Principal AI & Cloud Solutions Architect

Symphony Industrial AI, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

SymphonyAI Financial Services seeks a Principal Solution Architect to lead architecture across multiple strategic client programs, shaping the technical vision and setting patterns and standards that guide delivery.

You’ll solve complex problems across cloud, data, integration, AI, and regulatory platforms while advising client CIO/CTO teams and working with engagement leaders, Product, Engineering, and delivery teams.

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 banking, financial crime, risk, regulatory reporting, or other regulated environments.
• A track record of setting direction and governance across multiple programs.
• Modernization experience across on-prem, hosted, hybrid, and SaaS environments.
• Strong cloud and deployment knowledge across AWS, Azure, OCI, or GCP, with containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and infra automation.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture. Own architecture direction across multiple strategic client programs and make clear technical trade-offs within your mandate.
• Set the standard. Define reference architectures, reusable integration patterns, and governance standards that teams can apply across client programs.
• Modernize complex systems. Design scalable solutions across cloud, data, integration, AI, financial crime, regulatory, and core banking environments.
• Build for production. Ensure solutions meet requirements for security, resilience, scalability, performance, observability, and maintainability.
• Put AI to work responsibly. Define architecture patterns and production standards for LLMs, RAG, vector retrieval, model integration, monitoring, and governance.
• Advise senior clients. Work with client CIO and CTO teams on modernization strategy, architecture decisions, risks, and priorities.
• Shape strategic opportunities. Support proposals, RFP responses, discovery sessions, architecture workshops, and technical sales discussions.
• Connect delivery and product. Bring client and implementation insight to Product and Engineering to influence platform scalability, roadmap decisions, and technical strategy.
• Help others grow. Develop IC3 and IC4 architects and strengthen architecture practices across the team.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Cloud platforms

AI platforms

Data architecture

REST APIs

Messaging systems

Stakeholder mgmt

Leadership

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Tools

JBoss

WebSphere

WildFly

Job description

SymphonyAI Financial Services seeks a Principal Solution Architect to lead architecture across multiple strategic client programs, shaping the technical vision and setting patterns and standards that guide delivery.

You’ll solve complex problems across cloud, data, integration, AI, and regulatory platforms while advising client CIO/CTO teams and working with engagement leaders, Product, Engineering, and delivery teams.