The Challenge

We are seeking a Principal Domain Architect who will define and drive the technical vision for AI-native and agentic systems across the platform. This role combines deep system architecture expertise, AI innovation, and strategic technology leadership to build scalable, reliable, and enterprise-grade solutions. The Principal Architect will work closely with Product, AI Platform teams, Architecture Guild, and engineering leadership to guide the design of complex distributed systems, influence the product roadmap, and drive the adoption of modern AI-native architectures across the organization. This leader is expected to identify emerging engineering advancements and translate them into strategic business opportunities, while improving engineering efficiency and technical excellence across products.

Your Mission

• Define and deliver architecture for AI-native agentic systems, enabling scalable and enterprise-grade multi-agent solutions.
• Create and evaluate failure mode scenarios for agentic workflows and incorporate architectural safeguards to ensure resilience and reliability.
• Provide deep expertise in LLM architectures, prompt engineering, RAG approaches, model selection, model training, LoRA knowledge, cost optimization, performance, security, and quality considerations.
• Drive technology transformation within the domain, enabling teams to adopt modern AI-native architectures and engineering practices.
• Stay current with rapid advancements in the agentic AI ecosystem, continuously evaluating emerging frameworks, tools, and architectural patterns.
• Champion technical exploration and spikes to test new ideas, validate feasibility, and guide long-term architectural decisions.
• Collaborate closely with the AI Platform team to influence platform capabilities and ensure alignment with enterprise architecture.
• Define metrics, evaluation frameworks, and observability standards for agentic systems.
• Provide architectural guidance and oversight to engineering squads, reviewing designs and co-creating solutions for complex initiatives.
• Act as a technology leader for the domain, influencing the Architecture Guild and driving best practices across engineering teams.
• Ensure teams adopt architecture governance standards and best practices.
• Champion technical controls and disciplined engineering practices to proactively manage architectural complexity and technical debt.
• Design and build high-performance distributed systems capable of supporting enterprise workloads.
• Recognize industry trends and proactively influence the product and engineering roadmap.
• Mentor engineers and architects, strengthening the organization’s technical leadership and architectural maturity.

Architecture Leadership

• Design large-scale distributed systems and AI-powered architectures that support multiple products and integrations.
• Create and maintain architecture models, system diagrams, and technical design documentation covering current and future state architecture.
• Conceive and evolve product and service architectures ensuring scalability, reliability, and operational efficiency.
• Ensure systems are designed for high availability, performance, and ease of operations.

Strategic Technology Leadership

• Contribute to company-level engineering strategy and evaluate the business impact of emerging technologies.
• Lead engineering initiatives to improve platform capabilities and engineering productivity.
• Participate in strategic programs that impact company-wide technical direction.
• Influence cross-organizational architecture decisions and collaborate with Director and VP level stakeholders.

Engineering Excellence

• Recommend technologies and frameworks that increase engineering productivity and system reliability.
• Oversee technical aspects of major initiatives and ensure high engineering standards.
• Mentor engineers and technical leaders to strengthen system design capabilities and engineering best practices.

You Are

• A highly skilled technical leader with strong architectural vision.
• An analytical thinker with strong problem-solving and system design skills.
• A strong communicator capable of influencing leadership and cross-functional teams.
• Passionate about mentoring engineers and improving technical excellence across the organization.

Your Experience Includes

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 16+ years of software engineering experience with deep expertise in distributed systems.
• Extensive experience with Java-based development using REST APIs, Spring Boot, and microservices architectures.
• Strong experience designing distributed, asynchronous, and event-driven architectures.
• Expertise building low-latency, high-throughput data pipelines and large-scale data platforms.
• Experience with data streaming and event processing technologies such as Kafka, Kinesis, Spark, or Flink.
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, distributed algorithms, and system programming.
• Experience with fault-tolerant messaging systems such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, AMQ, or ZeroMQ.
• Experience working with distributed data stores including MongoDB, Cassandra, CockroachDB, or CouchDB.
• Experience integrating applications with search platforms such as Elasticsearch or Solr.
• Proven experience mentoring engineers and building strong engineering practices.
• Strong ability to create and maintain architecture documentation and system design artifacts.
• Excellent leadership, verbal, and written communication skills.

Extra Impressive  

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• Experience running large-scale web services and distributed platforms.
• Deep understanding of system performance tradeoffs, load balancing, and high-availability architectures.
• Experience with cloud-native and serverless architectures.
• Experience designing graph-based data models and graph architectures.
• Experience building AI-native platforms or LLM-powered systems.

About The Weather Company:

The Weather Company is the world’s leading weather provider, helping people and businesses make more informed decisions and take action in the face of weather. Together with advanced technology and AI, The Weather Company’s high-volume weather data, insights, advertising, and media solutions across the open web help people, businesses, and brands around the world prepare for and harness the power of weather in a scalable, privacy-forward way. The world’s most accurate forecaster globally, the company reaches hundreds of enterprise clients and more than 360 million monthly active users via its digital properties from The Weather Channel (weather.com) and Weather Underground (wunderground.com).

Job brief:

We’re seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and operate large-scale, data-intensive platforms in the cloud. In this role, you’ll be responsible for developing reliable data pipelines, scalable data processing systems, and high-availability architectures that support analytics, machine learning, and data science use cases.

