# Principal Architect - DEX & AI

The role DDN is looking for a hands-on principal architect who can set technical direction and build solutions across digital workplace, end-user computing, enterprise service management, and AI. This is a senior individual-contributor role, and the architect will write code, develop proofs of concept, build integrations, and help deliver agentic AI and other automation solutions into production. The role combines broad architecture ownership with practical engineering, sound security judgment, and close collaboration with platform teams. What you’ll do Architecture and hands-on engineering Develop and maintain reference architecture for Digital Employee Experience (DEX), spanning collaboration, endpoint services, identity dependencies, enterprise service management (ESM), automation and AI. Architect and help implement integrations across Google Workspace, Slack, Atlassian, ESM and endpoint platforms; resolve cross-platform design challenges with the engineering and security teams. Establish reusable patterns for identity, APIs, access, observability, integration and automation; maintain clear technical standards and architecture decisions. Contribute to endpoint and workplace

- **Id**: 4093722
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/ddn-principal-architect-dex-ai>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Santa Clara, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T20:01:08Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T20:40:31Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4443
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Artificial Intelligence, DeFi, Crypto Exchanges, Servers & Data Center Hardware

## Company

- **Id**: 672909
- **Name**: DDN
- **Domain**: ddn.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/ddn>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 98
- **Open postings**: 8
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0.125
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 44
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 180000
- **Max**: 230000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 230000

## Technologies

- **Agentic Workflows** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Function Calling** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Gemini** — Optional: no
- **Google Workspace** — Optional: no
- **ISO 27001** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Platform Engineering** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **Slack** — Optional: no
- **SOC 2** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T20:40:31Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 44
- **Reasons**: conf:4, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T00:45:58Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 230000
- **Is top pay**: no

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