Principal Solutions Architect

This role is a principal solutions architect Embedded Full time inside a large financial institution, responsible for driving architectural strategy, providing design authority over our platform, handling technical escalations, and leading engagement with executive leadership. Architecture & Technical Farming (65%)

• 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: identity federation, CDC patterns, governance metadata, data lineage, network segmentation, and encryption.
• Identify the next workloads NX1 is positioned to support before the customer has fully articulated them, qualify these opportunities, and hand them to the Account Executive.
• 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.

Engagement & Commercial Partnership (35%)

• Own the internal cadence on the account-keep engineering, FDEs, product, and the Account Executive aligned on what's happening at the customer.
• Maintain executive-level relationships with customer business and IT leadership at the appropriate cadence.
• Translate architectural farming insights into Account Executive-usable expansion theses: technical case, stakeholder map, rough scope, and customer political context-qualified opportunities, not loose architectural musings.
• Own escalation leadership when something breaks-you're the person in the room.
• Navigate vendor governance at a major bank: third-party risk reviews, audit responses, change management, and vendor due diligence.

• 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, with named examples of I saw the customer's next workload before they did, qualified it, and partnered with sales to expand.
• 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.

Strong Differentiators

• Prior Embedded experience in a highly regulated industry, as a vendor SA.
• Hands-on with relevant workloads: regulatory reporting pipelines, CCAR/DFAST data, AML/KYC, customer 360, treasury and liquidity.
• Open-source contributions to NX1 stack components (Iceberg, Spark, Trino, Airflow).
• Conference presence at Subsurface, Trino Summit, or Airflow Summit in FS-adjacent tracks.

Why You'll Love Working at Nexus

• 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.