You’ll work with modern big data technologies and AWS services, contribute hands-on code, lead smaller data initiatives, and mentor junior engineers. This is an ideal role for someone who thrives in complex data environments, values strong engineering fundamentals, and enjoys turning raw data into dependable, production-ready systems.

The impact you'll make:

• Designs and implements sophisticated software systems using either object-oriented or functional programming techniques implemented in Python, Scala or Java languages.
• Participate in, and adhere to, professional software engineering practices using such tools and methodologies as Agile Software Development, Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration, Source Code Management (git), Jira, and Stash
• Maintain an advanced level of proficiency with Computer Science/Software Engineering knowledge.
• Work well independently and as part of a team, mentoring junior engineers in routine, less-complex tasks, and leading small projects
• Other duties as assigned.

What you've accomplished:

• Bachelor's or Master's in a related field, or commensurate experience
• 5+ years in Computer Science, with a proven track record of successful projects.
• 5+ years of experience operating and deploying solutions using AWS Service including S3, EMR, SQS, SNS, Lambdas, Athena, Glue, Kinesis, and MSK.
• 5+ years of experience with one or more of the following programming languages: Python, Scala, or Java
• 5+ years of experience with SQL.
• 5+ years of experience with big data technologies such as Cassandra, Spark, Hadoop, Parquet, Redash, etc.
• Advanced proficiency in building data integrations using both API and file-based protocols.
• Advanced proficiency with test-driven development and unit testing.
• Experience with Git Version Control or similar
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline patterns and best practices
• Proficiency with alerting and monitoring tools like Grafana
• Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies and languages.
• Able to put together process documentation concisely and clearly.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Able to work closely and effectively with peer developers and work on several active projects simultaneously, including leading small projects.
• Solid experience implementing high-availability, scalable cloud solutions
• Strong understanding of data structures and algorithms
• Solid knowledge of functional programming languages and techniques, and object-oriented programming languages and techniques
• Solid knowledge of concurrency and concurrent programming techniquess and distributed computing techniques
• Knowledge and understanding of operating with data in large scale, including Machine Learning and Data Science concepts

Who we seek:

We are expanding our Solutions Engineering team. We're always looking for top Engineers to join our winning team. This team works closely with innovative companies interested in leveraging BigID’s platform. You will use your knowledge to influence customer decisions, provide insightful solutions, and drive successful proof-of-value implementations. With your potent technical capabilities, critical and creative thinking, and passion for fast-paced problem-solving, be ready to hit the ground running.

We're seeking someone based in EST.

What you’ll do:

• Work with the Sales team as the technical subject matter expert for BigID’s platform during customer calls and presentations
• Use market and technical knowledge to consult on best practices and offer constructive direction for solution architecture and design
• Stay up-to-date on relevant competitive solutions, products, and services/offerings
• Drive customer success with real-world knowledge and recommendations
• Develop a trusted advisory role with customers, communicating upcoming product changes, enhancements, and serving as an internal voice of the customer
• Work with the post-sales teams to ensure every customer realizes the value of the BigID Platform and continues to contribute to the success of BigID customers

What you’ll bring:

• Interpersonal communication, customer relationship, executive presentation skills
• Excellent organization skills and ability to multitask in a fast-paced startup environment
• Demonstrated ability to address customer needs and provide best practices
• Strong background in Big Data, AI, privacy, data governance, or information security
• Good troubleshooting abilities and a methodical approach
• Ability to describe complex technical concepts to diverse audiences: executives, business stakeholders, and technology practitioners
• Passion for demonstrating solutions and ability to provide technical input during the sales process
• Broad understanding of enterprise data architecture, privacy, and security technologies
• Ability to plan, execute and close out a Proof of Concept with minimal assistance and oversight
• Desire to share knowledge through excellent documentation creation and RFI/RFP responses
• Some prior experience with one or more of the following: RDBMS systems, no-SQL data stores (MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB), Hadoop technologies (such HDFS, Hive, HBase), cloud technologies (AWS EMR, S3, DynamoDB, Redshift, Azure file and blob storage, etc.)
• Prior experience with Identity and Access Management or Data Loss Prevention tools is a plus
• Proficient in Linux and container framework (Docker and Kubernetes)
• Minimum of 3 years in a pre-sales or consulting role within a multinational environment
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related discipline (master’s degree a plus)

Our Values:

We look for people who embody our values - Care, Do,Try & Shine.

• Care - We care about our customers and each other
• Do - We do what it takes to make a positive impact
• Try - We try our best and we don’t give up
• Shine - We shine and make it our mission to always stand out

BigBenefits: 

💻 Work from home with a global remote-first community

 Global Culture Corner

 Flexible PTO and Quarterly Volunteer Days

💸 Equity Participation

 100% employer-covered medical, dental, and vision options available to you

🐶 Additional insurance benefits like pet insurance and legal assistance 

📚 Learning & Development Opportunities 

Fidelity Employer Sponsored 401K 

 Paid Parental Leave

The annual base salary range is $135,000 - $150,000. Actual salaries will vary and are based on a candidate’s qualifications, skills, and competencies. Salary is just one component of our Compensation Philosophy. Variable/Bonus Compensation & Equity Incentives align with individual and company performance.

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