Senior Principal Software Architect – Enterprise Platforms

Senior Principal Software Architect Enterprise Platforms

We are conducting a confidential search for a Senior Principal Architect to lead the design and delivery of a new enterprise platform supporting high-volume customer and transaction operations.

You will own the architecture from initial design through production launch. The environment requires real-time processing strong security complex integrations dependable performance and the ability to operate at significant scale. This is an architecture leadership position with direct influence over technology selection engineering standards and delivery rather than an advisory-only role.

This is a very hands-on role including working with the code.

What Youll Own

• Establish the architectural direction for a new enterprise transaction platform.
• Translate business and operational requirements into scalable system designs technical roadmaps and implementation standards.
• Guide the platform through design development testing deployment and production launch.
• Design distributed applications using microservices event-driven architecture cloud-native services and appropriate serverless patterns.
• Architect for high transaction volumes real-time data processing resilience security and operational continuity.
• Lead integrations with payment services customer-management systems external platforms and enterprise APIs.
• Evaluate technologies frameworks databases and development tools based on performance reliability security and maintainability.
• Identify architectural bottlenecks and guide performance optimization across applications integrations and data services.
• Establish engineering standards conduct architecture and code reviews and ensure development teams follow the agreed design.
• Work closely with engineering enterprise architecture DevOps security product UX and business operations.
• Mentor senior engineers and communicate technical decisions clearly to executives business leaders and technical teams.

Required Experience

• 10 years of software engineering experience including substantial responsibility for enterprise application architecture and technical leadership.
• Direct experience designing or modernizing large-scale high-availability transaction or customer operations platforms.
• Demonstrated ownership of a major software platform from inception through production launch.
• Deep knowledge of distributed application patterns including microservices event-driven systems high-availability architecture and cloud-native design.
• Strong development background using one or more of the following: Java C# Python or JavaScript.
• Experience with frameworks such as or .
• Advanced knowledge of relational and NoSQL database architecture transactional data performance tuning and data consistency.
• Experience deploying applications on AWS Azure or Google Cloud.
• Background integrating complex third-party systems payment platforms and APIs.
• Working knowledge of application security payment-card data protection privacy engineering and secure software design.
• Strong understanding of Agile delivery automated testing CI/CD DevOps and production support.
• Ability to lead technical teams and explain complex architectural decisions to technical and nontechnical audiences.

Education and Eligibility

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or a related discipline or equivalent relevant experience.
• An advanced degree or architecture-related certification is beneficial.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States.