Sr Principal Architect, Foundational Platforms Location: The Sr Principal Architect leads enterprise architecture for the foundational platforms, standards, and practices used to build, deliver, secure, and operate software. This role sets technical direction across the software development lifecycle, developer platforms and tooling, observability and logging, reliability, and identity and authentication. Responsibilities include defining reference architectures and standards, guiding strategic technology decisions, mentoring teams, and partnering across Engineering, Security, Cloud, and Operations to improve developer productivity, security, reliability, and operational excellence.
Define enterprise architecture and reference patterns for software delivery and engineering platforms. Lead architecture reviews and cross-domain technical decisions. Shape developer platform, self-service, automation, and developer experience strategy. Partner with Security on identity, service-to-service authentication, software supply chain, and platform security. Guide modernization and adoption of common foundational platform capabilities and standards. Software Delivery: Aligns SDLC, CI/CD, testing, release, and software supply-chain standards across domains. Developer Platforms: Aligns developer tooling, self-service, service catalog, and platform engineering standards across domains. Aligns metrics, logs, traces, telemetry, and monitoring standards across domains. Aligns SLO, resilience, performance, capacity, and operational readiness practices across domains. Aligns security architecture and automated controls with enterprise engineering practices. Cloud & Distributed Systems: Aligns architecture standards for scalable cloud platforms and distributed applications.
Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
Experience defining architecture for enterprise-scale platforms or distributed systems.
Experience with enterprise developer platforms, SDLC modernization, or platform engineering.
Experience with enterprise observability, reliability, identity, or security architecture. Provides technical leadership to engineering and architecture teams. TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS
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Sr Principal Architect, Foundational Platforms in nashville at Unknown Company
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