Principal Architect & Engineer

About the role

The Principal Architect and Engineer will be responsible for shaping enterprise technology strategy, leading architecture, design, and implementation of enterprise technology solutions, and working closely with other principals and senior strategic leaders to align with overall enterprise business and technology strategy.

Responsibilities

• Be the primary domain expert and lead technical strategist for API development, platforms, and developer tools.
• Lead and mentor a team of talented engineers in the development of enterprise software services and developer tools that enable and scale execution of a larger overall technology strategy.
• Cater to adoption and operationalization of technical platforms and tools.
• Define and oversee engineering practice and maturity for a team of software and platform engineers, ensuring delivery of high-quality and sustainable software and platform solutions.
• Lead the design, development, and deployment of scalable, high-performance, and secure platforms, with an emphasis on cloud-native solutions.
• Partner with senior leadership, engineering teams, and product managers to make key architectural decisions, ensuring technical feasibility and scalability.
• Stay abreast of emerging technology trends and evaluate their potential to impact our technology stack and overall architecture.
• Champion delivery excellence and the adoption of cloud infrastructure, DevOps practices, microservices architecture, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Ensure adherence to standards, patterns, data privacy regulations, and best practices across all systems and platforms.
• Collaborate with enterprise architects to define standards and design patterns.
• Lead and/or contribute to the evaluation, selection, and implementation of enterprise technologies.
• Publish strategic roadmaps, white papers, and engage peer architects in forming strategies for solving key business and technology imperatives.
• Able to present and articulate strategic initiatives to executive leaders.
• Advocate and practitioner of delivery excellence.
• Participate in talent development and recruiting.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 15+ years of professional software development, architecture, and software-delivery experience.
• Expertise with service-oriented, cloud native, and modernization architectures and patterns.
• Competency with a broad range of technologies including Java, Node.js, .NET/C#, Python, JavaScript, JSON schema design, event-driven, pub-sub, API (GraphQL, REST, gRPC etc.), Database (Relational and/or non -relational).
• Competency with a broad range of web technologies including React, Angular.
• Competency with a broad range of dev ops technologies including IAC (Terraform), containers (Docker/Kubernetes), CI/CD Automation (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub, GitLab).
• Strong understanding and practitioner of software delivery, continuous integration, and continuous delivery concepts and technologies.
• Experience with cloud technologies and services, preferably AWS.
• Proven ability to grow and mentor developers at all levels and in different technologies.
• Proven track record of developing and operating large scale business critical systems.
• Competency with secure programming practices, software delivery, and cloud security principles.
• The ability to collaborate and communicate effectively with business and executive stakeholders.
• The ability to accelerate impact and lead change, create business case and associated financials.
• The ability to participate and respond to technology audits.

Qualifications

• Experience in Enterprise Architecture, with an emphasis on digital transformation and modernization.
• Familiarity with Cybersecurity frameworks, and compliance requirements.
• Experience in leading architecture reviews and governance processes.

Benefits

Two days a week at a Guardian office in Holmdel, NJ, Bethlehem, Pa, New York, NY or Boston, MA.