Top Principal Architect Jobs in NYC, NY

The Principal Architect at Zencore leads technical projects, guiding clients in cloud technology solutions, with hands-on execution in architecture and mentoring other engineers.

The Principal Architect will lead the technical direction of Tenna's platform by designing scalable systems, establishing standards, and guiding teams in implementing the technical strategy while ensuring system reliability and performance.

Provides enterprise software architecture leadership, governance, and technical direction. Designs scalable, secure, highly available platforms, APIs, frameworks, and distributed systems; guides modernization from monoliths to microservices; evaluates emerging technologies; supports architecture and code reviews; analyzes performance and operational metrics; and communicates recommendations to technical and business stakeholders.

The Principal Enterprise Architect is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the enterprise-wide technology architecture of the organization, supporting overall IT operations.

Designs enterprise-scale ICAM system architectures, defining functional and technical requirements, integration approaches, authentication, authorization, segregation of duties, and privileged access management. Develops high-level system design diagrams and ensures compliance with enterprise architecture, open systems, OSI, ISO, IEEE OSE, and common operating environment standards. Evaluates workflow and organizational issues and develops corrective actions. Requires Secret clearance, substantial system architecture experience, ICAM implementation expertise, and DoD 8140 IAT Level II certification.

Owns the cloud architecture vision and roadmap for an AWS-first, multi-cloud SaaS environment. Designs secure, resilient, scalable, and cost-efficient infrastructure; leads cloud modernization; enables AI and data platforms; establishes Terraform, CI/CD, observability, security, governance, and reliability standards; and partners with engineering, security, operations, customers, auditors, and leadership. Coordinates major incident response and drives self-service infrastructure and developer experience improvements.

Lead architecture and delivery of AI-native contact center solutions using Amazon Connect and generative AI. Design AI agents, contact flows, serverless backends, analytics lakes, IaC, CI/CD, observability, and migration plans. Mentor engineers, drive technical decisions, manage risk, and support pre-sales and customer enablement.

Lead architecture and implementation of a high-performance OLAP query engine and semantic layer: design a JSON-based DSL and compiler, generate optimized SQL for columnar databases, build distributed caching, tune JVM and low-level performance, and provide technical leadership and documentation.

Lead architecture, design, and deployment of scalable, production-grade cloud-native services. Define architectural standards, decouple a monolith into modular services, integrate secure AI/LLM patterns, and partner with engineering and product leaders to balance security, cost-efficiency, observability, and long-term scalability.

Design and govern large-scale Elasticsearch architectures and migrations. Build high-throughput indexing and semantic vector search (kNN, ANN, ELSER) and RAG pipelines. Optimize performance, capacity, and cluster topology across cloud platforms, influence product roadmap, publish best practices, and mentor engineering teams and enterprise customers.

Lead end-to-end solution and enterprise architecture for Telecom BSS transformations, advising C-suite customers, defining target architectures, integration patterns, cloud-native and API-first designs, and driving delivery through production readiness, governance, and operational excellence across CRM, Billing, Charging, Order Management and related systems.

Embed as the daily technical authority inside a Tier 1 regulated customer to design, defend, and operate NX1 integrations across the data stack. Lead architecture reviews, design integration patterns (identity, CDC, governance, lineage, encryption), surface and qualify new workload opportunities for sales, produce defendable design docs, coordinate internal stakeholders, maintain executive relationships, and lead escalations and vendor governance.

As a Principal Payments Integration Architect, you will lead technical design and delivery of payment integrations, guiding engineering teams and advising clients in building scalable payment infrastructure.

The role involves leading frontend architecture, defining standards, mentoring engineers, and driving AI-assisted development practices while collaborating with UX and product teams.

Lead architecture and technical strategy for the ClientWorks advisor platform. Design cloud-native, secure, scalable solutions across front-end, mobile, APIs, and integrations (Salesforce, Wealthbox). Drive DevSecOps, IaC, CI/CD, incident response, performance optimization, and design system modernization. Mentor teams, align cross-functional stakeholders, and ensure regulatory compliance and measurable business outcomes.

Lead customer engagements and pre-sales for Databricks-based data platforms. Architect and deliver end-to-end data engineering solutions supporting BI, ML/AI, and analytics; manage multiple accounts, mentor teams, ensure data quality, governance, and production readiness, and produce technical documentation and presentations.

Lead enterprise M&A data architecture and integration: perform technology due diligence, define target-state and integration roadmaps, drive cloud modernization, application/platform rationalization, data harmonization, governance, and large-scale program delivery to realize value from mergers and acquisitions.

Leads mission formulation and architecture for international space opportunities. Develops mission concepts, performs mission-level analyses, owns top-level budgets, defines requirements, evaluates spacecraft and constellation configurations, and guides engineering teams through design trade studies. Collaborates with customers, scientists, and engineering disciplines to create practical, cost-effective satellite missions. Requires regular international travel and occasional travel to the Mountain View facility.

Lead strategic solution architecture for ISV partnerships, designing scalable embedded compliance integrations using APIs, webhooks and cloud-native patterns; influence product strategy, advise executives, establish governance and testing frameworks, mentor architects, and support pre-sales and partner engagements.

Lead enterprise solution architecture for digital channels (CRM, marketing tech, customer service, UX, mobile). Define standards, reference architectures, guardrails, and reusable patterns. Drive Salesforce, Adobe, and contact-center platform strategy, cloud integration, AI-native design, and engineering enablement. Influence distributed teams, mentor architects, ensure security, scalability, resilience, and production readiness while partnering with EA, product, security, and platform teams.

Define and govern enterprise API architecture, create reusable reference patterns and guardrails, drive API modernization, partner with platform, security, and product teams, mentor architects, and translate API strategy into scalable, secure, and observable solutions that enable delivery across value streams.

Lead implementation and adoption of the Arena PLM application for manufacturing customers. Manage multiple implementations including project management, configuration, data migration, troubleshooting, and customer training while providing best-practice guidance.

Lead mission formulation and architecture for EO/IR and persistent infrared/MW missions. Perform mission-level analyses, define requirements and top-level budgets, design payloads and constellations, run trade studies using software/code, and coordinate with instrument, engineering, and science teams to deliver cost-effective space mission solutions.

Lead mission formulation and architecture: develop mission concepts from customer needs, perform mission-level analyses and top-level budgets, define requirements and design for spacecraft and RF/optical instruments, run engineering trade studies using code/tools, evaluate constellation configurations, and coordinate across disciplines.

Senior technologist and innovation leader driving cross-domain digital transformation (data, AI, cloud, DevSecOps, ITSM, cybersecurity) in federal consulting. Leads innovation strategy, builds reusable solution accelerators, supports federal proposal development, engages senior government clients, and formalizes innovation methodologies to deliver scalable, secure, mission-focused solutions.