Principal Enterprise Solutions Architect

Title: Principal Enterprise Solutions Architect

Location: Irving, Tx (Hybrid)

This role does not offer have Independent Authorization to work in the United States.

Core Responsibilities

Enterprise Infrastructure & Cloud-Native Strategy

• Define the end-to-end technical blueprints, architecture principles, and technology lifecycles for hybrid cloud, multi-cloud, and on-premises compute infrastructure.
• Design infrastructure solutions across VMware, Bare metal Kubernetes, Physical servers, storage, network switches, data center rack/power units.
• Drive FinOps and infrastructure cost-governance models to balance performance, high availability, and operational efficiency across global compute workloads.

Containerization & Orchestration Platforms

• Architect resilient, multi-tenant Kubernetes and container management platforms (e.g., OpenShift, EKS, GKE, AKS) supporting microservices, serverless workloads, and stateful applications.
• Establish best practices for container security, image registries, service mesh deployments (e.g., Istio, Envoy), dynamic scheduling, autoscaling and cluster lifecycle automation.
• Partner with DevOps/Platform teams to standardize CI/CD pipelines, GitOps patterns (e.g., ArgoCD, Flux), and canary/blue-green release strategies.

Database & Distributed Data Systems Architecture

• Solution Database Architecture for monolith and microservices patterns, design for confidentiality, integrity, and availability spanning Oracle, SQL Server, MongoDB, Redis, PostgreSQL, Cassandra
• Strong understanding of Database transaction workload, encryption, active-active transactions across GSLB, and performance tuning.
• Design High Availability & Distributed Architecture: Implement active-active replication, sharding schemes, multi-region failover, multi-tier caching, and automated point-in-time recovery (PITR).

Enterprise Networking, Hybrid Connectivity & Zero-Trust

• Architect software-defined networking (SDN), global load balancing, and hybrid connectivity fabrics across data centers and multi-cloud providers (DirectConnect, ExpressRoute, VPN meshes, Transit Gateways).
• Champion Zero-Trust Network Architecture (ZTNA), micro-segmentation, ingress/egress perimeter controls, and API Gateway topologies (Apigee, Kong, Envoy).
• Design low-latency network topologies, DNS routing strategies, and resilient distributed traffic engineering for mission-critical trading or core operational flows.
• Strong understanding of WIP, VIP, Load Balancer F5 Big IP, NGINX, PSG, Data Power, HaProxy, APIGEE.

Core Capabilities

Experience & Background

• 15+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, systems design, infrastructure engineering, and enterprise architecture.
• 5+ years in a Principal Architect, Chief Architect, or equivalent technical leadership capacity delivering large-scale distributed enterprise solutions.
• Proven track record of spearheading large-scale legacy modernization initiatives (e.g., monolithic to microservices/cloud-native migration, data center to hybrid-cloud transformation).
• Experience using tools like Grafana, Orion, Service Now, BMC is required
• Ability to work independently under pressure, multi-task, show good temperament to design criticism, and be able to manage tight timelines.
• Strong communication skills both speaking and writing
• Ability to create detailed end-to-end design artifacts using Vision, Draw.io, Powerpoint

Education & Professional Certifications

• Education: Master s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Certifications (or equivalent demonstrated mastery): Red Hat Certified

• Oracle and Microsoft Certified DBA
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional / Google Cloud Platform Professional Cloud Architect / Azure Solutions Architect Expert
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) / Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)
• TOGAF or Zachman Framework certification (advantageous)