Principal Technical Architect – Composable, AI Platforms

Conduent

Principal Technical Architect at Conduent, leading architectural strategies for resilient hybrid platforms. Focused on modernization, composability, and AI adoption in critical business processing.

Posted 5/22/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $132,000 - $176,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AssemblyCloudMicroservices

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Partner with the Chief Technical Architect to define and evolve Conduent’s multi‑year architectural vision across platforms, products, and client solutions.
Continuously evaluate emerging technologies and architectural paradigms to ensure Conduent adopts capabilities that improve speed, resilience, maintainability, and cost efficiency.
Drive architectural decisions that emphasize composable, modular, and reusable platform components, enabling rapid solution assembly and adaptation across clients.
Balance near‑term delivery needs with long‑term sustainability, ensuring architectures avoid vendor lock‑in and excessive technical debt.
Serve as a principal architect for the design of hybrid (on‑prem + cloud) and multi‑region production architectures supporting large‑scale transaction processing.
Define and refine reference architectures, patterns, and standards used across Commercial solutions.
Ensure architectures are engineered for resiliency, scalability, observability, and operational simplicity.
Act as an escalation point for complex architectural trade studies, risk assessments, and production impact decisions.
Lead research and technical design for application and platform modernization, including containerization, workload decomposition, and cloud‑native transformation.
Promote architectures that enable composable services, API‑driven integration, and platform reuse, reducing time‑to‑market for new client solutions.
Drive enterprise‑level AI adoption strategy, including GenAI, ML‑driven automation, intelligent document processing, decision engines, and agent‑based workflows.
Ensure AI‑enabled architectures are secure, governed, auditable, and production‑ready, aligning innovation with enterprise guardrails.

Requirements

What you’ll need

15+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, platform architecture, or large‑scale systems engineering.
Demonstrated success architecting high‑availability, high‑throughput, mission‑critical production systems.
Deep expertise designing and operating hybrid and cloud‑enabled platforms.
Strong experience driving architectural modernization and composability at enterprise scale.
Proven ability to evaluate and balance resiliency, cost, performance, security, and maintainability.
Ability to communicate complex architectural concepts clearly to technical and executive stakeholders.
Proven experience decomposing monolithic architectures into microservices or modular monoliths.
Ability to provide guidance and best practices to design bridge architectures that allow modern cloud modules to communicate securely with remaining on-prem via APIs or Event-Driven buses.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance coverage
Voluntary dental and vision programs
Life and disability insurance
Retirement savings plan
Paid holidays
Paid time off (PTO) or vacation and/or sick time

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Hard Skills & Tools

enterprise architectureplatform architecturelarge-scale systems engineeringhybrid architecturecloud architecturemicroservicesmodular monolithsAPI integrationcontainerizationAI adoption strategy

Soft Skills

communicationleadershipproblem-solvingstrategic thinkingcollaborationrisk assessmenttechnical guidancestakeholder engagementdecision makingadaptability