Senior Principal Software Architect

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

📋 Description

• Lead, mentor, and cultivate the software architecture team.

• Provide guidance and oversight for architectural decisions across various products, platforms, and shared services.

• Establish and uphold architecture standards, principles, and governance procedures.

• Act as the primary technical authority within the organization for software architecture.

• Potentially oversee software architects or other personnel, including coaching, performance management, and talent development.

• Design solutions that are enabled for AI.

• Define and advance the long-term architecture for shared cloud platform services and edge-based software systems.

• Drive the development of scalable, secure, reliable, and reusable platform capabilities that support multiple products and future SaaS offerings.

• Define interaction patterns and responsibilities across cloud and edge environments.

• Ensure that solutions are designed with a security-first and systems-level viewpoint.

• Lead efforts to modernize the platform, enhancing consistency, reuse, scalability, and development efficiency.

• Identify and minimize duplicated functionality, technical complexity, and architectural fragmentation.

• Advise on technology decisions that align with long-term business and product strategies.

• Assess the technical aspects of build, buy, and partner opportunities.

• Recommend solutions based on architectural compatibility, scalability, integration complexity, security, and maintainability.

• Ensure that selected solutions are in line with the long-term direction of the platform.

• Collaborate with Software Strategy, Product Management, Engineering, and Business Development to align architecture with organizational objectives.

• Foster alignment across teams and encourage consistent architectural practices throughout the organization.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.

• Over 10 years of experience in software architecture, platform engineering, distributed systems, or related technical leadership roles.

• Experience in designing and evolving large-scale cloud, SaaS, or hybrid cloud/edge platforms.

• Proven experience in leading, mentoring, and developing architects or other senior technical professionals.

• Strong knowledge of distributed systems, API-based architectures, software modernization, and platform engineering.

• Experience in designing solutions that incorporate AI capabilities.

• Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction across multiple teams and organizations.

• Excellent communication, leadership, problem-solving, and collaboration skills.

• Fluent in English, both written and verbal.

• Applicants must be 18 years of age or older.

• Must be eligible to work in the U.S.

• Daktronics does not sponsor, renew, or extend immigration visas for this position.

• Familiarity with tools such as Microsoft Azure DevOps, AWS, Git, GitHub Copilot, and Microsoft Teams.

• Experience with device ecosystems, telemetry platforms, lifecycle management, or real-time control systems.

• Experience supporting SaaS transformation and platform-based product strategies.

• Familiarity with Daktronics products, systems, or development environments.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible opportunities.

• Competitive compensation.

• Meaningful benefits.

• US-based home office opportunity.