Principal architect-catalog

Key Responsibilities

• Define and own platform architecture and engineering strategy
• Lead large-scale platform modernization initiatives
• Build proofs of concept and contribute production-grade code
• Drive architecture reviews and engineering standards
• Resolve cross-team technical dependencies

Required Technical Skills

• Deep expertise in C#/.NET, Go, Java, or Python
• High-scale APIs and distributed systems
• Data modeling and event-driven architectures
• React or modern frontend frameworks
• Platform modernization and migration experience

Required Leadership Skills

• 12+ years of software engineering experience, with significant tenure at Staff/Principal level.
• Drive cross-team technical decisions, platform direction, and multi-team initiatives (architecture alignment, trade-off resolution, execution).
• Define and scale AI-driven SDLC standards, including tools, guardrails, and automation patterns.
• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development (e.g., Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor) to deliver production systems; able to articulate workflow impact and guardrails.
• Strong experience designing and evolving large-scale distributed systems (APIs, data pipelines, event driven systems, high-scale platforms).
• Proven cross-org leadership—driving architecture, standards, and platform initiatives across multiple teams.
• Elevate engineering quality through code reviews, architecture reviews, and mentoring senior engineers.
• Strong engineering fundamentals in code quality, testing, CI/CD, and observability while maintaining delivery velocity.
• Effective communicator with the ability to influence stakeholders and drive alignment without formal authority.
• Experience collaborating across product, data, security, and infrastructure teams.
• Track record of documenting and scaling architectural decisions and organizational learnings.
• Experience working with distributed teams (US, China, LATAM).