Lead Principal Platform Software Engineer - Vienna VA

Job Description

We are looking for a highly skilled Solution Architect to join our team supporting a strategic customer's cloud transformation initiatives. The Solution Architect will be responsible for designing enterprise-grade technology solutions that enable business capabilities while ensuring security, scalability, resiliency, and operational excellence.

The successful candidate will collaborate with business leaders, application teams, infrastructure engineers, SaaS Product and Consulting teams, and cloud platform providers to develop solution architectures that align with enterprise standards and long-term technology strategy.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and design sessions for enterprise applications, platform and infrastructure.

• Translate business and technical requirements into scalable solution architectures.

• Design secure, highly available, and resilient cloud solutions using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).

• Develop architecture diagrams, technical documentation, and implementation guidance.

• Evaluate existing environments and recommend modernization strategies.

• Define networking architectures including VCNs, DRGs, Load Balancers, DNS, security zones, and hybrid connectivity.

• Establish shared observability frameworks and rollout policies adopted by numerous teams; manage deprecation risk.

• Collaborate with infrastructure, networking, database, Dev Ops, and application development teams throughout project delivery.

• Conduct architecture reviews and provide governance throughout the project lifecycle.

• Identify technical risks and recommend mitigation strategies.

• Support disaster recovery, business continuity, and high-availability solution designs.

• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend improvements to existing architectures.

• Mentor engineering teams on architecture best practices and cloud-native design patterns.

• Collaborates with stakeholders internally and externally to lead efforts to understand customer issues, root causes, and mitigation to align and explain rationale behind solutions.

• Must provide expert technical guidance and support to customers regarding customer-reported issues to mitigate recurrence.

• Acts as an advisor to advocate for customers' interests and suggests product enhancements and solutions based on feedback.

• Networks across lines of business to ensure customer satisfaction through timely resolution of issues and effective communication.

• Leads project initiatives for periodic maintenance and testing operations for systems that require upgrading or patching (e.g., for critical vulnerabilities).

• Acts as subject matter expert to drive improvements, ensures automation, testing, and debugging of systems to ensure service/product availability, health, support, and reliability.

• Leverages deep industry knowledge and expertise to serve as a thought leader within the organization. Contributes to the advancement of the field or industry through thought leadership (e.g., conference presentations, white papers, research contributions). Maintains and evolves expertise in relevant areas by proactively monitoring emerging trends, technologies, and industry standards, ensuring the organization remains current with best practices. Champions continuous learning and knowledge sharing, promoting professional development across teams.
  
  Applies new knowledge to drive advancement and mentors others to do the same.

• Develops innovative solutions and drives the implementation of ideas that increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows across the organization. Evaluates effectiveness of updated approaches and methods for continued improvement to enhance efficiencies and ensure changes align with organizational goals. Designs and…