Top Principal Architect Jobs in NYC, NY

Senior architecture leader who translates enterprise strategy into target-state designs, standards, and roadmaps. Leads architecture for large transformations, ensures governance and alignment across business and technology domains, evaluates material technology decisions, and partners with security, data, platform, and engineering teams. Mentors architects and supports architecture capability development.

Design and prototype platform patterns, own domain-level architecture (cloud infra or data), enable engineering teams, run technology evaluations and POCs, expand standards/ADRs, and help shape multi-year platform and AI infrastructure strategy.

Lead and build an enterprise architecture practice from scratch: govern application portfolio, drive application rationalization and SaaS cost savings, establish architecture principles and lightweight review processes, use AI to analyze and prioritize consolidation and renewal risk, extend governance to AI agents, and align architecture decisions to business outcomes through collaboration with Finance, Procurement, and domain leads.

The role involves designing and developing enterprise-grade software solutions, integrating AI tools, collaborating with teams, and maintaining documentation while enhancing productivity for Yahoo personnel.

Lead enterprise cloud strategy and architecture on Google Cloud, drive multi-cloud interoperability, enforce governance and security, optimize cost, deliver large-scale implementations (GKE, BigQuery, Vertex AI), mentor senior engineers, and promote GitOps and automation across the delivery lifecycle.

The Principal Cloud Architect will lead cloud solution designs and implementations for clients, guiding teams, mentoring staff, and driving innovation in AWS architectural strategy.

The Principal Software Architect defines and governs software architecture for medical and non-medical systems, ensuring reliability, scalability, and regulatory compliance across multiple platforms, while collaborating with various teams to drive architectural excellence.

The Principal Platform Architect will lead major architectural initiatives, driving cloud migrations and platform shifts while ensuring system-wide alignment and execution across teams.

Lead infrastructure architecture for compute, virtualization, containers, databases, storage, and hybrid cloud. Drive VMware-to-OpenStack migration, design Kubernetes platforms, define IaC standards, ensure carrier-grade redundancy and DR, and work hands-on with engineering teams to deliver scalable, automated telecom-grade infrastructure.

As a Principal Solutions Architect, you will oversee technical architecture for VA IT modernization, writing prototypes, guiding engineering teams, and representing Credence to VA stakeholders. You will also contribute to capture strategy and mentor engineers on compliance and integration.