Senior Enterprise Principal Architect

Role Overview

• Lead solution shaping and technical win strategy for complex modernization pursuits from discovery through close.
• Run executive discovery to surface desired outcomes, constraints, nonfunctional requirements, and key risks early.
• Translate discovery into clear solution options, architecture narratives, and multi year roadmaps with phased transformation plans.
• Define scope boundaries, assumptions, dependencies, and acceptance criteria to reduce ambiguity at close and kickoff.
• Identify architectural, security, and feasibility risks during presales and drive specific mitigations into proposals and commercial terms.
• Serve as a trusted executive technology advisor across strategic accounts.
• Set credible technology vision and transformation strategy that executives can fund, sequence, and govern.
• Frame decisions in business terms by clearly explaining options, tradeoffs, and risk.
• Set technical direction across enterprise modernization spanning applications, cloud platforms, and data and artificial intelligence.
• Make principled tradeoffs across speed versus quality, custom build versus platform, and innovation versus stability.
• Step in when decisions are contested or delivery risk rises, restore clarity, and align teams on a path forward.
• Establish clear decision making under uncertainty using lightweight decision frameworks and written decision records.
• Create and scale reference architectures, solution playbooks, and guardrails that improve pursuit speed and delivery consistency.
• Contribute to consulting offerings and accelerators that are deliverable at scale and aligned with market demand.
• Provide thought leadership through client forums and executive briefings.
• Align with Microsoft field teams and partner stakeholders to strengthen joint solutioning and pursuit execution.
• Mentor senior architects and technical leaders through influence and hands on guidance.
• Track emerging technology and industry shifts and translate them into practical client options.
• Turn innovation into clear recommendations, pilot approaches, and phased adoption paths that balance value, risk, and operational readiness.

Requirements

• Proven experience leading solution shaping and technical win strategy for complex modernization pursuits, from discovery through close.
• Deep expertise in Microsoft Azure architecture, including enterprise scale adoption, governance, security, and integration.
• Experience setting technical direction for enterprise modernization across applications, cloud platforms, and data, including governance and operating model implications.
• Demonstrated ability to surface architectural, security, and feasibility risks early and drive clear mitigations into proposals and plans.
• Strong executive communication skills with the ability to translate technical decisions into business impact, constraints, and risk.
• Track record resolving contested decisions and restoring momentum when ambiguity rises.
• Experience leading through matrix influence across account, engineering, security, and delivery stakeholders.
• Willingness to travel up to 25 percent as needed.
• Maintain, or be willing to obtain and maintain, relevant professional certifications.

Tech Stack

• Azure
• Cloud

Benefits

• Flexible work location with a virtual first approach to work!
• 401(K) with match up to 50% of your 6% contributions of eligible pay
• Generous PTO providing a minimum of 15 days in addition to 9 paid company holidays and 2 floating personal days  
• Two medical plan options to allow you the choice to elect what works best for you!
• Option for vision and dental coverage
• 100% employer paid coverage for life and disability insurance
• Paid leave for birth parents and non-birth parents
• Option for Healthcare FSA, HSA, and Dependent Care FSA
• $67.00 monthly tech and home office allowance
• Utilization and/or discretionary bonus eligibility based on role
• Employee Assistance Program to help with everyday challenges