Principal Solution Architect

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

📋 Description

• Deliver architectural direction to feature teams to enhance market speed while minimizing long-term maintenance expenses and ensuring adherence to non-functional and enterprise requirements.

• Facilitate trade-off analysis and decision-making for intricate, high-impact architectural decisions, resolving technical disputes among teams.

• Collaborate in the creation and promotion of reusable patterns, best practices, and reference implementations through proof-of-concepts (POCs), research, and experimentation.

• Establish “paved roads” by defining pre-approved reference architectures that simplify development and promote self-service capabilities.

• Collaborate across various business units and work closely with other architects and technology leaders.

• Serve as a thought leader and strategic advisor to delivery and product teams.

• Champion and evolve the Architecture Review Board (ARB), transitioning from a governance-only model to a focus on enablement.

• Present architectural strategies, designs, and recommendations to both technical and business leadership throughout TNC.

• Define, implement, and continuously enhance architecture processes and governance models.

• Engage with internal and external technology partners to improve TNC’s capabilities and promote the adoption of innovative solutions.

• Contribute to the formulation of cloud, data, and enterprise technology standards to ensure interoperability and alignment with best practices.

• May act as a lead member of a Center of Excellence (CoE), mentoring team members and advancing organizational knowledge in critical technology areas.

• Maintain expertise in current and emerging technologies through training, research, and professional development.

• Stay updated on industry trends, particularly focusing on cloud, data, AI/ML, and advancements in generative AI.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

• 8 years of experience in the Information Technology field with 6 years of recent relevant experience in a cloud environment (AWS / Azure).

• Proven expertise in cloud architecture, including:

• Designing and deploying highly available, scalable, and secure solutions on AWS and/or Azure.

• Developing cloud-native solutions using APIs and services across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS models.

• Effectively conveying cloud concepts and architectures to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Strong understanding of modern architecture challenges and patterns, including:

• Migration to cloud-native, microservices-based, event-driven, and decoupled architectures.

• Driving enterprise data and analytics modernization strategies (e.g., utilizing platforms such as Databricks).

• Enabling the adoption of cloud and AI workloads across the organization.

• Deep comprehension of the Well-Architected Framework, including security and compliance considerations.

• DevSecOps practices, including CI/CD pipeline design and implementation.

• Experience promoting the adoption of generative AI and machine learning capabilities across enterprise systems, utilizing AWS or other leading AI platforms (e.g., Azure AI, Google Cloud, OpenAI).

• Experience designing and implementing AI-enabled enterprise solutions, including LLM-based applications, data pipelines, and modern cloud-native architectures for scalable production deployment.

• Demonstrated capability to lead and mentor technical teams in architecture and solution development.

• Working knowledge across enterprise domains, including application, data, infrastructure, and security architectures.

• Proven ability to build and nurture strong stakeholder relationships.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the capacity to adapt messaging for different audiences.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health care benefits

• Flexible spending accounts

• 401(k) plan with an 8% employer match

• Parental leave

• Accrued paid time off

• Life insurance

• Disability coverage

• Employee assistance program

• Other life and work well-being benefits