Principal Platform Architect

Job-:
Engineering

Location:

Atlanta, GA, United States

Schedule:

Full time, Day Posted:
About the Role The Forge Platform team is seeking a visionary and hands-on Principal Platform Architect to define and drive the platform architecture strategy. You will establish technical direction, guide strategic investments, and create reusable capabilities that improve product delivery, developer experience, and operational excellence.

You will influence architecture and engineering decisions across teams through expertise, collaboration, and clear communication.

What You'll Do Define the Platform Vision Own the architecture, vision, principles, and long-term technology roadmap for the Forge Platform.

Develop reference architectures, standards, and reusable design patterns that enable consistency and scale.

Drive cloud-native, API-first, event-driven, and microservices-based architectural approaches.

Align platform evolution with product priorities, business outcomes, and enterprise technology strategy.

Lead Technical Direction and Governance Serve as the principal technical authority for platform architecture decisions and complex design challenges.

Lead architecture reviews and establish pragmatic governance, standards, and engineering guardrails.

Guide teams on scalability, resilience, security, performance, maintainability, and technical debt.

Drive architectural consistency and reuse across products, services, and engineering teams.

Advance Cloud and Platform Engineering Define patterns for cloud-native development, deployment, and operations across Azure, AWS, GCP, or hybrid environments.

Shape architecture for Kubernetes, containers, CI/CD, Dev Sec Ops , infrastructure-as-code, automation, and observability.

Enable secure, highly available platform services, APIs, identity capabilities, and self-service developer experiences.

Establish approaches for reliability, performance, disaster recovery, and operational readiness ve Innovation and Organizational Influence Evaluate emerging technologies and lead proofs of concept for strategic platform investments.

Advance capabilities in AI/ML enablement, data integration, analytics, automation, and intelligent services.

Partner with Engineering, Product, Security, Infrastructure, Operations, and Enterprise Architecture teams.

Communicate architecture strategy, tradeoffs, and decisions to technical and executive stakeholders.

Mentor architects, principal engineers, technical leads, and senior engineers.

Qualifications Must Haves Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related technical field.
12+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, or architecture roles.
5+ years of proven experience architecting and delivering enterprise-scale software platforms. 7+ years of expertise in distributed systems, APIs, microservices, event-driven architectures, and integration patterns. 3+ years of experience with at least one major cloud platform:
Azure, AWS, or GCP. We Value Master's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field.

Experience building or scaling an internal developer platform, SaaS platform, or enterprise digital platform.

Experience with AI/ML platforms, data ecosystems, or advanced analytics capabilities.

Expertise in security architecture, Dev Sec Ops , SRE, and enterprise architecture governance.

Experience with Kubernetes, containers, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, automation, and observability.

Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction across multiple teams without direct authority.

Excellent communication, systems thinking, and stakeholder engagement skills.

Relevant cloud or architecture certifications.

What Success Looks LikeA clear, actionable Forge Platform…