Requires extensive COBOL and mainframe expertise, healthcare claims and CMS experience, Agile/SAFe knowledge, and ability to obtain Public Trust clearance.

Lead enterprise Salesforce Service Cloud architecture and development for merchant acquisition, onboarding, servicing, fulfillment, and growth. Design scalable platform solutions, integrations, data models, migration strategies, automation, AI capabilities, and DevOps practices. Define technical roadmaps and architecture standards, lead discovery and Agile delivery, document reusable patterns, ensure security and governance, and mentor cross-functional development teams while modernizing customer and contact center experiences.

Provide hands-on technical leadership for Keeper’s cross-platform browser extension architecture. Design secure, scalable solutions using JavaScript and TypeScript; guide extension components, messaging, storage, APIs, native integrations, performance, and reliability. Lead architecture and design reviews, security collaboration, modernization efforts, and cross-functional technical decisions while mentoring senior engineers. The role requires broad full-stack expertise across cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, databases, application security, CI/CD, and modern web technologies.

Architect and develop the spacecraft software platform for Blue Origin’s orbital data centers. Responsibilities include distributed workload orchestration, custom scheduling, container management, control-plane APIs, multi-tenancy, networking, storage, high availability, failure recovery, and resource optimization under power, thermal, and connectivity constraints. The role leads technical strategy, validation, testing, and cross-functional co-design with hardware and application teams.

Designs and develops enterprise and multitenant SaaS applications using Java, Spring Boot, and AWS. Responsibilities include cloud architecture, REST APIs, databases, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, authentication, tenant provisioning, monitoring, security compliance, and performance improvements. The role collaborates with technical and business stakeholders and supports FedRAMP requirements.

Leads end-to-end architecture for cloud applications and platforms, including landing zones, developer platforms, security, governance, cost optimization, data platforms, integrations, observability, resilience, and modernization. Partners with engineering, security, product, data, and enterprise architecture teams to establish standards, guide implementation, review designs, and lead migration initiatives. Provides technical mentorship and promotes cloud-native, platform engineering, SRE, and engineering best practices.

Leads end-to-end architecture for cloud-hosted applications and platforms, including shared platform capabilities, security, governance, cost optimization, data and integration architecture, modernization, observability, and resilience. Partners with engineering, security, product, data, and enterprise architecture teams; reviews designs, establishes standards, guides migrations, evaluates cloud technologies, and mentors engineers and SREs. Requires deep AWS or Azure expertise, cloud-native distributed systems experience, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, security, data platforms, and integration architecture knowledge.

Lead architecture, design, and deployment of scalable, production-grade cloud-native services. Define architectural standards, decouple a monolith into modular services, integrate secure AI/LLM patterns, and partner with engineering and product leaders to balance security, cost-efficiency, observability, and long-term scalability.

The Software Architect will design and implement intelligent document processing and agentic evaluation frameworks, leading architectural direction and coding in Python and Scala/Java.

The role involves leading frontend architecture, defining standards, mentoring engineers, and driving AI-assisted development practices while collaborating with UX and product teams.

As a Software Architect, you will define architectural changes, collaborate on priorities, build and improve code, and train team members.