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Senior Principal Solutions Architect
Location
United States
Posted
5 days ago
Salary
$173.6K - $252.9K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Principal Solutions Architect
8th Light
• As a go-to architect and strategist within 8th Light, you'll partner with one or two clients a year on their hardest architecture challenges, while deepening your and our collective expertise over the course of your career with us. • This role sits at the intersection of long-term planning and hands-on technical leadership. You'll work across the enterprise to map data dependencies, drive legacy modernization, and define how domains like pricing fit into a broader enterprise data and AI ecosystem. One day that might mean aligning teams to deliver new low-latency data sets; the next, running architecture trade-off analysis with senior product, design, and business leadership. • A significant part of the work involves mapping application dependencies and capabilities, building an enterprise-wide context graph, and contributing to an MCP server built on enterprise architecture tooling, all aimed at giving teams (and the AI-assisted tools they use) the context to make better design, trade-off, and risk decisions. • Day-to-day output is hands-on architecture and design: planning artifacts, architecture diagrams, decision records, and roadmap contributions. This isn't a feature-delivery role, but you'll need enough data and technical depth to make well-informed calls, design real systems, and build credibility with technical stakeholders.
Job Requirements
- Deep experience in enterprise architecture at scale, across large, distributed systems
- Strong data fluency, dependency mapping, data mesh enablement, high-availability and low-latency design
- Hands-on experience with the stack: Kubernetes, Kafka, Cassandra, Java, TypeScript, AWS, protobuf, Databricks, GraphQL, and REST
- Comfort using AI-assisted development and agentic coding tools to accelerate delivery and enable non-technical teams
- A track record of working across teams on complex, multi-stakeholder technical decisions, including trade-off and risk analysis (e.g. SPADE, architecture decision records)
- Credibility and trust building across a group including executives who will be focused on business value and senior technical stakeholders who will be focused on implementation
- Strong domain-driven design instincts and comfort with the ambiguity of both greenfield and legacy work
Benefits
- Our wellness package is designed with the Whole YOU in mind and includes:
- A robust L&D program featuring unlimited access to thousands of books, courses, and expert-led training on the O'Reilly learning platform.
- Annual financial stipend and time allotment for learning & development
- Coworking support for our global team
- Flexible PTO
- 12 weeks of new parent leave available for eligible employees
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