Principal Architect

Principal SW, Architect- Scorecard

Mission

Principal Software Architect

Engineering Architecture Technology Group

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership

• Define and evangelize architectural standards, patterns, and best practices that enable scalability, security, and innovation.

• Act as a thought leader for technology strategy, influencing senior executives and engineering leaders.

• Lead architecture reviews and provide guidance to senior engineers and cross-functional teams.

• Partner with product and engineering leadership to align architecture with business priorities and growth objectives.

Technical Ownership

• Design and deliver architecture blueprints and reference implementations for critical initiatives.

• Drive adoption of forward-thinking practices such as microservices, event-driven architectures, cloud-native solutions and agentic frameworks.

• Champion DevSecOps, CI/CD, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices across engineering squads.

• Ensure security and compliance are embedded in all solutions (HIPAA, PCI, SOC 2).

• Foster a technical culture that drives high ambition, accountability, and desire to make an impact.

Execution Delivery

• Plan and execute assigned project initiatives with measurable outcomes.

• Actively participate in implementation, ensuring high-quality, timely delivery in a fast-paced environment.

• Foster a culture of lean Agile practices, continuous improvement, and technical excellence.

• Support participate in deployments

• Be the connective tissue between the cross functional engineering teams for architectural matters.

• Ensure the scrum teams understand and adopt the architectural vision, standards and guidelines.

Ongoing

• Influence enterprise-wide engineering and architecture practices.

• Enable high-performance engineering teams through mentorship and technical leadership.

• Drive next-generation architectural patterns for microservices, integration platforms, and infrastructure as code.

Competencies

• Strategic thinking and execution

• Technical leadership and mentoring

• Influencing without authority

• Stakeholder management and communication

• Problem-solving and decision-making

• Emotional intelligence and collaboration

• Change leadership in high-growth environments

Who We Seek

• 20 years

  of enterprise software engineering experience with proven success in architecture transformations.

• Strong background in

  financial services or FinTech

  (payments, banking, lending preferred).

• Expertise in distributed systems, microservices, cloud-native architectures, and event-driven design.

• Deep understanding of

  Agile delivery

  , CI/CD, DevSecOps, and automated testing practices.

• Hands-on experience with:

• .NET (C#, ASP.NET MVC/WebAPI)

  ,

  Python

  and modern

  JavaScript

  frameworks (React, Angular)

• SQL Server, T-SQL

  , and related data platforms

• Azure DevOps, GitHub

  , and major cloud providers (Azure preferred)

• Infrastructure-as-Code tools (Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet)

• Familiarity with

  AI frameworks and tools

  such as Semantic Kernel, Azure OpenAI, and LangChain.

• Familiarity with security and compliance frameworks (HIPAA, PCI, SOC 2).

• Exceptional communication and leadership skills with ability to influence at all levels.