Principal Software Architect - Upstream Planning

Principal Software Architect – Upstream Planning

Location: Houston, Texas;
Dallas, Texas; or USA – Remote

Model of Work: Hybrid if located in Houston, TX or Remote with travel if the work location is US – Remote

Are you excited by challenges? Do you enjoy working in a fast‑paced, international and dynamic environment? Join Quorum Software, a rapidly growing company and industry leader in oil & gas transformation.

Reporting to the Chief Technology Officer (CTO), the Principal Architect is the most senior individual‑contributor technical authority within the Product Innovation & Engineering (PIE) function. This role sets the technical direction for a secure, resilient, and scalable global SaaS platform that supports a diversified portfolio of energy‑focused software products.

• Own the end‑to‑end target architecture across a diversified, multi‑product SaaS portfolio, ensuring consistency, extensibility, and scalability
• Define reference architectures, patterns, and blueprints that accelerate delivery across global engineering teams
• Lead high‑impact, cross‑cutting architecture decisions and resolve the most complex technical trade‑offs spanning multiple products and teams
• Translate the technology strategy into concrete architectural roadmaps and platform investment recommendations with measurable outcomes

• Establish and steward architectural guardrails, standards, and review processes that enable faster, safer execution without becoming a bottleneck
• Lead architecture review forums and evaluate significant designs, RFCs, and platform changes against agreed principles
• Embed security‑by‑design, reliability, and operational excellence into architectural standards across all products
• Define and track architectural health metrics, and drive measurable, continuous improvement across the portfolio

• Lead the modernization of legacy and acquired platforms toward a converged, cloud‑native target state
• Define pragmatic, staged modernization paths that balance customer value, delivery velocity, and risk
• Actively identify, prioritize, and reduce systemic technical debt critical to long‑term scalability and margin
• Support M&A technical due diligence, platform consolidation, and post‑acquisition integration efforts

• Architect scalable data and AI‑enabled platform capabilities that are pragmatic, governed, and directly tied to customer value
• Partner with data and product teams on data platform architecture, including large‑scale data processing, analytics, and high availability
• Guide responsible, well‑governed AI adoption, balancing innovation with explainability, security, and risk management

• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to the CTO, engineering leadership, and the broader architecture community
• Mentor and develop senior engineers and architects, raising the technical bar across the PIE organization
• Build alignment and drive adoption across product, engineering, security, and infrastructure teams, influencing without direct authority
• Represent the technology organization as a credible senior technical voice in customer, partner, and due‑diligence conversations

And other duties as assigned.

• 12+ years of experience in software engineering and architecture, including senior or principal‑level architecture roles in SaaS organizations
• Deep, hands‑on expertise in platform architecture, distributed systems, and modern cloud‑native technologies (e.g., containers, microservices, event‑driven architectures, and public cloud)
• Proven track record designing, scaling, and evolving large‑scale, multi‑tenant SaaS platforms in production
• Demonstrated success establishing architectural standards, governance, and reference patterns adopted across multiple teams
• Experience leading platform modernization, consolidation, and technical‑debt reduction across complex or acquired systems
• Strong background in data platforms, analytics, and/or AI‑enabled capabilities
• Strong commercial mindset with the ability to balance technical depth against speed, cost, scalability, and…