As a System Architect at CI&T, you will shape the end-to-end systems behind digital products for clients in the United States. You’ll partner with engineering teams and client stakeholders to turn business needs into secure, scalable, observable, and cost-effective solutions. Advanced or fluent English is essential for collaborating with international teams and clients throughout the workday.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end architectures spanning applications, data, integrations, infrastructure, and networking
• Translate business and non-functional requirements into technical designs, and contribute to discovery, solution proposals, and estimates
• Design cloud environments using AWS, GCP, or Azure, including networking, firewalls, routing, VPNs, virtualization, and containers
• Promote Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform and Ansible
• Define CI/CD pipelines, Git branching strategies, and package, image, and container registries
• Integrate security practices and automated testing into delivery workflows
• Establish standards for monitoring, logging, alerting, service-level objectives, capacity planning, and disaster recovery
• Estimate infrastructure costs and identify opportunities to optimize them as usage grows
• Design APIs and secure integrations with external platforms, including CRMs and ERPs
• Guide and mentor engineers, review designs and code, and encourage knowledge sharing
• Identify technical risks, develop mitigation plans, and document architecture decisions and implementation guidance

Required qualifications

• Experience designing end-to-end systems across applications, data, integrations, infrastructure, and networking
• Ability to assess trade-offs involving scalability, availability, performance, security, and cost
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Familiarity with networking concepts, virtualization, and containers
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or Ansible
• Knowledge of CI/CD, Git workflows, observability, reliability practices, and secure system integrations
• Advanced or fluent English communication skills

Preferred qualifications

• Experience supporting technology discovery, pre-sales proposals, or solution estimates
• Experience defining service-level objectives, capacity plans, and disaster recovery strategies
• Experience mentoring engineers and communicating architecture decisions to technical and non-technical audiences

What we’re looking for
You bring a systems-thinking approach, communicate technical decisions clearly, and collaborate effectively with engineers, security teams, DevOps, and client stakeholders. You’re comfortable identifying risks early and guiding teams toward practical, reliable solutions.