Principal Architect- IT Technology Enablement

The Principal Architect in the IT Technology Enablement team is a senior, strategic, and hands-on technical leader who works across development, infrastructure, security, and operations teams to deliver scalable, resilient, and future-ready platforms that enable application teams to build, deploy, and operate software at scale. This REMOTE role is responsible for ensuring core platform stability while shaping and executing our long-range platform strategy, including containerization, data center virtualization, and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). The architect must balance long-term architectural vision with practical delivery., * Define, evolve, and govern platform architecture across cloud infrastructure, shared services, CI/CD, observability, and developer tooling with a strong focus on stability, reliability, and scalability.

• Lead architectural strategy for:
• Container platforms (e.g. AKS) and orchestration
• Data center and cloud virtualization
• Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and automation
• Evaluate emerging technologies, including AI-enabled platform capabilities, and guide their adoption where they add clear value.
• Ensure architectures are designed for performance, fault tolerance, security, compliance, and cost efficiency across distributed systems.
• Document and communicate architectural decisions through ADRs, diagrams, and standards documentation, ensuring clarity and traceability.
• Translate complex technical concepts into clear business-level trade-offs and recommendations.
• Provide technical mentorship to architects and technical leads; guide architectural thinking across teams.
• Promote architectural consistency while enabling team autonomy and innovation.

• Deep expertise in platform and infrastructure architecture, including onprem and cloud environments.
• Strong experience with Azure cloud platforms, virtualization, and container technologies.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, and automation.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, security architecture, resilience, and observability.
• Strong background in DevOps, SRE, and observability (logging, metrics, tracing).
• Experience designing and governing security architectures (identity, secrets, network segmentation, zero trust).
• Practical experience evaluating and applying AI-assisted tools for architecture analysis, development productivity, or operational insights.
• Familiarity with architecture documentation and modeling tools (e.g., Lucidchart, Draw.io, PlantUML, ADRs).
• Ability to clearly document and communicate architectural decisions to technical and non-technical audiences.

Experience & Background:

• 7-10+ years of professional experience in software, infrastructure, or platform engineering.
• 3-5+ years in senior technical leadership roles, such as Senior Architect, Lead Architect, Staff/Principal Engineer, or equivalent.
• Experience designing and operating enterprise-scale platforms used by multiple teams or products.
• Prior experience in long-term architectural planning.
• Demonstrated success in reliability improvement.
• Track record of transitioning platforms through modernization efforts (e.g., on-prem to cloud, legacy CI/CD to modern pipelines).
• Experience working closely with security, operations, and governance functions in regulated or enterprise environments.

This role is ideal for a technically strong, strategically minded architect who thrives on building stable, scalable platforms today while guiding the organization toward future-state infrastructure capabilities.

Referral program, AD&D insurance, Parental leave, Health insurance, 401(k) matching, Paid time off, Vision insurance, Health savings account, Brinks Home recognizes the value of benefits for you and your family, so we offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits program:

• Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k) with Employer Match, Paid Time Off & Paid Holidays, HSA/FSA, Life & AD&D Insurance, Disability Coverage, Maternity/Parental Leave, Mental & Physical Health Benefits, Employee Resource Groups, Volunteer Hours, Discounted Equipment & Monitoring, Employee Referral Program, and Continuing Education

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