Principal AI & Cloud Solution Architect

SymphonyAI Industrial, Inc.; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

SymphonyAI Financial Services is seeking a Principal Solution Architect to lead architecture across strategic client programs, shaping technical vision, setting patterns, and governing AI capabilities in production. You will advise CIO/CTO teams and collaborate with Product, Engineering, and delivery for scalable, secure solutions.

The role requires deep experience in cloud, data, AI, and regulatory environments, with a focus on modernization and governance across complex financial systems.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of enterprise technology experience with architecture leadership across strategic client programs.
• Strong enterprise architecture skills across cloud, data, integration, AI platforms, and distributed systems.
• Financial services experience across regulated environments and regulatory reporting.
• Track record of setting direction and establishing standards used by delivery teams.
• Modernization experience across on-premise, hosted, hybrid, and SaaS environments.
• Cloud deployment knowledge across AWS, Azure, OCI, or GCP; containers, Kubernetes, Helm, CI/CD, and infrastructure automation.
• Integration and data platform experience with REST APIs, messaging, event-driven systems, Kafka, Spark, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, or similar technologies.
• Practical enterprise AI experience with LLMs, RAG, vector retrieval, model endpoints, monitoring, or governance.
• Executive stakeholder skills; ability to explain trade-offs and align leaders.
• Ownership mindset; drive architecture direction while delivering with delivery teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture across multiple strategic client programs and define clear technical trade-offs.
• Define reference architectures, reusable integration patterns, and governance standards.
• Design scalable solutions across cloud, data, integration, AI, financial crime, regulatory, and core banking environments.
• Ensure solutions meet security, resilience, scalability, performance, observability, and maintainability.
• Define architecture patterns and production standards for LLMs, RAG, vector retrieval, and governance.
• Advise client CIO/CTO teams on modernization strategy, risks, and priorities.
• Support proposals, discovery sessions, architecture workshops, and technical sales discussions.
• Bridge delivery and product to influence platform scalability and roadmap decisions.
• Mentor and grow IC3/IC4 architects and strengthen architecture practices.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Cloud, data, AI platforms

Executive communication

Modernization strategies

Strategic program leadership

Stakeholder management

Ownership mindset

AI governance

Architectural decision making

Tools

AWS

Azure

OCI

GCP

Kubernetes

Helm

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

REST APIs

Kafka

Spark

Snowflake

Oracle

PostgreSQL

Job description

SymphonyAI Financial Services is seeking a Principal Solution Architect to lead architecture across strategic client programs, shaping technical vision, setting patterns, and governing AI capabilities in production. You will advise CIO/CTO teams and collaborate with Product, Engineering, and delivery for scalable, secure solutions.

The role requires deep experience in cloud, data, AI, and regulatory environments, with a focus on modernization and governance across complex financial systems.