Senior Principal Solutions Architect - Cloud & Data

Insight Global; United States; On-site; USD 230,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401k with company match

Paid time off

Job summary

Insight Global is seeking a highly senior Principal Architect to shape the architecture strategy across a global technology organization supporting 1,000+ engineers and some of the highest-scale consumer platforms in the world.

The ideal candidate brings deep experience in designing consumer-facing applications, with expertise in AWS, Kafka, Databricks, event-driven architectures, microservices, distributed systems, and modern data platforms.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of Principal-level Architect experience within large-scale technology organizations.
• Strong background designing and evolving high-volume consumer-facing platforms.
• Deep experience leading legacy modernization, re-platforming, cloud migration, and platform consolidation initiatives in complex enterprise environments.
• Expertise in AWS, Kafka, event-driven architectures, distributed systems, and modern microservices patterns.
• Experience working with data platforms and analytics ecosystems, including Databricks and data architecture concepts (modeling, governance, and integration).
• Strong understanding of Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and how to define domain boundaries, ownership models, and scalable architectural patterns.
• Proven ability to evaluate technical tradeoffs and make architecture decisions balancing business goals, scalability, cost, risk, and engineering effort.
• Able to influence without authority, build consensus across teams, and communicate effectively from the C-suite to hands-on engineers.
• Experience in large, complex environments with significant platform sprawl, technical debt, and modernization challenges.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional initiatives, influence technical direction across multiple engineering teams, and drive modernization efforts across a complex ecosystem of legacy and modern platforms.
• Shape the architecture strategy across a global technology organization supporting 1,000+ engineers and some of the highest-scale consumer platforms in the world.
• Operate autonomously, influence without direct authority, and communicate effectively from the C-suite down to engineering teams, balancing priorities.

Skills

Principal Architect experience

Consumer-facing platforms

Legacy modernization

Cloud migration

Architecture strategy

AWS

Kafka

Databricks

Event-driven architectures

Domain-Driven Design

Communication to C-suite

Platform consolidation

Distributed systems

Job description

Insight Global is seeking a highly senior Principal Architect to shape the architecture strategy across a global technology organization supporting 1,000+ engineers and some of the highest-scale consumer platforms in the world.

The ideal candidate brings deep experience in designing consumer-facing applications, with expertise in AWS, Kafka, Databricks, event-driven architectures, microservices, distributed systems, and modern data platforms.