Principal Architect

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of reference architecture, cross-team technical standards, architectural governance, decision-making processes, interoperability patterns, and significant technical trade-off analyses.

• Lead relevant technical coverage spanning cloud and DevSecOps engineering, data engineering, data governance, metadata specialization, BI and analytics development, AI/ML platform engineering, security engineering and compliance, API services, partner integrations, and domain architecture.

• Direct the architecture for platform-first delivery, endorsed technology direction, infrastructure as code, governed data trust patterns, API-first reuse, secure data sharing, AI-driven service patterns, public-facing dashboards, and transition-ready artifact management.

• Collaborate with customer stakeholders, cloud and platform partners, security and privacy representatives, data owners, product teams, and downstream consumers regarding architecture reviews, environmental modifications, source onboarding, integrations, public-facing launches, and critical technical decisions.

• Create and maintain architectural artifacts within customer-accessible systems, including reference architectures, decision records, diagrams, standards, runbooks, interface documentation, joint operating agreements, service guides, data-flow documentation, and transition materials.

• Assess new or significantly altered services against criteria such as security, privacy, accessibility, cost transparency, observability, operational readiness, metadata maturity, AI governance, portability, and reuse.

• Support joint operating agreements and cross-platform coordination for interfaces between source systems and downstream systems, ingestion lead times, schema and metadata modifications, incident boundaries, release dependencies, security and privacy responsibilities, support handoffs, and transition tasks.

• Advocate for out-of-the-box, native, reusable, open-source-aware, and portable solutions while reducing unnecessary proprietary dependencies and steering clear of contractor-managed external data systems.

⛳️ Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in software engineering.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Mathematics, or another relevant scientific or technical field.

• All candidates must successfully pass public trust clearance through the U.S. Federal Government.

• Proven capability to lead architecture for intricate cloud, data, analytics, API, AI/ML, or digital platform ecosystems involving multiple teams and stakeholders.

• Experience in establishing reference architectures, technical standards, architectural governance, decision records, interoperability patterns, and technical trade-off recommendations.

• Proficient understanding of cloud architecture, lakehouse or equivalent data platforms, governance layers, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, observability, identity and access management, API patterns, data sharing, dashboard platforms, and AI/ML enablement patterns.

• Ability to incorporate security, privacy, accessibility, data usage, Government data rights, portability, reuse, and transition-readiness constraints into architectural decisions.

• Experience coordinating architecture across product, engineering, data, AI, BI, security, support, and external integration teams in a transparent agile delivery environment.

• Familiarity with federal system delivery expectations such as FISMA, NIST-based controls, FedRAMP-authorized cloud services, ATO support, access reviews, and continuous monitoring.

• Capacity to adhere to customer-specific security, privacy, accessibility, quality, training, and data-handling requirements for assigned systems and data.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.

• 401(k) retirement benefits.

• Paid time off.

• Paid holidays.

• Life and disability insurance.

• Additional wellness and employee support programs.