Senior Principal Architect Platform Engineering

Our world is transforming and PTC is leading the software brings the physical and digital worlds together enabling companies to improve operations create better products and empower people in all aspects of their business.

Our people make all the difference in our success. Today we are a global team of nearly 7000 and our main objective is to create opportunities for our team members to explore learn and grow all while seeing their ideas come to life and celebrating the differences that make us who we are and the work we do possible.

Sr. Principal Architect - Platform Engineering-Hybrid San Ramon CA

We are seeking an exceptionalSr Principal Architect Platform Engineeringto lead the architecture design and technical direction of our existingplatform this role you will assess the current architecture of the platform identify opportunities for modernization and drive improvements that elevate performance reliability developer experience and organizational adoption.

This position requires a seasoned deeply hands-on architect withstrongJava Groovyengineering experience strong data modeling expertise inSnowflakeandPostgreSQL and a proven track record of enabling platform adoption at scale. You will shape the platforms longterm architectural direction while remaining hands-on with design and implementation.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead Platform Architecture & Roadmap

• Develop a deep understanding of the current platform and drive its architecture codebase stewardship operational excellence and longterm roadmap
• Perform in-depth platform assessments identifying gaps technical debt and architectural improvement opportunities
• Establish architectural patterns standards and guardrails to ensure platform consistency and long-term maintainability
• Design and construct an enterprise-grade data platform that supports middleware integration AI agent and operational workflows and data-driven product capabilities
• Architect robust PostgreSQL relational models optimized for transactional systems
• Design scalable performant and efficient Snowflake data models schemas and pipelines
• Apply bestpractice data modeling techniques including normalization dimensional modeling star schemas and graph schema design to support scalable and flexible data platforms

Driving Platform Adoption

• Increase platform usage and adoption across engineering teams by delivering clear value improving usability and establishing platform blueprint
• Partner with application teams to onboard them onto the platform address friction points and incorporate feedback into platform evolution
• Develop documentation reference implementations and integration guides to accelerate adoption

Technical Leadership

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable secure and maintainable solutions
• Provide architectural guidance for platform extensions migrations integrations and new capabilities
• Mentor senior engineers and contribute to raising architectural maturity across teams

Required Qualifications:

• 12 years of professional software engineering experience including 5 years in architecture roles
• Ability to commute to the office 2 days a week in San Ramon CA
• Deep hands-on experience with Java & Groovy(core Java concurrency distributed systemsmicroservices)
• Proficiency withSpring Frameworkand modern Java libraries
• Proven expertise designing and implementing data models inSnowflakeandPostgreSQL.
• Strong understanding of modern cloud environments (AWS Azure or GCP) and cloudnative patterns.
• Demonstrated experience building largescale distributed platforms or core shared services.
• Strong knowledge of API design streaming event-driven architectures and integration patterns.
• Ability to produce clear architecture artifacts (diagrams standards roadmaps)
• Ability to provide technical leadership drive architecture decisions and mentor engineers

PreferredQualifications:

• Experience in utilizing AIdriven tools and platforms to enhance the software development lifecycle and improve engineering productivity
• Experience in designing and building data platform services leveraging graph databases (e.g. Neo4j Amazon Neptune or similar) for complex relationship modeling and query optimization

Life at PTC is about more than working with todays most cutting-edge technologies to transform the physical world. Its about showing up as you are and working alongside some of todays most talented industry leaders to transform the world around you.

If you share our passion for problem-solving through innovation youll likely become just as passionate about the PTC experience as we are. Are you ready to explore your next career move with us

We respect the privacy rights of individuals and are committed to handling Personal Information responsibly and in accordance with all applicable privacy and data protection laws. Review our Privacy Policy here.