Expert Architect

One of the best-known names in cruising, Princess is the world’s leading international premium cruise line and tour company, carrying millions of guests each year to hundreds of destinations around the globe. We give our guests the Medallion Class experience others simply can’t. The Love Boat promises something for everyone.

The Principal Enterprise Architect, Infrastructure Virtualized Solutions serves as the organization’s highest-level technical authority and a globally recognized external thought leader in enterprise virtualization, hybrid infrastructure, resilient computing, storage, workload mobility, disaster recovery, and infrastructure automation.

The role defines and governs the global infrastructure architecture strategy supporting complex shoreside and fleet operations. It establishes the long-term architecture vision, enterprise principles, reference models, technology standards, and investment direction for platforms that enable mission-critical operational, guest-facing, and corporate services.

Operating with enterprise-wide authority and substantial independence, the role proactively identifies and solves the organization’s most complex and unprecedented infrastructure challenges. It develops innovative solutions from first principles when established practices, technologies, or precedents are insufficient. Decisions made by the role materially influence business continuity, cybersecurity posture, global scalability, capital investment, technology risk, operational performance, and the strategic direction of the business.

The role leads the organization’s largest, most strategically significant, and technically complex multidisciplinary infrastructure transformation initiatives. These initiatives span fleet and shoreside environments, data centers, cloud platforms, cybersecurity, application ecosystems, engineering, and business operations.

The role participates directly in the development of business and technology strategy and advises executive leadership on emerging technologies, strategic risk, enterprise investment, operational resilience, and the infrastructure capabilities required to support long-term growth and innovation.

Through external professional leadership, strategic technology partnerships, and engagement with major vendors and industry bodies, the role influences industry practices and technology roadmaps. It originates major architectural innovations expected to advance the infrastructure architecture profession and establish the organization as a leader in secure, resilient, and globally distributed technology environments.

Here’s a summary of what Princes sis looking for in a Principal Enterprise Architect. Is this you?

Define and govern the global infrastructure architecture strategy across virtualized compute, storage, networking, private and public cloud, workload mobility, disaster recovery, automation, and platform engineering.

Establish the long-term architecture vision, enterprise principles, reference models, technology standards, decision frameworks, and investment roadmaps supporting global shoreside and fleet operations.

Exercise final enterprise architectural authority for the organization’s most complex, highest-risk, and most strategically significant infrastructure solutions and transformation initiatives.

Lead enterprise architecture review boards, resolve architectural conflicts across functions and platforms, and approve exceptions to enterprise standards based on business value, strategic risk, and long-term architectural integrity.

Establish architecture health metrics and executive-level reporting that identify enterprise risk, technical debt, modernization…