Principal Solutions Architect - AI, Automation & Network Transformation

Job#: 3039141

Job Description:
Principal Solutions Architect - AI, Automation & Network Transformation

Location: Chandler, Arizona (Hybrid)

Role Overview

This role is responsible for defining the architectural vision and solution architecture for AI, automation, and orchestration capabilities supporting the Network AI and Agentic Transformation across Network Services. The position involves describing solution intent, evaluating system impacts, and defining the architectural runway for new use-cases. This role operates flexibly across Research Strategy, Engineering Delivery, and Deterministic Automation, contributing where demand is highest based on organizational need and candidate strengths.

Key Responsibilities

• Define architectural vision and solution intent for capabilities supporting the Network AI and Agentic Transformation.
• Work across business and technology stakeholders to shape architecture for AI-enabled use-cases, orchestration patterns, and integration capabilities.
• Evaluate system impacts, interfaces, dependencies, and architectural implications of new use-cases and platform capabilities.
• Lead the rapid shaping of high-level architecture, with detail added iteratively as requirements and technical options emerge.
• Ensure architecture is flexible, modular, and designed to adapt to changing priorities and new AI capabilities.
• Help define reusable architectural patterns, templates, and design guidance to improve consistency.
• Partner with engineering and delivery teams to clarify architecture, support implementation planning, and resolve impediments.
• Contribute to the strategic evaluation of emerging capabilities by assessing architectural fit and adoption pathways.
• Define and communicate non-functional requirements to ensure solutions are secure, resilient, and scalable.
• Support design reviews and architectural assessments to ensure solutions align with approved standards.

Required Qualifications

Experience:

• Experience defining solution architecture and architectural vision for complex technology capabilities spanning application, data, integration, and automation domains.
• Ability to operate flexibly across strategy, architecture, engineering, and automation domains.

* Experience shaping architectural approaches for AI-enabled use-cases, workflow orchestration, and tool integration.

• Strong understanding of how to evaluate system impacts, interfaces, dependencies, and non-functional requirements.
• Ability to translate business objectives into architectural direction and reusable technical patterns.
• Experience facilitating solution-driven discussions with stakeholders.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise architecture standards, technology governance, and security expectations in a regulated environment.
• Familiarity with AI and agentic solution concepts, including context grounding, tool interaction patterns, and model-enabled workflows.
• Strong understanding of deterministic automation concepts, including workflow sequencing and exception handling.
• Experience working across architecture, engineering, product, and delivery stakeholders.
• Ability to define non-functional requirements covering security, performance, resiliency, and scalability.
• Experience contributing to reusable reference patterns, technical standards, and design guidance.
• Strong analytical thinking and architectural judgment, including the ability to compare solution options.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience working in a fast-paced global environment with evolving priorities.

Technical Skills:

• Architecture - Development Support
• Architecture - Roadmap / Strategy Support
• Technology Infrastructure Implementation
• Word

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