Based in Williamsburg, VA, DataXstream stands as a proud and dedicated SAP partner with over two decades of experience. We are relentlessly focused on innovating, rebuilding, and perfecting the most robust and user-friendly Order Management software available for the SAP ecosystem. As we continue to grow our impact and our team, we’re seeking passionate individuals to join us in shaping the future of enterprise solutions.
Job Summary
We are seeking a Platform Architect (SaaS/Cloud-Native Focus) to drive SaaS platform maturity in a modern, containerized environment. This role focuses on building a robust, secure, and scalable foundation that enables multiple products to thrive with strong application lifecycle management, automation, and operational resilience.
The Platform Architect will balance strategic vision with hands-on engineering, ensuring product teams can deliver innovative features quickly and reliably.
Key Responsibilities
Platform Architecture & Growth
- Define and own the cloud-native platform architecture to support multiple SaaS products.
- Develop patterns for multi-product, multi-tenant deployment models.
- Build scaling strategies to ensure resiliency, high availability, and performance.
- Establish long-term standards for security, upgrades, lifecycle management, and governance in a containerized environment.
Application Lifecycle Management
- Define and implement CI/CD pipelines and automation strategies, leveraging Atlassian Bamboo, Bitbucket, and Jira where applicable.
- Collaborate with DevOps to manage application deployment, scaling, monitoring, and upgrades.
- Establish best practices for backup, recovery, and disaster recovery planning.
- Ensure observability and monitoring frameworks (metrics, logging, tracing) are in place for proactive management.
Implementation & Delivery
- Drive automation of infrastructure and platform provisioning with Infrastructure-as-Code.
- Partner with product teams to ensure platform services align with business and customer needs.
- Support product delivery teams by providing standardized platform services and tooling.
- Directly contribute to customer success and faster product delivery by ensuring platform reliability and efficiency.
Leadership & Collaboration
- Serve as subject-matter expert for the SaaS platform.
- Mentor engineers and establish platform engineering best practices.
- Collaborate with product teams, security, and operations to ensure platform alignment with business objectives.
- Apply critical-thinking and problem-solving skills to challenge assumptions and refine strategies.
Required Qualifications
- Hands-on expertise with Kubernetes and a proven track record designing and running containerized services in SaaS or PaaS environments.
- Deep knowledge of scalability, multi-tenancy, high availability, and security in distributed systems.
- Ability to define RBAC in Kubernetes to manage SOD for internal teams and control access to platform resources for customer access.
- Strong background in backup/restore, lifecycle management, and upgrade strategies.
- Experience with automation/IaC (Terraform, Helm, Ansible, GitOps).
- Solid foundation in Linux, networking, and observability.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with SAP BTP, Kyma, and Kubernetes in enterprise contexts.
- Experience managing BTP services integrated with SAP BTP Kyma runtime (e.g., Cloud Logging, Connectivity/Destination Services, PostgreSQL).
- Experience building platforms in multi-product SaaS/PaaS environments.
- Experience migrating legacy enterprise workloads to cloud-native architectures.
- Knowledge of compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001) for SaaS platform operations.
- Expertise in OpenSearch (or Elasticsearch) for AI/ML data processing and search workloads.
- Familiarity with AI/ML integration patterns using search/indexing technologies.
- Experience working with Atlassian Jira, Bitbucket, and Bamboo for issue management and CI/CD.
Ready to apply?
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DataXstream LLC is an equal-opportunity workplace and an affirmative-action employer. We are always committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. Discrimination is not welcome on the basis of any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we work.
