Principal Architect, Enterprise - AI Transformation/SaaS/PaaS

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Principal Architect, Enterprise - AI Transformation/SaaS/PaaS based in United States.

This is a senior enterprise architecture role responsible for shaping the long-term technology direction of a complex organization.

You will provide deep technical leadership across enterprise architecture programs, strategic initiatives, and large-scale technology transformations.

The role combines enterprise architecture, systems integration, cloud implementation, strategic planning, and business alignment.

You will translate business priorities into scalable technology solutions spanning multiple platforms, applications, operating systems, and environments.

You will also help guide AI, SaaS, PaaS, cloud, and broader technology transformation initiatives while evaluating emerging industry and technology trends.

The position requires strong executive communication, cross-functional influence, and the ability to lead architecture decisions within a highly matrixed environment.

This opportunity is well suited to an experienced technology leader who can balance strategic vision with hands-on technical expertise and mentor architecture teams.

Accountabilities:

• Serve as a senior technical authority on complex enterprise IT consulting initiatives, providing architecture leadership and helping ensure successful enterprise application rollouts.
• Lead cross-functional enterprise architecture programs, transformation initiatives, and organizational change efforts across business and technology teams.
• Support mergers and acquisitions by leading technology integration activities and ensuring architecture alignment across integrated environments.
• Establish and implement architecture standards, principles, guidelines, and processes that support scalable technology solutions across multiple platforms, operating systems, and applications.
• Apply broad expertise across software development, hardware, data, systems, and technology platforms to design and support enterprise solutions.
• Align IT strategy, architecture planning, and technology investments with broader business goals and objectives.
• Drive the creation and execution of long-term strategic roadmaps for enterprise IT architecture, integrating business and service strategies into future-state architecture plans.
• Partner with business leaders and technology subject-matter experts to understand requirements and translate them into effective, scalable technology solutions.
• Provide technical leadership for large-scale enterprise projects and initiatives, ensuring proposed solutions align with established architecture principles and standards.
• Analyze industry, technology, and market trends to identify emerging opportunities, risks, and potential impacts on the enterprise technology landscape.
• Assess current business and IT environments to identify critical deficiencies and recommend architecture, process, or technology improvements.
• Drive adoption of updated enterprise policies, processes, architecture guidelines, and standards.
• Advise program and project teams on solution design and architectural alignment across business, application, data, technology, and other architecture viewpoints.
• Define organizational requirements related to resources, structure, and cultural changes needed to support a mature enterprise architecture function.
• Prepare senior-level position papers and lead executive briefings on architecture strategy, technology decisions, and transformation initiatives.
• Provide training, mentoring, and ongoing support to new and existing enterprise IT architecture team members.

Requirements:

• At least 8 years of IT experience developing enterprise architecture models and strategic roadmaps, along with experience in systems integration design, development, and implementation, or an equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
• At least 3 years of management or technical leadership experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Statistics, Business, Healthcare, Engineering, or a related field.
• Advanced understanding of IT architecture and the software development lifecycle.
• Advanced information systems and program expertise spanning multiple technologies, platforms, processing environments, and components of enterprise technical architecture.
• Experience with Microsoft .NET platform development or Java development.
• Hands-on cloud implementation experience with Azure, GCP, AWS, or a combination of these platforms.
• Knowledge of healthcare payer processes, industry practices, and technology trends.
• Ability to execute data queries and analysis to support fact-based technology and business decisions.
• Strong analytical, critical-thinking, strategic-planning, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with process design, continuous improvement, and strategic transformation.
• Strong project management, organizational, and time-management capabilities.
• Demonstrated ability to quickly learn, research, and evaluate new concepts, technologies, and emerging ideas.
• Ability to collaborate across functions within a highly matrixed organization and influence stakeholders toward scalable enterprise solutions.
• Excellent verbal, written, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills, including the ability to brief senior executives.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools, including advanced Excel, as well as SQL.
• Preferred experience with The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) methodology or framework.
• Preferred managed care experience, including knowledge of healthcare payer systems, standards, and protocols.
• Preferred understanding of healthcare industry regulations and compliance requirements.

Benefits:

• Annual salary range of $96,325.57-$208,705.40, with actual compensation varying based on geographic location, work experience, education, skills, and other relevant factors.
• Full-time position based in the United States.
• Competitive compensation and benefits package.
• Opportunity to lead high-impact enterprise architecture, technology transformation, and strategic IT initiatives.
• Exposure to cloud technologies, enterprise systems integration, AI transformation, and SaaS/PaaS environments.
• Leadership and mentoring opportunities within an enterprise architecture organization.
• Opportunity to influence long-term technology strategy and collaborate with senior business and technology stakeholders.
• Work within a complex, highly matrixed environment where architecture decisions directly support broader organizational goals.
• Inclusive equal-opportunity workplace committed to fair employment practices.