About the Principal Architect Role

Are you an experienced technology leader with a passion for designing enterprise architecture and modern cloud solutions? We are hiring a Principal Architect to lead large scale integration initiatives, API modernization and cloud native transformation for a leading enterprise organization based in Dallas, Texas.

This long term contract opportunity is ideal for professionals who enjoy solving complex business challenges through scalable architecture, cloud engineering and modern software design. The successful candidate will help shape the organization’s enterprise integration strategy while mentoring engineering teams and defining technical standards across multiple business units.

If you have deep expertise in Microsoft Azure, API architecture, microservices, event driven systems and enterprise architecture, this opportunity offers the chance to influence strategic technology decisions while driving innovation.

Location: Dallas, Texas

Work Model: Onsite five days per week

Employment Type: Long Term Contract

Key Responsibilities of the Principal Architect

Enterprise Architecture Leadership

Lead enterprise architecture initiatives that support long term business objectives and digital transformation goals.

Develop architecture standards and governance frameworks that improve consistency across engineering teams.

Create technology roadmaps and evaluate emerging technologies for enterprise adoption.

Mentor architects, developers and technical leaders while promoting engineering excellence.

Azure Cloud Architecture

Design secure and scalable cloud native applications using Microsoft Azure.

Define best practices for scalability, resiliency, disaster recovery and operational excellence.

Partner with platform engineering teams to improve deployment automation, developer productivity and cloud governance.

Support Infrastructure as Code initiatives and modern DevOps practices.

API Architecture and Enterprise Integration

Design enterprise API ecosystems that are secure, scalable and highly available.

Define API governance standards including versioning, security, documentation and lifecycle management.

Lead integration strategies across internal platforms, SaaS applications, third party systems and enterprise services.

Promote reusable APIs and service oriented architecture across the organization.

Event Driven Architecture

Design asynchronous integration solutions using event driven architecture.

Implement messaging patterns using technologies such as Kafka, Azure Service Bus, Event Hubs or RabbitMQ.

Develop standards for event contracts, schema governance, retries, fault tolerance and dead letter processing.

Improve system scalability and resilience through loosely coupled architecture.

Domain Driven Design

Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand business domains and translate them into scalable software architecture.

Define bounded contexts, aggregates, domain events and domain services.

Support modernization initiatives by decomposing legacy applications into domain focused services.

AI and Intelligent Engineering

Drive the adoption of AI enabled software engineering practices.

Identify opportunities where artificial intelligence can improve developer productivity and business operations.

Support initiatives involving Large Language Models, Retrieval Augmented Generation, AI Agents and Azure AI Services.

Establish responsible AI governance while maintaining security and compliance standards.

Required Skills

Technical Skills

• Microsoft Azure
• Azure API Management
• Azure Functions
• Azure Service Bus
• Event Hubs
• Azure Kubernetes Service
• Azure SQL
• Application Insights
• REST APIs
• OpenAPI
• OAuth2
• OpenID Connect
• Microservices
• Domain Driven Design
• Event Driven Architecture
• Kafka
• RabbitMQ
• Infrastructure as Code
• CI and CD
• Observability
• Distributed Systems

Preferred Skills

• .NET and C#
• Azure AI Services
• OpenTelemetry
• CQRS
• Event Sourcing
• Saga Pattern
• Large Language Models
• Retrieval Augmented Generation
• AI Agents
• Prompt Engineering
• Vector Databases

Required Experience

Candidates should possess:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related discipline.
• 10 or more years of software engineering experience.
• 5 or more years in an Architecture, Principal Engineer or Technical Leadership position.
• Proven experience designing enterprise integration platforms.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience leading architecture across multiple engineering teams.

Why Join This Opportunity?

This role offers the chance to work on enterprise scale modernization initiatives that directly impact business transformation.

You will help shape the future architecture of a large organization while working with cutting edge Azure technologies, modern API platforms, cloud native engineering practices and AI enabled software delivery.

This position is ideal for professionals who enjoy mentoring teams, influencing architectural decisions and building scalable technology platforms.

Ready to Apply?

If you are an experienced Principal Architect looking for your next enterprise challenge, we encourage you to apply today.

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Frequently Asked Questions

1. What does a Principal Architect do?

A Principal Architect defines enterprise architecture standards and guides engineering teams in designing scalable software solutions.

2. Is this role onsite?

Yes. The position requires working onsite in Dallas, Texas five days each week.

3. What cloud platform is used?

Microsoft Azure is the primary cloud platform.

4. Is Azure API Management required?

Yes. Experience with Azure API Management is highly preferred.

5. What messaging technologies are preferred?

Kafka, Azure Service Bus, Event Hubs and RabbitMQ.

6. Is microservices experience necessary?

Yes. Enterprise microservices experience is an important requirement.

7. What is Event Driven Architecture?

It is an architectural approach where systems communicate through events instead of direct service calls.

8. Is Domain Driven Design required?

Yes. Practical experience implementing Domain Driven Design is expected.

9. Is AI experience mandatory?

AI experience is preferred but candidates with strong Azure architecture backgrounds are encouraged to apply.

10. Which programming language is preferred?

Experience with .NET and C# is considered an advantage.

11. Is this a leadership position?

Yes. The role involves mentoring architects and engineering teams.

12. Is DevOps knowledge required?

Yes. Experience with CI and CD, Infrastructure as Code and cloud automation is valuable.

13. What experience level is expected?

Candidates should have at least ten years of software engineering experience and five years in architecture leadership.

14. Is this a contract role?

Yes. This is a long term contract opportunity.

15. How can I apply?

Review the job requirements carefully and submit your application if your background aligns with the role.