Principal Architect

Define and drive the organization's overall technical architecture and technology strategy. Design scalable, secure, reliable, and high-performance enterprise applications. Establish architectural standards, design principles, and engineering best practices. Lead architecture reviews and evaluate technology choices for long-term business needs.

Design distributed systems, microservices, APIs, and cloud-native applications. Collaborate with engineering leaders, product managers, business stakeholders, and cross-functional teams. Guide cloud adoption, modernization, and digital transformation initiatives. Evaluate emerging technologies, frameworks, and tools to improve system capabilities.

Ensure solutions meet security, compliance, availability, and performance requirements. Identify architectural risks, technical debt, and scalability challenges and develop mitigation strategies. Provide technical leadership and mentorship to architects, developers, and engineering teams. Define integration strategies across enterprise applications, databases, and external platforms.

Oversee proof-of-concept initiatives and validate architectural decisions. Support capacity planning, disaster recovery, and business continuity strategies. Communicate architectural decisions and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Requirements

Extensive experience in software architecture, system design, and enterprise application development. Strong knowledge of microservices, distributed systems, event-driven architecture, and API design. Expertise in cloud platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud. Strong understanding of programming languages such as Java, Python, C#, or JavaScript.

Experience with databases, data modeling, caching, and message brokers. Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and DevOps practices. Strong understanding of cybersecurity, identity management, and application security. Experience with system performance optimization, scalability, and high availability. Familiarity with architecture patterns, design principles, and enterprise integration.

Excellent technical leadership, stakeholder management, and communication skills.