Principal Architect | Strategic Enterprise Architecture

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Skills you'll use

What you'll do

• Own and maintain the portfolio target-state architecture and rolling three-year technology roadmap, aligned with business priorities, product strategy, engineering plans, and enterprise transformation goals.
• Serve as the named strategic architecture partner and single point of EA accountability for the assigned portfolio, building trusted working relationships with Product, Engineering, Operations, Data Science, Security, and business leadership.
• Create and maintain business-capability, domain, application, data, and platform maps that expose ownership, dependencies, duplication, maturity gaps, lifecycle risk, and opportunities for simplification or growth.
• Translate strategic priorities into clear architecture outcomes, transition states, investment options, sequencing recommendations, and measurable decision criteria.
• Guide platform-placement and build-versus-buy decisions, balancing enterprise reuse and standards with appropriate portfolio autonomy, speed, cost, resilience, and client commitments.
• Define and contribute reusable reference architectures, patterns, guardrails, and decision trees, including patterns for AI, Generative AI, agentic AI, data, integration, cloud, security, and observability.
• Drive adoption of approved architecture standards and bring standards, reference architectures, major exceptions, and cross-functional decisions through the lightweight EA governance process for ratification.
• Own visibility of portfolio architecture risks, strategic exceptions, technical debt, capability gaps, and cross portfolio dependencies; ensure actions, owners, and escalation paths are clear.
• Partner with the Solution Architecture pillar to triage architecturally significant demand, shape initiatives early, and ensure delivery-level learning feeds back into portfolio strategy, standards, and roadmaps.
• Assess emerging technologies and market shifts, especially AI and agentic commerce, and convert relevant signals into adoption guidance, controlled experiments, investment recommendations, and roadmap implications.

Who can apply

• Partner with the Solution Architecture pillar to triage architecturally significant demand, shape initiatives early, and ensure delivery-level learning feeds back into portfolio strategy, standards, and roadmaps.
• Assess emerging technologies and market shifts, especially AI and agentic commerce, and convert relevant signals into adoption guidance, controlled experiments, investment recommendations, and roadmap implications.
• Enable self-service architecture by creating high-quality, reusable content for NIQ architecture knowledge repositories and supporting AI-enabled access to standards, patterns, decisions, and portfolio views.
• Establish and run an effective operating cadence, including strategic portfolio reviews, intake alignment with Solution Architecture, reference artifact alignment with the Architecture Practice, and architect-only sessions to drive capability and domain consistency.
• Define outcome-oriented measures for the portfolio, such as roadmap adoption, reuse, simplification, risk reduction, decision cycle time, standards adoption, and value realized from technology investments.
• Support M&A due diligence and integration planning by assessing capability fit, architecture compatibility, technology risk, redundancy, security considerations, and potential integration paths.
• Mentor architects and engineering leaders, communicate complex decisions clearly, and influence across organizational boundaries without relying on direct authority.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

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