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# Principal Solutions Architect

- **Company:** Nexus
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Airflow, Amazon S3, Cloud Engineering, Software Design Documents, IT Management, Cisco Nexus Switches, Apache Spark, Kubernetes, Apache Kafka, Free and Open-Source Software
- **Published:** July 28, 2026
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/nexus-cognitive/edfeed4e-ed89-4bd1-bb23-cda703844c3f

## About the Role

Required

 * 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 - you know what it means to be a vendor inside another organization's culture for 12+ months
 * 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 - 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 in NX1 stack components (Iceberg, Spark, Trino, Airflow)
 * Conference presence at Subsurface, Trino Summit, or Airflow Summit in FS-adjacent tracks, * 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, If this role sounds like a great fit - or even close to one - we'd love to hear from you. We know that no candidate checks every single box, and we're excited to meet people who bring curiosity, talent, and a desire to build meaningful work together.

## Description

* 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, encryption
 * Identify the next workloads NX1 is positioned to support before the customer has fully articulated them - and qualify those opportunities with stakeholder context and technical depth before handing them to the AE
 * 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 NX1 internal cadence on the account - keep engineering, FDEs, product, and the AE 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 AE-usable expansion theses: technical case, stakeholder map, rough scope, 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, vendor due diligence


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