Principal Solution Architect

Veriipro; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Veriipro is seeking a Principal Solution Architect to support a high-profile Enterprise Architecture team in Washington, D.C. This role involves translating complex customer data requirements into high-performance solution architectures for a leading travel and transportation organization.

The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of experience in solution architecture, with strong skills in data optimization and integration. Your mission is to align solutions with enterprise governance, ensuring compliance with data privacy standards.

Qualifications

• 10+ years experience in solution architecture or related roles.
• Strong experience with loyalty programs and omni-channel marketing.
• Expertise in event-driven architectures and data pipeline technologies.

Responsibilities

• Assess marketing and customer data ecosystem for optimizations.
• Design solution architectures and data flow diagrams.
• Ensure solutions meet enterprise governance and data privacy standards.

Skills

Solution architecture

Data flows optimization

Integration patterns

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

APIs and microservices

Tools

AWS services

Kafka/MSK

ETL technologies (Airflow, NiFi)

CRM platforms (Salesforce)

MarTech solutions (Adobe, Braze)

Job description

We are seeking a Principal Solution Architect to support a high‑profile Enterprise Architecture team for a leading travel and transportation organization. In this role, you will translate complex marketing, loyalty, and customer data requirements into scalable, high‑performance solution architectures. The ideal candidate will quickly assess system bottlenecks, optimize data flows, and design integrations across a complex Customer Data Platform (CDP) and MarTech ecosystem while ensuring alignment with enterprise governance, scalability, and data privacy standards.

Primary Responsibilities

• Assess the current marketing and customer data ecosystem to identify performance bottlenecks and optimization opportunities.
• Design high‑level solution architectures, data flow diagrams, data lineage maps, and API/interface specifications.
• Evaluate multiple technical approaches for integration challenges and present tradeoffs, risks, and business impacts to stakeholders.
• Partner with marketing, product, and engineering teams to gather requirements and translate business needs into technical solutions.
• Ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture standards, governance frameworks, and data privacy regulations (GDPR/CCPA).
• Support integration strategies involving real‑time event‑driven architectures, messaging platforms, and data pipelines.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in solution architecture, enterprise architecture, or related technical leadership roles.
• Strong experience designing solutions for loyalty programs, customer profiles, segmentation, personalization, and omni‑channel marketing initiatives.
• Expertise in integration patterns, event‑driven architectures, Kafka/MSK, APIs, and ETL/data pipeline technologies (Airflow, NiFi preferred).
• Solid understanding of Customer Data Platforms (CDP), identity resolution, and data modeling principles.
• Hands‑on knowledge of AWS services, including EC2, containers, serverless technologies, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, and networking/security fundamentals.
• Broad technical understanding of APIs, microservices, CRM platforms (Salesforce), and MarTech solutions (Adobe, Braze).
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to non‑technical audiences.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in the travel, hospitality, aviation, or transportation industries.
• Familiarity with booking lifecycle processes (Search, Offer, Order, Fulfillment) and Passenger Service Systems (PSS).
• Knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF.
• Experience with PII governance, consent management, and regulatory compliance.