Principal Architect

Job Title: Principal Architect
Job Location: Dallas TX
Job Type: Contract

Job Description:

• Define and maintain enterprise architecture standards, principles, and best practices.
• Develop technology roadmaps aligned with business strategy and organizational goals.
• Lead architecture reviews and provide technical guidance across multiple engineering teams.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend adoption strategies.
• Establish reference architectures, reusable frameworks, and architectural governance processes.
• Design scalable, secure, and highly available API ecosystems.
• Establish standards for API design, versioning, documentation, security, observability, and lifecycle management.
• Lead integration strategies across internal applications, SaaS platforms, partners, and enterprise systems.
• Drive API governance initiatives, API catalog management, and service reuse.
• Design patterns for synchronous and asynchronous integrations.
• Lead domain discovery and event storming workshops with business and technical stakeholders.
• Define bounded contexts, aggregates, domain services, and domain events.
• Promote business-aligned architectures through ubiquitous language and domain ownership.
• Guide teams in decomposing monolithic systems into domain-centric services and capabilities.
• Design and implement event-driven and message-based architectures.
• Define standards for event modeling, event contracts, schema governance, and event versioning.
• Establish best practices for resiliency, retries, dead-letter processing, idempotency, and fault tolerance.
• Drive adoption of event streaming and asynchronous communication patterns.