Solution Architect Principal

Job Summary:

Responsible for defining and leading the enterprise-wide solution architecture strategy. Connects business objectives, product strategies, and technology direction to ensure solution architectures enable measurable business outcomes and enterprise agility. Provides strategic leadership across the federated solution architecture community to drive simplification, reuse, and modernization of technology platforms. Partners with Enterprise Architecture and senior technology leaders to establish frameworks, governance, and practices that accelerate delivery and enable consistent, secure, and scalable solutions across the company. Serves as a trusted advisor to executives and product leadership, guiding investment decisions, platform strategy, and architecture alignment across the enterprise.

Key Responsibilities:

Defines and leads the enterprise solution architecture vision and strategy, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture principles, frameworks, and target-state roadmaps. Provides strategic leadership to mature the solution architecture discipline, frameworks, and operating model across the company. Leads cross-domain solution architecture initiatives that drive modernization, simplification, and reuse across platforms, integrations, and applications. Partners with Enterprise Architects and Principal Solution Architects to establish and govern standards, patterns, and reusable components adopted across federated delivery teams. Provides strategic oversight and architectural direction for major transformation programs, ensuring consistency, scalability, and performance across domains and geographies. Advises senior business and IT executives on solution architecture strategy, technology investments, and modernization priorities that deliver measurable business value. Defines and tracks enterprise-level architecture metrics, including adoption, reuse, simplification, and speed-to-market improvements, to demonstrate architecture value realization. Leads collaboration across Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, and product teams to align delivery roadmaps to target architectures and enterprise capabilities. Influences enterprise technology direction through deep expertise in modern architecture patterns, including cloud-native, API-led integration, composable design, and event-driven platforms. Represents Solution Architecture in enterprise governance forums, ensuring cross-domain architectural alignment and contribution to the overall architecture operating model. Mentors Principal and Senior Solution Architects, fostering collaboration, architectural excellence, and the continuous advancement of architecture capability and maturity across the organization. Competencies: Security & Compliance Principles - Applies standards, tools, and best practices to embed security, privacy, and compliance into the design/build/test/operate lifecycle for products, services, apps, systems, software, and configurations—balancing protection, efficiency, and cost. Data Principles - Governs, models, secures, implements, and observes data flows to ensure integrity, quality, and compliance—enabling trusted, scalable, cost-conscious data use. Solution Design - Translate business requirements into integrated designs, architectures, patterns, and system interactions that deliver customer value and align with enterprise standards and subject-matter platforms. System Architecture- Creates and evolves architecture system blueprints developing reusable patterns and roadmaps to ensure scalability, resilience, security, and long-term efficiency. Business Architecture - Structures capabilities, value streams, processes and operating models that translate strategy into executable designs, guide investment and transformation decisions, and deliver strategic results. Strategic Roadmap Planning - Develops globally tuned, multi-year roadmaps that connect vision to execution—sequencing investments with capacity, risk, and measurable benefits. Demonstrating Mastery - Maintains essential knowledge and proficiency in relevant domains, tools, technologies, methodologies, or frameworks through targeted credentials and rigorous proficiency, future-proofing organizational skills against strategic needs. Strategic and Innovative Thinking - Evaluates business and technology trends, anticipates future needs, develops creative approaches, and frames innovations to shape strategy and create durable value with cost-aware innovation. Technical Passion & Drive - Models curiosity and excitement for technology by self-initiating continuous development, experimenting with emerging technologies, and identifying insertion opportunities that accelerate business performance. Driving Effective Outcomes - Takes ownership, acts with urgency, and initiates action to turn goals into clear plans, decisions, guardrails, and cadences while navigating ambiguity and change to drive momentum and deliver consistent results. Engaging with Impact - Communicates with clarity and purpose to align stakeholders, foster collaboration, build trust, and influence coordinated action across teams and functions to accelerate outcomes. Values Differences - Recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization. Ensuring Customer Success - Embraces a customer-first mindset to deliver outcomes by linking customer needs and business priorities to aligned solutions, delivery, adoption, satisfaction, and realized value through sustained engagement that builds partnership and trust. Education, Licenses, Certifications: College, university, or equivalent degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, or related subject, or relevant equivalent experience required. This position may require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations. Experience: 15+ years of experience in architecture leadership within large, complex organizations. Demonstrated success defining and leading solution architecture strategies within an enterprise architecture function, establishing frameworks and governance, and delivering measurable transformation outcomes. Proven ability to influence executive decision-making, guide enterprise investments, and build architecture maturity across a federated organization. Recognized thought leader with expertise in modern solution architecture. Competencies: Security & Compliance Principles - Applies standards, tools, and best practices to embed security, privacy, and compliance into the design/build/test/operate lifecycle for products, services, apps, systems, software, and configurations—balancing protection, efficiency, and cost. Data Principles - Governs, models, secures, implements, and observes data flows to ensure integrity, quality, and compliance—enabling trusted, scalable, cost-conscious data use. Solution Design - Translate business requirements into integrated designs, architectures, patterns, and system interactions that deliver customer value and align with enterprise standards and subject-matter platforms. System Architecture- Creates and evolves architecture system blueprints developing reusable patterns and roadmaps to ensure scalability, resilience, security, and long-term efficiency. Business Architecture - Structures capabilities, value streams, processes and operating models that translate strategy into executable designs, guide investment and transformation decisions, and deliver strategic results. Strategic Roadmap Planning - Develops globally tuned, multi-year roadmaps that connect vision to execution—sequencing investments with capacity, risk, and measurable benefits. Demonstrating Mastery - Maintains essential knowledge and proficiency in relevant domains, tools, technologies, methodologies, or frameworks through targeted credentials and rigorous proficiency, future-proofing organizational skills against strategic needs. Strategic and Innovative Thinking - Evaluates business and technology trends, anticipates future needs, develops creative approaches, and frames innovations to shape strategy and create durable value with cost-aware innovation. Technical Passion & Drive - Models curiosity and excitement for technology by self-initiating continuous development, experimenting with emerging technologies, and identifying insertion opportunities that accelerate business performance. Driving Effective Outcomes - Takes ownership, acts with urgency, and initiates action to turn goals into clear plans, decisions, guardrails, and cadences while navigating ambiguity and change to drive momentum and deliver consistent results. Engaging with Impact - Communicates with clarity and purpose to align stakeholders, foster collaboration, build trust, and influence coordinated action across teams and functions to accelerate outcomes. Values Differences - Recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization. Ensuring Customer Success - Embraces a customer-first mindset to deliver outcomes by linking customer needs and business priorities to aligned solutions, delivery, adoption, satisfaction, and realized value through sustained engagement that builds partnership and trust. Education, Licenses, Certifications: College, university, or equivalent degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, or related subject, or relevant equivalent experience required. This position may require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations. Experience: 15+ years of experience in architecture leadership within large, complex organizations. Demonstrated success defining and leading solution architecture strategies within an enterprise architecture function, establishing frameworks and governance, and delivering measurable transformation outcomes. Proven ability to influence executive decision-making, guide enterprise investments, and build architecture maturity across a federated organization. Recognized thought leader with expertise in modern solution architecture.