This position requires office presence of a minimum of 5 days per week and is only located in the location(s) posted. No relocation is offered.

AT&T will not hire any applicants for this position who require employer sponsorship now or in the future. 

Join AT&T and help shape the communications and technology platforms that connect customers, employees, and business capabilities at scale. The Technology Services organization advances information technology performance by delivering secure, reliable, and efficient solutions that improve business outcomes and end user experience. In this role, you will translate business strategy into practical, scalable, and operable technology designs while partnering across product, engineering, security, infrastructure, operations, and executive stakeholders. When you step into a career with AT&T, you will not just imagine the future, you will help create it.

What You'll Do

As a Principal Solution Architect, you will serve as a senior technical authority responsible for defining solution architecture, design standards, integration patterns, and technology direction for complex enterprise platforms. You will connect business needs to secure, scalable, resilient, and maintainable technology solutions while guiding teams through delivery, governance, and operational readiness.

Key responsibilities include:

• Convert business objectives, customer experience needs, operational constraints, and compliance requirements into clear solution architecture decisions.
• Lead end-to-end architecture across applications, APIs, data, cloud platforms, integrations, security, observability, and operations.
• Develop reusable reference architectures, integration patterns, design standards, architecture decision records, and roadmaps that improve consistency across teams.
• Architect secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-effective enterprise solutions that support mission-critical applications and business capabilities.
• Guide API strategy, service boundaries, event-driven patterns, data flows, system interactions, and platform integration across complex ecosystems.
• Partner with product, engineering, infrastructure, operations, cybersecurity, vendors, and business stakeholders to align technology decisions with enterprise priorities.
• Provide architecture governance through design reviews, risk assessments, tradeoff analysis, technology selection, and delivery checkpoints.
• Drive operational excellence by embedding availability, reliability, performance, disaster recovery, monitoring, incident readiness, and supportability into designs.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, modernization opportunities, automation capabilities, and technical debt reduction strategies with a practical business lens.
• Mentor architects and engineers, influence technical direction without relying on formal authority, and build shared confidence around complex architecture decisions.

Core skills this role is expected to demonstrate:

• Business acumen: Connect architecture choices to revenue, cost, customer experience, delivery risk, and operational outcomes.
• Systems thinking: Understand upstream and downstream impacts across applications, data, APIs, infrastructure, security, and operations.
• Technical foundation: Guide engineering decisions across modern application, cloud, integration, data, automation, and platform technologies.
• Architecture and design: Apply architecture patterns, design principles, service boundaries, domain modeling, and fit-for-purpose technology choices.
• Communication: Explain complex designs clearly to executives, business partners, engineers, vendors, and support teams.
• Leadership without authority: Influence decisions, resolve disagreement, create alignment, and move cross-functional teams toward execution.
• Integration expertise: Design REST APIs, event flows, messaging, identity integration, SaaS connectivity, and enterprise interoperability patterns.
• Security mindset: Build authentication, authorization, privacy, auditability, compliance, and secure-by-design principles into architecture.
• Operational excellence: Plan for resilience, observability, performance, supportability, incident response, capacity, and disaster recovery.
• Decision making under uncertainty: Make practical tradeoffs across scope, cost, risk, time, technical debt, future flexibility, and business value.

What You'll Need

• 7+ years of experience designing, architecting, and delivering large-scale enterprise technology solutions.
• Strong hands-on background in software engineering, enterprise applications, APIs, c