Principal Solutions Archtect

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Job Title: Senior Principal Solutions Architect
Location-Type: Remote (U.S. - Central or Eastern Time Preferred)
Start Date Is: ASAP
Compensation Range : $85-95/ hr W2
Duration: 6-Month Contract (Likely Extension)
Benefits:  Eligible for Health, Dental, Vision, 401K
Must be authorized to work in the U.S. This position is not eligible for sponsorship .

Job Description

The Senior Principal Solutions Architect will provide enterprise architecture leadership for a large-scale digital transformation initiative focused on modernizing distributed systems, enabling AI-powered decision making, and designing scalable event-driven architectures. This is a highly strategic, client-facing consulting role responsible for defining technical direction, facilitating architecture decisions, and partnering with executive stakeholders to solve complex business and technology challenges.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise architecture strategy across complex distributed systems.
• Design scalable event-driven and real-time streaming architectures.
• Map enterprise application dependencies and system capabilities.
• Create architecture diagrams, technical roadmaps, decision records, and planning artifacts.
• Facilitate architecture workshops and technical design sessions with engineering teams and executive stakeholders.
• Drive modernization initiatives for legacy applications and services.
• Evaluate technical tradeoffs, scalability, concurrency, resiliency, and fault-tolerant system design.
• Partner with engineering, product, and business teams to align architecture with business objectives.
• Contribute to AI-enabled enterprise architecture initiatives, including enterprise context graphs and MCP server strategy.
• Guide technical direction while mentoring engineering teams and influencing architecture best practices.
• Collaborate across multiple business units to improve data flow, pricing systems, and enterprise integration strategies.

Minimum Requirements

• 10 years of Enterprise or Solutions Architecture experience.
• Experience architecting large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong background designing event-driven and real-time streaming applications.
• Deep understanding of enterprise architecture, dependency mapping, and system integration.
• Experience designing highly available, low-latency, fault-tolerant architectures.
• Strong knowledge of:
  • Java
  • Kafka
  • Kubernetes
  • Spring Boot
  • AWS
  • Cassandra
  • TypeScript
  • GraphQL
  • REST APIs
  • Databricks
  • Protocol Buffers (Protobuf)
• Experience leading architecture strategy rather than hands-on software development.
• Exceptional executive communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience facilitating architecture decision-making across multiple engineering teams.
• Strong understanding of Domain-Driven Design (DDD).
• Experience documenting architecture decisions, tradeoff analysis, and technical roadmaps.
• Experience working with AI-assisted development tools and modern engineering practices.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with MCP (Model Context Protocol).
• Experience leveraging Claude or similar AI platforms.
• Experience designing enterprise context graphs.
• Dynamic pricing, pricing optimization, or revenue optimization experience.
• Experience within ticketing, eCommerce, fintech, or other high-volume transactional platforms.
• Consulting or technology advisory background.
• Experience mentoring senior engineers and architects.
• Familiarity with SPADE or Architecture Decision Records (ADRs).