Principal Software Architect - Upstream Planning

Location: Houston, Texas or Dallas, Texas or USA - Remote
Model of Work: Hybrid if located in Houston, TX or Remote with Travel if the work location is US – Remote

Overview

Reporting to the Chief Technology Officer (CTO), the Principal Architect is the most senior individual-contributor technical authority within the Product Innovation & Engineering (PIE) function. This role sets the technical direction for a secure, resilient, and scalable global SaaS platform that supports a diversified portfolio of energy-focused software products, many of which originated from acquired technology stacks. The Principal Architect operates as a force multiplier across the organization — translating the CTO’s multi-year technology strategy into concrete reference architectures, standards, and modernization roadmaps. This leader works hands-on across product, engineering, security, and cloud operations teams to reduce complexity, accelerate delivery, and converge the portfolio toward a consistent, cloud-native target state. Influence is exercised primarily through deep technical expertise, sound judgment, and credibility rather than through direct people management.

Responsibilities

• Enterprise & Platform Architecture
  • Own the end-to-end target architecture across a diversified, multi-product SaaS portfolio, ensuring consistency, extensibility, and scalability
  • Define reference architectures, patterns, and blueprints that accelerate delivery across global engineering teams
  • Lead high-impact, cross-cutting architecture decisions and resolve the most complex technical trade-offs spanning multiple products and teams
  • Translate the technology strategy into concrete architectural roadmaps and platform investment recommendations with measurable outcomes
• Architecture Governance & Standards
  • Establish and steward architectural guardrails, standards, and review processes that enable faster, safer execution without becoming a bottleneck
  • Lead architecture review forums and evaluate significant designs, RFCs, and platform changes against agreed principles
  • Embed security-by-design, reliability, and operational excellence into architectural standards across all products
  • Define and track architectural health metrics, and drive measurable, continuous improvement across the portfolio
• Platform Modernization & Technical Debt
  • Lead the modernization of legacy and acquired platforms toward a converged, cloud-native target state
  • Define pragmatic, staged modernization paths that balance customer value, delivery velocity, and risk
  • Actively identify, prioritize, and reduce systemic technical debt critical to long-term scalability and margin
  • Support M&A technical due diligence, platform consolidation, and post-acquisition integration efforts
• Data, AI & Scalable Differentiation
  • Architect scalable data and AI-enabled platform capabilities that are pragmatic, governed, and directly tied to customer value
  • Partner with data and product teams on data platform architecture, including large-scale data processing, analytics, and high availability
  • Guide responsible, well-governed AI adoption, balancing innovation with explainability, security, and risk management
• Technical Leadership & Influence
  • Serve as a trusted technical advisor to the CTO, engineering leadership, and the broader architecture community
  • Mentor and develop senior engineers and architects, raising the technical bar across the PIE organization
  • Build alignment and drive adoption across product, engineering, security, and infrastructure teams, influencing without direct authority
  • Represent the technology organization as a credible senior technical voice in customer, partner, and due-diligence conversations

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in software engineering and architecture, including senior or principal-level architecture roles in SaaS organizations
• Deep, hands-on expertise in platform architecture, distributed systems, and modern cloud-native technologies (e.g., containers, microservices, event-driven architectures, and public cloud)
• Proven track record designing, scaling, and evolving large-scale, multi-tenant SaaS platforms in production
• Demonstrated success establishing architectural standards, governance, and reference patterns adopted across multiple teams
• Experience leading platform modernization, consolidation, and technical-debt reduction across complex or acquired systems
• Strong background in data platforms, analytics, and/or AI-enabled capabilities
• Strong commercial mindset with the ability to balance technical depth against speed, cost, scalability, and risk
• Clear, credible communicator capable of influencing senior engineers, executives, and enterprise customers, and explaining complex trade-offs to varied audiences
• And other duties as assigned

Preferred Skills

• Experience with energy-sector software, industrial data platforms, or operational technology-adjacent systems
• Experience supporting M&A technical due diligence and post-acquisition platform integration
• Hands-on experience embedding security-by-design and compliance in regulated, data-intensive industries

Pay

Salary commensurate with experience ($155,000 - $225,000 US Dollars) with bi-weekly pay via direct deposit.

Additional Details

• Background Check: The successful candidate will need to successfully complete the following clearances: Criminal History Check, Education Verification, Employment Verification, Driver’s License Verification and passport/ID validation.
• Visa Sponsorship: Employment eligibility to work with Quorum Software in the United States is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for this position. The successful candidate will be required to ensure they maintain and renew any visas or permits that grant employment eligibility where applicable.

About Quorum Software

Quorum Software connects people and information across the energy value chain. Twenty years ago, we built the first software for gas plant accountants. Pipeline operators came next, followed by land administrators, pumpers, and planners. Since 1998, Quorum has helped thousands of energy workers with business workflows that optimize profitability and growth. Our vision for the future connects the global energy ecosystem through cloud-first software, data standards, and integration. The trusted source of decision-ready data for 1,800+ companies, Quorum Software makes the essential connections that let us work better together in the connected energy workplace.