Principal Solutions Archtect
Chicago, IL, 60602
Apply now: Senior Principal Solutions Architect, location is Remote (U.S. - Central or Eastern Time preferred). The start date is ASAP for this 6-month contract position with strong potential for extension.
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).
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