Director, Principal Architect – Agentic Engineering

🔥 13 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $200k - $315k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🖥 Software Engineer

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Vista Equity Partners

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2000

💼 Consulting

💸 Finance

🏢 Enterprise

Consulting • Finance • Enterprise

Vista Equity Partners is a leading investment firm that focuses on software, data, and technology-enabled businesses. The firm employs a long-term investment strategy, aiming to create value through operational improvements and strategic growth. Vista is recognized for its expertise in helping portfolio companies enhance their operations and drive innovation in their respective markets.

📋 Description

• Lead technical execution of agentic engineering transformations at select Vista portfolio companies, from initial assessment and proof of concept through implementation, scale, and handoff • Assess engineering environments, including repository readiness, existing AI adoption, infrastructure gaps, and opportunities for high-impact use cases • Work hands-on with portfolio company engineers to build and implement agentic engineering capabilities, including knowledge layers, agents, orchestration, evaluations, guardrails, and observability • Diagnose and resolve technical challenges across repositories, workflows, agent configurations, and evaluation frameworks • Develop reusable reference architectures, agent libraries, technical standards, evaluation frameworks, and implementation patterns for use across the Vista portfolio • Establish controls for identity, permissions, evaluation, auditability, escalation, and human-in-the-loop decision making • Evaluate AI platforms, models, development tools, and orchestration technologies while maintaining vendor independence • Partner with portfolio company CTOs and engineering leaders to establish sustainable internal capabilities and operating models • Enable Vista teams and portfolio company engineers to apply the Agentic Engineering Factory framework • Establish technical standards and acceptance criteria for external system integrators and delivery partners

🎯 Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in production software engineering, including experience at the Principal Engineer, Distinguished Engineer, Senior Architect, or comparable level • Demonstrated architecture ownership across multiple engineering teams or business units, with experience establishing technical standards at enterprise scale • Proven track record leading multi-quarter technical implementations and delivering production systems within complex organizations • 2+ years of hands-on, production use of frontier AI development tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or equivalent technologies • Experience building production agentic systems, including orchestration, tool use, memory, evaluation frameworks, and human-in-the-loop design • Deep experience working with brownfield enterprise environments, including legacy codebases, monoliths, multi-repository environments, and complex compliance requirements • Strong cloud infrastructure expertise across AWS, Azure, and/or GCP, including CI/CD, containerization, observability, and security controls • Demonstrated ability to build reusable platforms, frameworks, standards, or internal products adopted beyond your immediate team • Ability to communicate effectively with both deeply technical audiences and senior executives • Experience with developer productivity measurement, system integrators, consulting, private equity operating environments, or large-scale organizational transformation is preferred • Willingness to travel up to 50%

🏖️ Benefits

• Annual cash bonus • Comprehensive benefits package