Client Principal, Telco, Media, Entertainment, Gaming & Software

About the role

The Role: Principal Architect, Digital Services (TMEGS)

Responsibilities

• Drive Digital Services Sales.
• Partner with sales and technical architecture teams, executing against the account's technical sales strategy to meet revenue objectives through adoption of Presidio Digital Services – application modernization, application development, software development lifecycle (SDLC), artificial intelligence (AI), and data estate and platform modernization.
• Understand Customer Current State. Proactively drive discovery and understanding of customer IT current state, goals, outcomes, and initiatives across Business, Technical, Operational, and Financial facets. Research industry trends and topics and develop discovery approaches. Develop and lead workshops to drive relevant discovery. Document customer current state to assist customer and sales teams target future state architectures and roadmaps. Translate findings into a clear narrative that connects current-state gaps to the outcomes the client actually cares about.
• Technical Opportunity Leadership. Own relevant service opportunities to achieve technical win of Presidio services solutions. Identify customer stakeholders and their individual success criteria and needs. Create and lead technical solution approaches and next steps aligned to customer stakeholders. Align, vet and coordinate Presidio technical resources as needed. Engage Manager/VP/Director level at clients directly.
• Solution Architecture, Design and Documentation. Analyze and assess client requirements and determine target services approach, solutions, and roadmaps. Create and deliver compelling technical proposals directly to clients, including relevant drawings, diagrams and analysis.
• Technical Excellence & Evangelism. Maintain a high level of technical excellence and evangelism across multiple relevant solution architecture and product areas. Steward the curation and delivery of relevant technical knowledge, presentations, and conversations at all client levels and customer-related events. Actively participate in technical champion programs and communities. Attain certifications when appropriate. Learn, discuss and present new and emerging relevant topics to internal stakeholders and clients.
• Account Stewardship. Actively participate in client account related activities that establish your role as a trusted advisor internally and with customers, such as: Account planning, EBCs, social events, etc.
• Team Engagement and Enable Culture. Engage Presidio team members, actively participate in team activities, and contribute on collaboration tools to drive an open, positive, inclusive, resilient, change-orientated team culture. Be a steward of the PRESIDIO CORE VALUES –Excellence, Forward-Thinking, Accountability, One Presidio.
• Partner Relationships. Develop working relationships with vendor partner teams and peers, prioritizing the hyper-scaler cloud solutions and relevant ecosystems. Contribute to and drive execution of relevant partner vendor GTM strategies.
• Continuous Improvement & Innovation. Actively plan and execute growth and career development activities. Seek and collaborate on improvements to presales processes and GTM.
• Enable Others. Contribute to the success of others in sales and presales. Actively mentor and enable others. Share methods, content, and lessons learned with others.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience and/or military experience
• Overall 10+ years of relevant experience
• 7+ years of architecture, design, implementation, and/or consulting in digital and/or cloud technologies
• 5+ years of specific domain experience in one or many of the following: application modernization, application development, software development lifecycle (SDLC), artificial intelligence (AI), Generative AI (GenAI), and data estate modernization and modern data platforms
• 5+ years hands-on experience with at least one hyperscaler cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Demonstrated comfort leading presentations, solution demonstrations and whiteboard sessions at the Manager, Director, and VP level
• Aptitude for consultative presales: be curious and creative, and comfortable navigating ambiguous, early-stage client conversations
• Growth mindset and drive for trying new ideas and actively seek mentoring and coaching
• Collaborative style and the ability to work with diverse set of stakeholders
• Expert time management and ability to set expectations in a timely manner
• Ability to provide timely feedback loops to leadership

Skills

• Experience with streaming/OTT media platforms — multi-CDN delivery, adaptive bitrate, DRM, media supply chain and asset management (MAM), and content ingest/transcode pipelines (e.g., AWS Media Services, MediaConvert, Media Lake)
• Experience with AI-driven content operations — automated metadata tagging, highlight/clip generation, content moderation, and personalization/recommendation engines for streaming and broadcast audiences
• Experience with fan engagement and monetization platforms — second-screen experiences, real-time stats/data feeds, loyalty and ticketing integrations, ad-supported (AVOD/FAST) and hybrid subscription monetization models
• Familiarity with sports data/analytics pipelines — real-time odds and stats feeds, computer vision for player tracking, or broadcast enhancement tooling
• Experience with AWS Solution Architecture level certifications
• Experience in delivering modern application architectures such as micro services, event driven
• Experience in software engineering or code development
• Experience with artificial intelligence (AI) solutions and deployments – including LLMs, GenAI methods (RAG, etc.), agentic frameworks (LangGraph, AutoGen, crewAI, etc.), AI workflow low code/no code tools (n8N, Copilot Studio, etc.)
• Experience with reviewing and/or writing statements of work (SOW)
• Experience and/or ability to prepare RFP/RFI response, proposals, and solutions