Principal Enterprise Architect

About This Role

The Principal Enterprise Architect will influence and shape IT digital strategy, providing tactical architectural direction and collaborating with various stakeholders. This role involves developing and managing technical strategy, overseeing architecture review processes, and leading cloud adoption initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Influence and shape the IT digital strategy and provide tactical architectural direction.
• Collaborate with architects, engineers, and leadership to establish technical standards, reference architectures, design patterns, and decision frameworks.
• Develop and manage technical strategy, ensuring best practices for system design, infrastructure integration, and application development.
• Oversee architecture review processes, including checklist creation, artifact review, and providing domain-specific guidance.
• Lead organizational change for cloud adoption and promote appropriate use of cloud services.
• Design solutions that meet operational requirements for scalability, security, reliability, and more.
• Research emerging technologies; develop proofs of concept and recommend robust and cost-effective technologies.
• Identify and incorporate new technologies, industry trends, and best practices into enterprise policies and roadmaps.
• Translate business strategy into technical strategy and define end-to-end architectures.

Requirements

• 7+ years of IT experience
• Minimum 5 years in enterprise architecture roles
• Prior experience as Principal Architect or Head of Enterprise Architecture in a global organization
• Experience developing technology strategies and working with domain and solution architects
• Expertise in architecture review, process improvement, and enterprise architecture methodologies
• Strong technical writing and documentation skills
• Deep hands-on experience designing, developing, and deploying business software at scale
• Strong background in technology infrastructure, cloud computing, storage, and virtualization
• Experience with API management, microservices, service mesh, and application performance management
• Experience migrating systems from monolithic to microservices in the cloud
• Knowledge of enterprise identity and access management solutions
• Ability to adopt and influence new trends like GenAI/Agentic AI within EA frameworks
• Strong communication skills for presentations across multiple levels (IT, business leadership, architects, developers)

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field. Master’s degree in Computer Science preferred.
• 7+ years of IT experience, with minimum 5 years in relevant enterprise architecture roles. Prior experience as Principal Architect or Head of Enterprise Architecture in a global organization.

Nice to Have

• Master’s degree in Computer Science
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional or equivalent
• Enterprise Architecture Certification (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman, Gartner)
• 3-5 years of Enterprise Architecture and AWS experience
• Airline industry experience

Skills

* Required skills

Certifications