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The Principal Architect (L65) is a senior executive level technical leader accountable for enterprise-wide architecture strategy, AI first delivery execution, and business outcomes across complex, multiyear customer engagements. This role serves as a trusted advisor to CEO, CIO, CTO, CDO, and executive leadership teams of customers, influencing digital, data, and AI transformation agendas.
Job Responsibility:
Define and drive enterprise scale AI first delivery strategies
Lead end-to-end technical accountability for mission critical, multiprogram engagements
Establish delivery models that scale intelligent automation, autonomous systems, and AI native execution
Act as the executive technical authority during escalations
Partner with CIO/CTO/CDO leadership to balance innovation, governance, cost, security, and speed
Set enterprise architecture standards and technical guardrails
Ensure production grade quality through architecture reviews, performance benchmarks, security controls
Champion modern engineering practices including DevSecOps, platform engineering, CI/CD, SRE, and AI assisted development
Foster a culture of technical rigor, accountability, and continuous evolution
Shape forward-looking architecture visions for customers
Engage in executive level discussions to influence technology roadmaps
Lead creation of reusable assets, reference architectures, accelerators, and IP
Represent GCID as a thought leader
Act as a primary technology advisor to CEO/CIO/CTO leadership
Translate business imperatives into enterprise grade architecture, blueprints and execution roadmaps
Build trusted relationships with senior customer stakeholders
Guide customers through complex tradeoffs
Mentor senior architects and engineering leaders
Lead cross functional, cross geography architect communities
Ensure all solutions meet enterprise security, compliance, reliability, and Responsible AI standards
Provide executive oversight to design governance, quality gates, and production readiness
Requirements:
22+ years of experience in software, data, and platform engineering
15+ years in enterprise architecture and technical leadership roles
Proven track record of influencing and delivering transformation outcomes at CXO level
Deep expertise in modern delivery methodologies and go-to-market acceleration models
Exceptional executive communication, stakeholder influence, and decision-making skills
Bachelor's degree in engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience
advanced certifications preferred
Expertise in Enterprise Data Architecture & Modern Platforms
Expertise in Data Engineering & Large Scale Data Processing
Expertise in Database Platforms, Performance & Capacity Engineering
Expertise in AI First Data Engineering & Unify Your Data
Expertise in AI & Advanced Analytics Enablement
Expertise in Solutioning, Presales & Technical Leadership
Expertise in Frontier Consulting Skills
Personal Attributes: Executive presence, strategic thinker, decisive, resilient, comfortable navigating ambiguity, passionate about innovation