Principal Architect

Job Title: Principal Architect Hiring FAST!
Industry: Finance
Location: Irving TX NO C2C OR OPTS
Setting: Hybrid Required (Remote is NOT an Option)
Duration: 24 months

Required Qualifications:

• 12 years of software engineering and architecture experience with demonstrated expertise designing systems in Python at enterprise scale
• 12 years of architecting web applications distributed systems and platform solutions using industry-standard frameworks (Django FastAPI Flask)
• 12 years of designing APIs frameworks automation pipelines and distributed systems with a focus on scalability resilience and security
• 12 years with cloud platforms (GCP Azure AWS) or on-prem platforms such as Kubernetes or OpenShift including platform architecture and capacity planning
• 10 years of experience architecting CI/CD pipelines DevOps platforms and release engineering systems including GitHub Actions and reusable workflow design
• Hands-on experience integrating automated security scans into CI/CD pipelines static code analysis (Sonar) SAST (Checkmarx) SCA (Black Duck) and secret scanning (GitHub Secret Scanning) and defining enforceable policy gates for release readiness
• Experience designing and operating deployment automation to OpenShift (OCP) using Harness CD (or equivalent) including promotion approvals and rollback strategies
• 7 years of security architecture experience including DevSecOps application security threat modeling and compliance automation
• 7 years of enterprise architecture leadership defining architecture standards governance frameworks and engineering processes across multiple teams
• Experience utilizing coding assistants (GitHub Copilot) and AI-powered development tools with ability to define organizational adoption strategies .

Desired Qualifications:

• 15-20 years of Python development with deep expertise in modern Python patterns ecosystem and large-scale system design
• 15 years of web application architecture with at least 10 years using the Django web application framework
• 5 years of architecture and development using Wagtail CMS and Wagtail CRX (CodeRed CMS)
• 15 years of designing and implementing testing strategies including unit testing integration testing and test automation using Pytest and related frameworks
• 15 years of code versioning using Git distributed version control system with expertise in branching strategies and repository governance
• 10 years of platform architecture and engineering experience with OpenShift or Kubernetes including multi-cluster and multi-tenant design
• 10 years of CI/CD platform architecture including GitHub Actions (reusable workflows) and enterprise automation at scale
• 10 years of data pipeline architecture and orchestration (Kedro MLFlow Airflow distributed computing)
• 7 years of infrastructure-as-code and GitOps architecture (Terraform Ansible) with enterprise governance patterns
• 7 years of experience with security architecture security tools (SAST DAST (dynamic application security testing) (dynamic application security testing) SCA) threat modeling and compliance frameworks
• 7 years partnering with Enterprise Architecture teams to define standards governance and technology strategy
• Experience defining organizational strategies for AI-enabled Integrated Development Environments (Cursor AWS Kiro)
• Deep familiarity with Spec-Driven Development (GitHub Spec-Kit) API-first design and domain-driven design (DDD)
• Experience with SRE practices observability platform architecture and incident management frameworks
• Proven track record of leading enterprise-scale technical transformations cultural change initiatives and architecture modernization programs
• Experience presenting to and influencing senior technology leadership and executive stakeholders .