Principal Architect

NETS; Singapore; On-site; SGD 260,000 - 340,000; Full time

Job summary

NETS Solutions seeks a Principal Architect to lead architecture governance, drive solution excellence, and elevate engineering effectiveness. This role combines strategic oversight with hands-on leadership across business-critical initiatives, setting and enforcing architecture standards and reference patterns.

A core focus is advancing engineering productivity and software quality through AI-assisted development practices and modern platforms, while partnering with stakeholders to ensure

Qualifications

• Minimum 15 years of experience in software engineering, solution architecture, or related technology leadership roles.
• Experience leading architecture governance for large-scale, high-availability systems.
• Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams across complex environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture and design of complex, high-value, strategic business solutions.
• Partner with clients and delivery teams to translate objectives into scalable architectures.
• Provide architectural leadership throughout the solution lifecycle and ensure alignment with objectives.
• Guide delivery teams on architectural, integration, performance, security, and operational challenges.

Skills

Architecture governance

Technical leadership

AI-assisted development

Engineering standards

Job description

The Principal Architect is a senior technology leader within NETS Solutions responsible for driving architecture governance, solution excellence, engineering standards, technology innovation, and engineering effectiveness.

The role provides strategic and hands-on architectural leadership for business-critical initiatives, establishes and governs architecture standards and reference patterns, and ensures that technology solutions are scalable, secure, resilient, maintainable, and aligned with business objectives. The Principal Architect serves as a trusted advisor to business and technology stakeholders while fostering a culture of engineering excellence, continuous learning, and modern software engineering practices.

A key focus of this role is to advance engineering productivity and software quality through the adoption of AI-assisted development practices, specification-driven development methodologies, and modern engineering platforms.

Key Outcomes

Job description:

The Principal Architect is a senior technology leader within NETS Solutions responsible for driving architecture governance, solution excellence, engineering standards, technology innovation, and engineering effectiveness.

The role provides strategic and hands-on architectural leadership for business-critical initiatives, establishes and governs architecture standards and reference patterns, and ensures that technology solutions are scalable, secure, resilient, maintainable, and aligned with business objectives. The Principal Architect serves as a trusted advisor to business and technology stakeholders while fostering a culture of engineering excellence, continuous learning, and modern software engineering practices.

A key focus of this role is to advance engineering productivity and software quality through the adoption of AI-assisted development practices, specification-driven development methodologies, and modern engineering platforms.

Success in this role will be demonstrated through the following outcomes:

• Engineering Productivity & Modern Practices
• Solution Excellence
• Architecture Governance & Standards
• Technical Leadership & Capability Development

Key ResponsibilitiesSolution Architecture Leadership

• Lead the architecture and design of complex, high-value, and strategic business solutions.
• Partner with clients and delivery teams to translate business objectives into practical, scalable, maintainable, and supportable solution architectures.
• Provide architectural leadership throughout the solution lifecycle, ensuring alignment between business objectives, architecture intent, and implementation outcomes.
• Guide delivery teams in addressing complex architectural, integration, performance, security, and operational challenges while ensuring adherence to established architecture principles and standards.
• Support strategic client engagements, proposals, and pre-sales activities by providing architecture expertise, solution advisory, and technical leadership.
• Act as the architecture escalation point for critical technology decisions and architectural challenges.

Technology Leadership & Engineering Innovation

• Evaluate emerging technologies, engineering practices, architectural approaches, and solution options, and provide recommendations that improve solution quality, engineering effectiveness, delivery outcomes, and long-term sustainability.
• Assess technologies, platforms, and integration approaches to balance business objectives, delivery risks, maintainability, supportability, and operational requirements.

AI-Assisted Engineering & Modern Development Practices

• Drive the adoption of AI-assisted software engineering practices to improve productivity, software quality, and delivery outcomes.
• Establish standards, governance, guardrails, and success measures for the responsible use of AI-assisted development tools and workflows, ensuring compliance with security, quality, and regulatory requirements.
• Champion modern development approaches, including specification-driven development, architecture-driven delivery, and AI-enabled engineering practices.
• Evaluate and recommend AI-assisted development technologies and platforms, including tools for code generation, test generation, documentation, solution design, and engineering automation.
• Partner with delivery teams to embed AI-assisted development capabilities and modern engineering practices into the software development lifecycle.

Engineering Excellence & Capability Development

• Lead and mentor a team of architects, fostering technical leadership, collaboration, and professional growth.
• Establish and promote engineering standards, design patterns, best practices, and architectural principles across NETS Solutions.
• Build and cultivate communities of practice, technical learning programs, and knowledge-sharing initiatives that strengthen architecture capabilities, engineering competency, solution quality, and delivery effectiveness.
• Coach architects, engineers, and technical leaders in architecture practices, solution design, modern engineering approaches, and AI-assisted development practices.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement, engineering excellence, innovation, and technical craftsmanship.
• Contribute to the technical reputation of NETS Solutions through thought leadership, industry engagement, technical presentations, and the sharing of architecture and engineering best practices.

Architecture Governance & Assurance

• Define, maintain, and govern architecture principles, engineering standards, reference patterns, and solution design practices across NETS Solutions.
• Establish and continuously improve architecture governance processes, review frameworks, and design assurance practices.
• Lead architecture reviews for strategic initiatives and provide oversight on architectural decisions, design quality, and technology risk management.
• Ensure solution designs appropriately address architectural, security, operational, and regulatory requirements relevant to the client and business context.
• Act as a trusted architecture advisor to clients and delivery teams, helping evaluate solution options, technology approaches, implementation considerations, and architectural trade-offs.
• Drive consistency, reusability, scalability, maintainability, and supportability across solution deliveries through the adoption of architecture standards and proven design patterns.

Key Requirements

Education and Experience

• Minimum 15 years of experience in software engineering, solution architecture, or related technology leadership roles.
• Demonstrated experience leading architecture design and governance for large-scale, high-availability, high-transaction-volume systems.
• Experience establishing architecture standards, governance frameworks, and review processes across multiple delivery teams.
• Proven experience leading and influencing cross-functional teams in complex technology environments.
• Experience supporting strategic business initiatives, technical solutioning, and major transformation