REMOTE Principal Architect, Enterprise Architecture

Principal Architect

Required Skills & Experience
• 10+ years of Principal-level Architect experience within large-scale technology organizations. Strong background designing and evolving high-volume consumer-facing platforms. Deep experience leading legacy modernization, re-platforming, cloud migration, and platform consolidation initiatives in complex enterprise environments. Expertise in AWS, Kafka, event-driven architectures, distributed systems, and modern microservices patterns. Experience working with data platforms and analytics ecosystems, including Databricks and data architecture concepts (modeling, governance, and integration).

Strong understanding of Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and how to define domain boundaries, ownership models, and scalable architectural patterns. Proven ability to evaluate technical tradeoffs and make architecture decisions balancing business goals, scalability, cost, risk, and engineering effort. Able to influence without authority, build consensus across teams, and communicate effectively from the C-suite to hands-on engineers. Experience in large, complex environments with significant platform sprawl, technical debt, and modernization challenges.

Nice to Have Skills & Experience
• Enterprise Architecture frameworks (TOGAF, etc.) Broader Enterprise Architecture or Data Architecture experience Experience supporting organizations with 1,000+ engineers and multiple product lines

Job Description A client in the live events and ticketing space is seeking a highly senior Principal Architect (T7 / Principal II) to help shape the architecture strategy across a global technology organization supporting 1,000+ engineers and some of the highest-scale consumer platforms in the world. This role sits within Enterprise Architecture and acts as a blend of Solutions Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, and Data Architecture, with a heavier emphasis on solutions/application architecture.

You'll lead cross-functional initiatives, influence technical direction across multiple engineering teams, and drive modernization efforts across a complex ecosystem of legacy and modern platforms.

The ideal candidate brings deep experience designing and evolving consumer-facing applications, with expertise in AWS, Kafka, Databricks, event-driven architectures, microservices, distributed systems, and modern data platforms. They should be battle-tested in legacy modernization, re-platforming, cloud transformation, and platform consolidation, with a strong understanding of Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and architectural tradeoffs. This person must be able to operate autonomously, influence without direct authority, and communicate effectively from the C-suite down to engineering teams, balancing technical, business, and organizational priorities while driving alignment across a highly complex environment.