Lead Architect - Public Sector

About Centific

Centific is a frontier AI data foundry that curates diverse, high-quality data, using our purpose-built technology platforms to empower the Magnificent Seven and our enterprise clients with safe, scalable AI deployment. Our team includes more than 150 PhDs and data scientists, along with more than 4,000 AI practitioners and engineers. We harness the power of an integrated solution ecosystem—comprising industry-leading partnerships and 1.8 million vertical domain experts in more than 230 markets—to create contextual, multilingual, pre-trained datasets; fine-tuned, industry-specific LLMs; and RAG pipelines supported by vector databases. Our zero-distance innovation™ solutions for GenAI can reduce GenAI costs by up to 80% and bring solutions to market 50% faster.

Our mission is to bridge the gap between AI creators and industry leaders by bringing best practices in GenAI to unicorn innovators and enterprise customers. We aim to help these organizations unlock significant business value by deploying GenAI at scale, helping to ensure they stay at the forefront of technological advancement and maintain a competitive edge in their respective markets.

About Job

About the Role

We are building a next-generation Vision AI software platform designed specifically for US-based public sector clients — spanning federal agencies, defense contractors, smart-city programs, and critical infrastructure operators. As our Lead Architect / Head of Architecture, you will be the technical authority shaping every layer of the platform: from constrained edge devices streaming sensor data via MQTT, through GPU-accelerated inference running on NVIDIA hardware, to the cloud-side orchestration and data pipelines that give our clients actionable intelligence.

You will work at the intersection of systems design, security engineering, and product strategy, translating complex government requirements into elegant, scalable architecture — and then ensuring a globally distributed engineering team executes against that vision with coherence and velocity.

Key Responsibilities

Platform Architecture & Technical Leadership

• Own the end-to-end architecture of the Edge AI / IoT platform, defining reference designs, component boundaries, data flows, and integration contracts across edge, on-premises, and cloud tiers.
• Drive adoption of open standards (MQTT, VSS, OPC-UA, ONVIF, etc.) and NVIDIA ecosystem tooling (CUDA, TensorRT, Jetson, NGC) across the product.
• Establish and govern architecture decision records (ADRs), technology radar, and technical roadmap in close collaboration with product management and the CTO.
• Identify and mitigate systemic technical risks — latency, bandwidth constraints, model drift, security boundaries — before they become production incidents.

Security & Compliance