Principal Architect, CSA

Why You’ll Love Softchoice

We are a software‑focused IT solutions and services provider that equips organizations to be agile and innovative, and for their people to be engaged, connected, and creative t means moving them to the cloud, helping them build the workplace of tomorrow, and enabling them to make smarter decisions about their technology. By doing these things we help them create success for their customers and their people.

The Principal Architect serves as the senior architectural authority within Customer Solution Architecture HPT Client Team, shaping enterprise‑scale transformation across AI, data, hybrid infrastructure, and security domains. This role unifies strategic advisory, platform design, and architectural governance to guide clients from vision through execution while ensuring long‑term scalability, performance, and risk mitigation.

As a Principal Architect, you will hold a pivotal role in defining and governing enterprise‑scale architectural direction across complex, multi‑domain environments, ensuring alignment with client strategy, industry standards, and Softchoice platform best practices. Business travel will be required approximately 30% of the time.

• Lead Client Engagements & Advisory:
  Engage CIO, CTO, CISO, and executive stakeholders on multi‑year platform strategy, investment prioritization, and architectural trade‑offs across cost, resiliency, compliance, and innovation.
• High‑Performance Architecture Design:
  Design and govern enterprise AI Factory architectures, integrating GPU compute, data platforms, orchestration, governance, security, and operating models to enable scalable, responsible AI adoption.
• Business Development, Relationship Management, and Technical Sales & Demonstrations:
  Develop and nurture relationships with key client stakeholders. Demonstrate proficiency in originating deals with C‑level individuals. Lead pursuit teams, contribute to proposal development, and shape pricing strategies. Deliver demos showcasing AI and infrastructure value. Create and present technical architecture(s) and proposals.
• Solution Delivery Guidance & Integration:
  Identify architectural risk early and provide executive‑level guidance on trade‑offs between innovation, performance, regulatory compliance, and cost optimisation.
• Practice & Team Development:
  Contribute to practice development and serve as architectural authority across CSA, mentoring senior architects, defining reusable patterns and reference architectures, and influencing capability investment and solution packaging.
• Continuous Learning & Industry Expertise:
  Maintain deep understanding of emerging AI, Data, and Hybrid IT platforms. Cultivate a growth mindset, continually seeking new and improved technologies and methods with which to drive impact.

As a Principal Architect within the Customer Solution Architecture organization, you will possess a understanding of client industries (such as Retail, Oil & Gas, FSI, Manufacturing) and businesses, coupled with the ability to accelerate their digital transformation journeys through innovative solutions. This role demands strong financial and business acumen, coupled with extensive knowledge in technology and change management, and a principled approach to addressing digital transformation challenges and opportunities.

• Analytical, Interpersonal, and Creative
  
  Skills:
  
  You excel at analysing complex situations, fostering interpersonal relationships, and leveraging creative solutions at the intersection of business and technology.
• Ambitious and Enterprising:
  With a strong presence in the C‑Suite, you demonstrate ambition and entrepreneurship, thriving in environments that demand leadership and strategic thinking.
• Active Learner and Pattern Recognizer:
  You continuously seek out patterns in business, technology, and organisational cultures, providing valuable insights to clients. With a growth mindset, you enjoy exploring both familiar and unfamiliar technologies to craft innovative solutions.
• Educational and Certification Background:
  An undergraduate degree is required, with preference given to business or…