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Job Summary
• The Principal Software Architect is responsible for the design, ownership, and ongoing development of mission‑critical platforms supporting the HP App and HP Smart content management systems. This role provides architectural leadership across foundational systems, custom‑built tools, and emerging AI capabilities that directly enable campaign execution, revenue generation, and long‑term platform scalability.

The position plays a central role in ensuring platform continuity, development velocity, and operational stability by maintaining deep institutional knowledge of core systems and reducing dependency on external vendors.

Responsibilities
• Own and maintain the contentstack that supports all HP App and HP Smart campaigns, ensuring reliability and on time delivery of customer facing releases. 

• Architect, develop, and evolve foundational platforms and infrastructure critical to campaign operations and program delivery. 

Build and maintain revenue driving capabilities within the platform. 
• Partner closely with product, engineering, and monetization stakeholders to align platform capabilities with business and revenue objectives. 
• Design and deliver custom proprietary tools. 
• Provide technical leadership and platform ownership. 
• Support future focused initiatives, including defining and enabling AI agent development. 

• Leads the building of standards, designs, and automates the deployment of software.
• Assists supervisors with project development, including documentation of features, recording of progress, and creation of the testing plan.
• Assists in scheduling, determining manpower requirements, and estimating costs to project completion in order to meet user requirements.
• Contributes innovative ideas and may lead large cross-functional teams, exercising independent judgment to solve unique and complex problems impacting the business.
• Acts as a functional manager within area of expertise, developing strategy and setting functional policy and direction.
• Provides mentorship and guidance to lower-level employees.

Education & Experience Recommended
• Proven experience architecting and owning large scale, business critical platforms
• Deep experience with custom built systems, APIs, and platform tooling
• Demonstrated ability to deliver revenue impacting capabilities in production environments
• Strong understanding of AI enabled solutions and their application to translation, automation, and future agent based systems.

• Four-year or Graduate Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or any other related discipline or commensurate work experience or demonstrated competence.
• Typically has 10+ years of work experience, preferably in software designing & development, software architecture, programming languages, or a related field.

Preferred Certifications
• Programming Language/s Certification (Java, C++, Python)

Knowledge & Skills

• System analysis

• Project management

• C++ (Programming Language)

• Java (Programming Language)
• Python (Programming Language)
• Software design principles

• Strong communication

• Problem solving

•Strategic thinking

•Leadership

Cross-Org Skills
• Effective Communication
• Results Orientation
• Learning Agility
• Digital Fluency
• Customer Centricity

Impact & Scope
• Impacts large functions and leads large, cross-division functional teams or projects.

Complexity
• Provides highly innovative solutions to complex problems within established policy.

Disclaimer
• This job description describes the general nature and level of work performed in this role. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, skills, responsibilities, knowledge, etc. These may be subject to change and additional functions may be assigned as needed by management.

The pay range for this role is $147,050 to $230,850 USD annually with additional opportunities for pay in the form of bonus and/or equity (applies to United States of America candidates only). Pay varies by work location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Benefits:

HP offers a comprehensive benefits package for this position, including:

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Long term/short term disability insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Life insurance
• Generous time off policies, including;
• 4-12 weeks fully paid parental leave based on tenure
• 11 paid holidays
• Additional flexible paid vacation and sick leave (US benefits overview)

The compensation and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time, with or without notice, subject to applicable law.

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