Principal Architect

Presidio, Where Teamwork and Innovation Shape the Future 
At Presidio, we’re at the forefront of a global technology revolution, transforming industries through cutting-edge digital solutions and next-generation AI. We empower businesses—and their customers—to achieve more through innovation, automation, and intelligent insights. 

The Role

As a Principal Architect, you will serve as the senior-most technical authority on complex, large-scale software delivery engagements. You will design and govern the application architectures, platform foundations, and engineering systems that power how enterprises build and ship software—leading clients from fragmented, legacy delivery models toward modern, cloud-smart practices built on well-structured applications, automated pipelines, and repeatable engineering standards. You will be accountable for application design decisions, integration strategy, platform architecture, and long-term technical direction—while acting as a trusted advisor to client leadership and a delivery partner to Presidio account and practice teams. Whether the engagement centers on modernizing a complex application portfolio, establishing cloud-smart architecture standards, or building the automation and delivery infrastructure that lets engineering teams move with speed and confidence, you will bring the depth, breadth, and presence to lead it.

• Do you have a passion for designing and governing complex application architectures—and the platform and delivery infrastructure needed to bring them to life at scale?
• Do you have a track record of modernizing application portfolios, defining cloud-smart architecture standards, and establishing engineering practices that help teams deliver better software faster?
• Do you have a knack for helping organizations decompose legacy systems, design scalable APIs and microservices, and build the automated pipelines that make continuous delivery a reality?
• Do you thrive for the chance to be consultative while leading the architecture of mission-critical delivery platforms on a trajectory to success?

Responsibilities Include:

• Define and govern end-state application architectures—spanning microservices design, API strategy, data models, integration patterns, and the platform and automation layers that support continuous delivery from development through production
• Lead application architecture reviews, design sign-offs, and code-level technical discussions with engineering teams and client stakeholders—ensuring solutions are scalable, maintainable, secure, and aligned to Presidio reference architectures and industry best practices
• Lead architecture reviews and design sign-offs with client stakeholders, ensuring solutions are defensible, well-documented, and aligned to Presidio reference architectures and industry best practices
• Drive technical excellence across engineering teams: design patterns, test-driven development, clean architecture principles, API-first design, domain-driven design, continuous integration, and GitOps delivery workflows
• Collaborate with business, product, engineering, and operations teams to define requirements, integration approaches, and scalable, reusable application and platform solutions
• Establish and enforce cloud-smart application architecture standards—microservices, event-driven systems, API gateways, service mesh, and containerized workloads—ensuring consistency, reusability, and long-term maintainability across the portfolio
• Own cross-workstream architectural alignment on large programs—ensuring architectural intent is preserved through execution, deployment, and production readiness
• Serve as the senior technical escalation point for complex application, pipeline, or platform issues spanning teams, environments, or client organizations
• Be a hands-on problem solver and lead from the front in continuously exploring new delivery platforms, developer toolchains, and automation technologies
• Assemble and present technology delivery pitches and architectural strategies to senior technical and non-technical executive audiences
• Support pre-sales and solutions teams on pursuits to bring in new business—contributing to SOW development, technical approach design, and proposal reviews
• Work closely with the client engagement partner to improve and expand the client relationship, identifying technical growth opportunities across the account
• Attract and retain diverse and highly skilled engineering talent; mentor arch