Principal Product Architect

Responsibilities

• Evaluate long-term business needs and align them with the overall system architecture.
• Lead strategic architectural decision-making to support future capabilities.
• Collaborate with product owners to brainstorm, define, and design effective solutions.
• Provide technical leadership to architect and design products.
• Establish and uphold technical standards across the platform.
• Mentor development leads and architects across the organization (influence without direct management).
• Ensure applications and environments are secure to industry and BIW standards, and that we have strategies and processes to remain secure.
• Partner with DevOps and Infrastructure teams to align application and infrastructure strategies.
• Interact with and influence all members of product teams including product owner, engineering manager, front and back-end developers, QA, UX/designers, management.
• Play a key role in incident response and resolution of critical issues.
• Stay informed about emerging technologies—evaluate their potential, and lead integration where appropriate.

Requirements

• Proven experience architecting and designing cloud-native, microservices-based platforms.
• Hands-on experience with modern technology stacks, including: JavaScript, Java, Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, PostgreSQL, CDNs, CI/CD pipelines.
• Deep understanding of agile methodologies and modern software development practices.
• Strong communication skills, capable of engaging both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to mentor and guide senior technical talent.
• Experience implementing AI product solutions and using AI for productivity.

Qualifications

• Security & Platform Health Focus
• Ensure all applications and environments are: Secure -- aligned with industry and BIW security standards Performant -- delivering fast and consistent user experiences Observable -- with logging, tracing, and monitoring for proactive insights

Pay

Base Salary Range: $180,000.00 to $220,000.00. The final salary and offer will be determined by the applicant's background, experience, and skills.

Schedule

We work a hybrid model (3 days in the office and 2 days work from home).