Director, Principal Architect – Agentic Engineering

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Lead the technical implementation of agentic engineering transformations at designated Vista portfolio companies, ranging from initial assessment and proof of concept through to implementation, scaling, and handoff.

• Evaluate engineering environments, including repository readiness, existing AI adoption, infrastructure gaps, and identify opportunities for impactful use cases.

• Collaborate directly with portfolio company engineers to develop and implement agentic engineering capabilities, encompassing knowledge layers, agents, orchestration, evaluations, guardrails, and observability.

• Identify and resolve technical challenges across repositories, workflows, agent configurations, and evaluation frameworks.

• Create reusable reference architectures, agent libraries, technical standards, evaluation frameworks, and implementation patterns applicable throughout the Vista portfolio.

• Set up controls for identity, permissions, evaluation, auditability, escalation, and human-in-the-loop decision-making.

• Assess AI platforms, models, development tools, and orchestration technologies while ensuring vendor independence.

• Collaborate with portfolio company CTOs and engineering leaders to develop sustainable internal capabilities and operating models.

• Empower Vista teams and portfolio company engineers to utilize the Agentic Engineering Factory framework.

• Define technical standards and acceptance criteria for external system integrators and delivery partners.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 12 years of experience in production software engineering, including roles at the Principal Engineer, Distinguished Engineer, Senior Architect, or a similar level.

• Proven ownership of architecture across multiple engineering teams or business units, with experience in establishing technical standards on an enterprise scale.

• A strong history of leading multi-quarter technical implementations and delivering production systems within intricate organizations.

• At least 2 years of hands-on, production experience with advanced AI development tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or equivalent technologies.

• Experience in building operational agentic systems, including orchestration, tool usage, memory, evaluation frameworks, and human-in-the-loop design.

• Extensive experience working within brownfield enterprise environments, including legacy codebases, monolithic architectures, multi-repository setups, and complex compliance requirements.

• Strong expertise in cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and/or GCP, including CI/CD, containerization, observability, and security controls.

• Proven capability to develop reusable platforms, frameworks, standards, or internal products that gain adoption beyond your immediate team.

• Ability to communicate effectively with both highly technical audiences and senior executives.

• Preferred experience in developer productivity measurement, working with system integrators, consulting, private equity operating environments, or large-scale organizational transformations.

• Willingness to travel up to 50%.

🏝️ Benefits

• Annual cash bonus.

• Comprehensive benefits package.