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TASC

Principal Software Architect

TASC

. Shape and evolve architectural direction across multiple teams and systems through consensus-driven decision making .

Posted 4/21/2026full-timePurchase • Montana, New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $170,000 - $323,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
CloudDistributed Systems

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Shape and evolve architectural direction across multiple teams and systems through consensus-driven decision making
  • Identify cross-cutting architectural concerns and guide teams toward shared patterns, principles, and solutions
  • Evaluate trade-offs between short-term delivery and long-term system health, articulating risks and options clearly
  • Help the organization converge on architectures that are scalable, resilient, secure, and operationally sound
  • Act as a trusted technical partner to engineers, engineering managers, product leaders, and senior leadership
  • Facilitate architectural discussions that bring together diverse viewpoints and constraints
  • Translate complex technical concepts into clear, actionable guidance for both technical and non-technical audiences
  • Build strong working relationships across teams to enable alignment without formal authority
  • Contribute directly to the most complex and high-impact technical problems (approximately 10–20% hands-on)
  • Lead design spikes, proof-of-concept efforts, and deep technical investigations where clarity is needed
  • Participate in design and code reviews for critical initiatives to ensure architectural intent is preserved
  • Support teams during difficult implementation or scaling challenges
  • Mentor senior engineers and emerging technical leaders across the organization
  • Raise the quality of engineering through example, coaching, and thoughtful feedback
  • Promote strong engineering practices in system design, testing, documentation, and operational readiness
  • Contribute to a culture of technical rigor, collaboration, and continuous improvement

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 10+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • Proven experience operating at a principal or senior architecture level across multiple teams
  • Strong track record designing and evolving complex, distributed systems
  • Deep understanding of modern software architecture patterns (e.g., service-oriented, event-driven, API-centric systems)
  • Experience with cloud-native architectures and production concerns such as reliability, scalability, observability, and security
  • Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction through collaboration and consensus rather than authority
  • Excellent communication skills, including comfort engaging with senior leadership.

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance)
  • flexible spending account and health savings account
  • paid leaves (including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave)
  • 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time
  • 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire
  • 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays
  • 401k with a best-in-class company match
  • deferred compensation for eligible roles
  • fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities
  • eligibility for tuition reimbursement

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Hard Skills & Tools
software engineeringsoftware architecturedistributed systemscloud-native architecturesservice-oriented architectureevent-driven architectureAPI-centric systemsdesign patternsscalabilitysecurity
Soft Skills
communicationcollaborationmentoringinfluencedecision makingproblem solvingcoachingrelationship buildingtechnical guidancecontinuous improvement