Principal enterprise architect

Summary:

The Principal Enterprise Architect is a senior technical leader within the Office of the CTO responsible for defining and governing the core architectural foundations of the Moder AI Platform. This role ensures that platform design decisions are consistent, scalable, and reusable across implementations, enabling the organization to systematically accelerate enterprise modernization efforts.

The Principal Enterprise Architect establishes the architectural patterns that underpin data, AI, and application development on Palantir Foundry and AIP, with a particular focus on system-of-record transformation, migration automation, and AI-native engineering practices. The role translates strategic platform objectives into concrete architectural standards and ensures their consistent application across engineering teams.

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Define, evolve, and maintain the core architectural framework of the Moder AI Platform, including ontology design, data modeling standards, pipeline architecture, application patterns, and integration approaches across origination, servicing, and other enterprise systems of record.
• Design the end-to-end architecture for AI-enabled migration capabilities that transform legacy systems, including data structures, business logic, workflows, and application behavior into platform-native assets. Ensure these capabilities are scalable and repeatable across large enterprise modernization programs.
• Identify recurring implementation patterns across deployments and formalize them into reusable platform capabilities. Drive consistency across engineering teams to reduce duplication, improve delivery velocity, and increase platform leverage over time.
• Establish and enforce architectural standards in collaboration with engineering leadership. Review and approve critical system designs, and exercise architectural authority to ensure alignment with platform principles, scalability requirements, security standards, and long-term maintainability.
• Define architectural approaches for integrating GenAI, agentic systems, and automation into the platform. Establish patterns for AI-assisted development, intelligent migration workflows, and production-grade agent orchestration.
• Provide direct architectural guidance to the CTO and executive leadership on platform strategy, technology investments, build-versus-configure decisions, and technical risk assessment for strategic initiatives and commercial engagements.
• Support the most complex customer and internal implementations by translating enterprise requirements into scalable, standardized architectural solutions while ensuring alignment with platform direction.
• Mentor senior and principal engineers across the organization. Strengthen architectural decision-making capabilities within engineering teams and contribute to the development of internal technical standards and best practices.
• Comply with all company policies and procedures.
• Maintain regular and punctual attendance.

Other Job Duties and Responsibilities:

Performs other related duties as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

This position is an individual contributor with no direct reports but may provide guidance, leadership, or training to others.

Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

Education and/or Experience:

• 15+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, platform engineering, or senior technical leadership roles in complex, large-scale environments.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience delivering solutions on Palantir Foundry and AIP, including ontology design, data pipelines, system integration, and application architecture.
• Proven ability to design and operationalize reusable architectural patterns with measurable impact on delivery speed, cost efficiency, system reliability, or scalability.
• Experience designing and deploying production-grade GenAI or agentic systems, including orchestration, tool integration, governance, and observability.
• Deep expertise in modern data architecture, including cloud-native systems, APIs, and event-driven architectures.
• Experience leading architecture for large-scale modernization or migration programs involving legacy systems of record.
• Strong judgment in evaluating architectural tradeoffs, including decisions around standardization, reuse, customization, and system design constraints.
• Experience advising senior executives (CTO, CIO, or equivalent) on enterprise technology strategy and architectural direction.
• Ability to operate effectively across strategic and hands-on contexts, from executive-level platform design to detailed technical architecture reviews.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to align engineering, product, and executive stakeholders around complex technical decisions.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:

None Required

Work Complexity:

Problems and issues faced are frequently complex and multi-dimensional, requiring broad-based consideration of variables that impact areas outside of immediate responsibility. Extensively analyzes problems to seek understanding of the underlying issue and root cause of the problem.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Work is normally performed in a typical interior office work environment which does not subject the employee to any hazardous or unpleasant elements. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

Equal Employment Opportunity:

The company is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, ethnicity, color, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, religion, national origin, age (40 and over), disability, military status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

Americans with Disabilities Act:

Applicants as well as employees who are or become disabled must be able to satisfactorily perform the essential job functions of the position either with or without reasonable accommodation. Applicants as well as employees are encouraged to meet with Human Resources as the organization shall review reasonable accommodations on a case-by-case basis in accordance with applicable law.

Job Responsibilities:

The statements reflect the general duties and responsibilities considered necessary to perform the essential functions of the job and should not be considered as an all-inclusive list of all the work requirements of the position. The company may change the specific job duties with or without prior notice based on the needs of the organization.