Principal Architect (.NET, Oracle, Javascript)

We are looking for an experienced Principal Architect in New Jersey to shape the long-term technical direction of enterprise applications and shared platform capabilities. This role combines strategic architecture leadership with hands-on technical contribution, helping teams modernize complex systems and align product development with a scalable, secure, and unified technology landscape.

Responsibilities

• Set the architectural vision for enterprise platforms and translate that vision into a clear future-state roadmap across products and engineering groups.
• Design a centralized data and shared services platform that supports identity and access capabilities, integration services, master data management, search, APIs, analytics, governance, and reusable platform components.
• Create reference architectures, technical patterns, and phased implementation plans that enable teams to adopt new capabilities incrementally.
• Guide the modernization of legacy and mission-critical applications through staged architectural approaches that protect operational continuity.
• Reduce duplication across systems and processes by defining scalable shared services, streamlined integrations, and consistent data flows.
• Build and validate key technical components, proofs of concept, and prototypes to support architectural decisions.
• Partner with engineering teams to ensure solution design and delivery choices are aligned with enterprise standards, security expectations, and long-term platform goals.
• Establish effective architecture review practices, decision frameworks, and engineering standards that improve reliability, observability, maintainability, performance, and scalability.
• Encourage thoughtful adoption of AI-assisted development practices and AI-enabled technical solutions where they provide measurable value.
• Advise and mentor senior engineers while clearly communicating architectural direction and tradeoffs to both technical and executive stakeholders.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or comparable practical experience.
• At least 10 years of experience in software engineering with a strong record of designing enterprise applications, platforms, or large-scale modernization programs.
• Demonstrated ability to define technical strategy across multiple products, platforms, or business domains.
• Strong hands-on background developing, reviewing, and guiding implementation of critical platform and application components.
• Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders without direct managerial authority.
• Solid understanding of enterprise data platforms, APIs, search technologies, integration patterns, master data management, and data governance practices.
• Experience with modernization approaches such as domain-driven design, service-oriented architecture, event-driven systems, and phased migration strategies.
• Familiarity with technologies such as .NET, Oracle, JavaScript, React, Python/FastAPI, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, message queues, observability tools, and cloud or hybrid environments.

Benefits

• Medical, vision, dental, and life and disability insurance for contract/temporary professionals.
• Eligibility to enroll in our company 401(k) plan for contract/temporary professionals.