Principal Solutions Architect
Location
New York + 1 moreAll locations: New York | North Carolina
Posted
2 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Principal Solutions Architect
Nexus Cognitive
• Hold design authority over NX1 deployment patterns at the customer • Attend and actively contribute to architecture review boards, security reviews, and data governance forums • Design and defend the integration architecture across the customer's data stack • Identify the next workloads NX1 is positioned to support before the customer has fully articulated them • Produce high-quality design documents that hold up to hostile review boards without you in the room • Serve as the technical escalation point when NX1 deployment issues arise at the customer • Own the NX1 internal cadence on the account • Maintain executive-level relationships with customer business and IT leadership • Translate architectural farming insights into AE-usable expansion theses • Own escalation leadership when something breaks • Navigate vendor governance at a major bank
Job Requirements
- 12–18 years in enterprise data/cloud architecture as an SA, principal engineer, or equivalent
- At least one prior multi-year embedded engagement at a Tier 1 bank or equivalent regulated enterprise
- Hands-on or recent hands-on depth in the modern OSS data stack: Spark, Trino, Airflow, Iceberg, Kubernetes, S3-compatible object storage, Kafka — at petabyte scale, with hundreds of pipelines
- Experience producing and defending design documents in front of hostile architecture review boards
- Track record of identifying expansion or net-new use cases through architectural insight at a large customer
- Willingness to be on-site in Charlotte, NC (primary) and NYC (secondary) at 80%+ cadence
- Deep familiarity with bank IT culture and governance: risk and control frameworks, TPRM, change management, audit cycles, regulatory reporting patterns
Benefits
- A collaborative team culture built on curiosity and respect
- Challenging work where your contributions clearly matter
- A leadership team that invests in learning and development
- The opportunity to work at the intersection of cloud, data, and AI innovation
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