Principal Platform Architect

Honeywell; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Honeywell seeks a visionary Principal Platform Architect to define and driveForge Platform architecture strategy. You will establish technical direction, guide investments, and create reusable capabilities to improve product delivery, developer experience, and operational excellence.

You will influence architecture and engineering decisions across teams through collaboration, communication, and leadership. This is a senior, strategic role shaping enterprise-scale platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, computer engineering, or related field.
• 12+ years in software/ platform engineering or architecture roles.
• 5+ years delivering enterprise-scale platforms.
• 7+ years of distributed systems, APIs, microservices, event-driven architectures.
• 3+ years with at least one major cloud platform: Azure, AWS, or GCP.

Responsibilities

• Define the Platform Vision and long-term technology roadmap.
• Develop reference architectures, standards, and reusable design patterns.
• Lead architecture reviews and governance with pragmatic guardrails.
• Guide teams on scalability, security, performance, and debt management.
• Drive cloud-native, API-first, event-driven, and microservices-based approaches.
• Advance cloud and platform engineering across Azure, AWS, GCP, or hybrid environments.

Skills

Architecture leadership

Enterprise-scale platforms

Distributed systems

APIs/microservices

Cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP)

Kubernetes & containers

CI/CD & DevSecOps

Observability & SRE practices

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, computer engineering, or related technical field

Master's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Containers

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Observability tools

Job description

About the Role

The Forge Platform team is seeking a visionary and hands-on Principal Platform Architect to define and drive the platform architecture strategy. You will establish technical direction, guide strategic investments, and create reusable capabilities that improve product delivery, developer experience, and operational excellence.

You will influence architecture and engineering decisions across teams through expertise, collaboration, and clear communication.

What You'll Do

Define the Platform Vision

Own the architecture, vision, principles, and long-term technology roadmap for the Forge Platform.

Develop reference architectures, standards, and reusable design patterns that enable consistency and scale.

Drive cloud-native, API-first, event-driven, and microservices-based architectural approaches.

Align platform evolution with product priorities, business outcomes, and enterprise technology strategy.

Lead Technical Direction and Governance

Serve as the principal technical authority for platform architecture decisions and complex design challenges.

Lead architecture reviews and establish pragmatic governance, standards, and engineering guardrails.

Guide teams on scalability, resilience, security, performance, maintainability, and technical debt.

Drive architectural consistency and reuse across products, services, and engineering teams.

Advance Cloud and Platform Engineering

Define patterns for cloud-native development, deployment, and operations across Azure, AWS, GCP, or hybrid environments.

Shape architecture for Kubernetes, containers, CI/CD, DevSecOps, infrastructure-as-code, automation, and observability.

Enable secure, highly available platform services, APIs, identity capabilities, and self-service developer experiences.

Establish approaches for reliability, performance, disaster recovery, and operational readiness at scale.

Drive Innovation and Organizational Influence

Evaluate emerging technologies and lead proofs of concept for strategic platform investments.

Advance capabilities in AI/ML enablement, data integration, analytics, automation, and intelligent services.

Partner with Engineering, Product, Security, Infrastructure, Operations, and Enterprise Architecture teams.

Communicate architecture strategy, tradeoffs, and decisions to technical and executive stakeholders.

Mentor architects, principal engineers, technical leads, and senior engineers.

Must Haves

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related technical field.
• 12+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, or architecture roles.
• 5+ years of proven experience architecting and delivering enterprise-scale software platforms.
• 7+ years of expertise in distributed systems, APIs, microservices, event-driven architectures, and integration patterns.
• 3+ years of experience with at least one major cloud platform: Azure, AWS, or GCP.

We Value

• Master's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience building or scaling an internal developer platform, SaaS platform, or enterprise digital platform.
• Experience with AI/ML platforms, data ecosystems, or advanced analytics capabilities.
• Expertise in security architecture, DevSecOps, SRE, and enterprise architecture governance.
• Experience with Kubernetes, containers, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, automation, and observability.
• Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction across multiple teams without direct authority.
• Excellent communication, systems thinking, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Relevant cloud or architecture certifications.

What Success Looks Like

• A clear, actionable Forge Platform architecture roadmap aligned with business and product priorities.
• Broader adoption of reusable platform services, standards, and architectural patterns.
• Improved platform reliability, scalability, security, performance, and operational efficiency.
• Faster product delivery and a simpler, more productive developer experience.
• Strong architectural alignment across engineering organizations without unnecessary process overhead.

Why Join Us?

This is an opportunity to shape the technical foundation of the Forge Platform and influence technology strategy at an enterprise scale. Your work will help engineering teams innovate faster, build more consistently, and deliver greater value to customers.

About Honeywell

Honeywell International Inc. (Nasdaq: HON) invents and commercializes technologies that address some of the world's most critical challenges around energy, safety, security, productivity, and global urbanization. We are a leading software-industrial company committed to introducing state of the art technology solutions to improve efficiency, productivity, sustainability, and safety in high growth businesses in broad-based, attractive industrial end markets. Our products and solutions enable a safer, more comfortable, and more productive world, enhancing the quality of life o