Senior Principal Architect, Distributed Technology

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Flexible paid time off Hybrid work schedule 401(K) matching of 100% up to the first 6% with a discretionary supplemental contribution Health & wellbeing benefits Parental Leave benefits Employee stock purchase plan

Job Description About the Team:
The Client Engagement Platforms team is responsible for the strategy, architecture and evolution of the firm's customer engagement technologies. The team manages and develops the platforms and capabilities that support client relationship management, marketing automation, digital engagement and client servicing across the organization. Working closely with business, product and technology stakeholders, the team drives the modernization of customer engagement capabilities and evaluates emerging technologies, including AI-enabled solutions, to enhance client and business outcomes.

The team plays a critical role in defining the future technology landscape that supports how the firm engages, serves and grows its client relationships globally.

About the Role:

As a Senior Principal Architect, you will provide strategic technology leadership across client, distribution and enterprise engagement platforms, helping to shape the firm's future technology landscape. You will define architecture roadmaps, guide platform strategy and establish target-state capabilities that support business growth and evolving client needs. Acting as a trusted advisor to senior business and technology stakeholders, you will influence key technology decisions and ensure alignment to enterprise architecture principles and business objectives.

This role requires deep expertise across CRM, marketing automation, digital experience, content, data, integration and AI-enabled platforms, alongside the ability to lead complex transformation initiatives and drive meaningful business outcomes.

Responsibilities of the Role:

Defining and maintaining technology roadmaps, reference architectures and target-state capabilities across CRM, marketing automation and client engagement platforms.

Establishing the strategic direction for customer engagement technologies, ensuring alignment with business goals and long-term technology strategy.

Evaluating emerging technologies, AI capabilities and industry trends to inform platform evolution and investment decisions.

Partnering with senior business, product and technology leaders to translate business strategy into scalable technology solutions and capabilities.

Leading architecture and design activities for major transformation initiatives, ensuring solutions are secure, resilient, scalable and aligned with enterprise standards.

Driving the adoption of modern architectural patterns, including composable, API-first, cloud-native and AI-enabled solutions.

Establishing governance frameworks, architecture standards and best practices across the client engagement technology estate.

Acting as a recognized subject matter expert and trusted advisor, influencing technology decisions, vendor strategy and future-state platform direction.

Requirements of the Role:

Significant experience in enterprise, solution or platform architecture roles…