Principal Technical Architect

Photon; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Photon is seeking a Technical Architect with extensive software engineering leadership to drive large-scale system design and cross-functional initiatives. The role emphasizes cloud platforms (AWS), DevOps, CI/CD automation, and secure development practices across multiple domains.

The candidate will lead architectural decisions, influence product strategy, and push for advanced observability and release automation in distributed environments, including AI-enabled development practices.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of progressive software engineering experience.
• Deep experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred).
• Proven ability to design, scale, and optimize systems serving millions of users.
• Strong understanding of security engineering and secure development practices.
• Experience with mobile infrastructure, feature deployment frameworks, and release automation.
• Expertise in integration platforms and enterprise workflow automation.
• Experience with AI-assisted development and developer productivity tools.
• 7+ years leading engineering initiatives with measurable business impact.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of large-scale system design and technical architecture across multiple domains.
• Lead cross-functional teams to drive architectural decisions and roadmaps.
• Influence product strategy, investments, and AI adoption through credibility and technical insight.
• Drive security, observability, and performance improvements in distributed environments.

Skills

Cloud platforms (AWS)

DevOps

CI/CD automation

Security engineering

Observability

Event-driven systems

Technical leadership

Architectural design

cross-functional leadership

AI-assisted development

Job description

For the past 20 years, we have powered many Digital Experiences for the Fortune 500. Since 1999, we have grown from a few people to more than 4000 team members across the globe that are engaged in various Digital Modernization. Our current focus and innovation in Digital Hyper expansion TM offers nearly limitless opportunities for career growth. For a brief 1-minute video about us, you can check out https://youtu.be/uJWBWQZEA6o.

Photon is an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We bring out the best in each other

Technical Architect:

Required Qualifications Technical Expertise

• 15+ years of progressive software engineering experience, with demonstrated expertise in large-scale system design, technical architecture, and cross-functional leadership across multiple technology domains.
• Deep experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred), DevOps practices, and CI/CD automation.
• Proven ability to design, scale, and optimize systems supporting millions of users.
• Strong understanding of security engineering, compliance standards, and secure development practices.
• Experience with mobile infrastructure, crash analytics, feature deployment frameworks, and release automation.
• Expertise in integration platforms, vendor ecosystems, and enterprise workflow automation.
• Experience using AI-assisted development, agentic software engineering, automation, or emerging developer productivity tools to improve how teams design, build, test, deploy, and operate software.
• Strong background in monitoring, observability, event-driven systems, and operational analytics.
• Spec-first practice — authors complete technical specifications and drives design reviews from written artifacts
• Proven ability to take ownership of an existing codebase, standards set, and roadmap at speed
• Proven ability to influence product strategy, investment decisions, technical direction, AI adoption, and business outcomes through credibility, clarity, sound judgement, and technical insight.
• 7+ years of demonstrated track record of leading engineering initiatives with measurable business impact in a distributed environment (Retail, Hospitality, etc)