# Principal Solution Architect, Platform Engineering, SRE

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 SRE: architecting the reliability, observability, and incident management capabilities that allow engineering teams to operate their products with confidence at 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 is as essential as SRE depth. What you will be doing You will make a significant impact on the company’s modernization and transformation journey by designing, documenting, and driving adoption of modern engineering patterns for nex

- **Id**: 4044689
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/fis-principal-solution-architect-platform-engineering-sre>
- **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**: 2026-11-13T01:30:48Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 9715
- **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**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 84
- **Open postings**: 91
- **Ghost share**: 0.011
- **Stale share**: 0.604
- **Repost share**: 0.033
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 27
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Technologies

- **AIOps** — Optional: no
- **IAM** — Optional: no
- **Incident Management** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **OpenTelemetry** — Optional: no
- **Platform Engineering** — Optional: no
- **Progressive Delivery** — Optional: no
- **Self-Healing** — Optional: no
- **SLI/SLO/SLA** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 2

## 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**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 27
- **Reasons**: conf:5, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

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