Executive Director - Senior Principal Architect | Application Platforms

What you'll do

• Set architecture strategy across products, applications, and technologies; advise leadership on target-state decisions and emerging capabilities.
• Establish architecture governance, reusable frameworks, standards, metrics, and guardrails across teams and domains.
• Guide responsible adoption of enterprise-authorized AI in architecture and engineering workflows, with validation, traceability, and sensitive-data controls.

What they ask for

• 10+ years of applied experience and formal training or certification in architecture concepts.
• Practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability; expertise in one or more architecture disciplines.
• Extensive practical cloud-native experience and strong understanding of hybrid and multi-cloud operational models.
• Demonstrated cross-functional architecture leadership and experience safely adopting enterprise-authorized AI in architecture workflows.

Nice to have

• Advanced certifications in cloud, enterprise architecture, ITSM, SRE, or security.
• Expertise in operational automation, event intelligence, self-healing workflows, or enterprise CMDB and asset intelligence; familiarity with financial-services regulatory and control frameworks.

Pay

Jersey City, NJ: USD 232,750.00–USD 325,000.00 base salary; McLean, VA: USD 232,750.00–USD 325,000.00 base salary

Tools

cloud native, hybrid and multi-cloud, enterprise CMDB

AI focus

Leads reuse-first adoption of enterprise-authorized AI and agentic workflows for architecture analysis, option evaluation, and delivery, with human validation, sensitive-data handling, traceability, auditability, resiliency, and security controls.