# Principal Solution Architect, Platform Engineering

Job Description About the role Reporting to the Head of Architecture for Platform Engineering, the Principal Solution Architect plays a crucial role in designing and delivering enterprise platform capabilities. Platform Engineering is chartered to deliver the shared capabilities that product engineering teams use to deliver secure, reliable, performant, high-quality products to clients faster. Platform Engineering’s portfolio spans AI Engineering, API & Event Management, Front End, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Developer Experience & Quality, and Customer Identity & Access Management. This role’s primary focus is AI Engineering: architecting how AI and agentic capabilities are built into the software development lifecycle (SDLC) so that engineering teams can deliver higher-quality software faster and more safely. You will shape the patterns, platforms, and guardrails that move teams from individual AI assistance to governed, agent-driven workflows at enterprise scale. Like every architect on the team, you will also contribute across all platform domains and may lead initiatives in any of them, so broad, enterprise-level platform thinking and engineering excellence are as esse

- **Id**: 4044691
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/fis-principal-solution-architect-platform-engineering-2>
- **Role**: Solutions
- **Role family**: Solutions
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T23:26:32Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T23:26:32Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 10387
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Financial Software & Embedded Finance, Payment Processing & Gateways

## Company

- **Id**: 4808
- **Name**: FIS
- **Domain**: fisglobal.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/fis>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 83
- **Open postings**: 90
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.678
- **Repost share**: 0.033
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 27
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Context Engineering** — Optional: no
- **Function Calling** — Optional: no
- **GitOps** — Optional: no
- **Human-in-the-Loop** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **LLM Guardrails** — Optional: no
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: no
- **Multi-Agent Systems** — Optional: no
- **Platform Engineering** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no

## Trust

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

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T23:26:32Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 27
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T01:42:30Z

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