Principal Architect, Tech Solutions — Flexible Remote

York Solutions, LLC; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) plan with discretionary company

Unlimited paid time off

Wellness reimbursements

Voluntary insurance programs

Flexible remote work

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

York Solutions is seeking a Principal Architect to transform complex client needs into scalable, practical technology solutions. The role blends client advisory, technical discovery, solution architecture, estimation, and hands-on engineering, with roughly 80% shaping opportunities and 20% supporting engagements.

You will lead discovery, design end-to-end architectures across cloud, data, security, and AI, and mentor teams while engaging executives and engineers alike.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of technology experience, including 5+ years in solution, technical, or enterprise architecture.
• Broad knowledge across application architecture, cloud platforms, data systems, APIs, integrations, distributed systems, infrastructure, security, and DevOps.
• Experience working directly with clients and senior business and technology stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical discovery sessions with client business and technology stakeholders.
• Translate ambiguous business needs into clear technical requirements and solution approaches.
• Design end-to-end solutions across applications, cloud, data, integrations, infrastructure, automation, security, and AI.
• Evaluate architecture alternatives based on scalability, maintainability, performance, security, cost, and delivery risk.
• Own the technical solution and delivery approach for TSG opportunities.
• Develop project scope, workstreams, deliverables, milestones, dependencies, team structures, and effort estimates.
• Contribute technical content to proposals, Statements of Work, RFIs, RFPs, and client presentations.
• Partner with sales, account, delivery, and leadership teams throughout the opportunity lifecycle.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to client executives, technology leaders, architects, and engineering teams.
• Communicate technical recommendations, risks, and trade-offs to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Support prototypes, proofs of concept, technical investigations, and solution validation.
• Transition proposed solutions to delivery teams and provide consultation on significant architecture decisions or risks.
• Identify practical opportunities to apply generative AI, intelligent automation, machine learning, and agentic solutions.
• Evaluate AI platforms, models, frameworks, data requirements, security, reliability, cost, and build-versus-buy options.
• Develop reusable reference architectures, solution patterns, estimation methods, templates, and accelerators.
• Mentor engineering managers, technical leads, and engineers.

Job description

York Solutions is seeking a Principal Architect to transform complex client needs into scalable, practical technology solutions. The role blends client advisory, technical discovery, solution architecture, estimation, and hands-on engineering, with roughly 80% shaping opportunities and 20% supporting engagements.

You will lead discovery, design end-to-end architectures across cloud, data, security, and AI, and mentor teams while engaging executives and engineers alike.