Principal Technical Architect

Job summary

Design end-to-end architectures and practical technical roadmaps for scalable, secure digital, data, and AI-enabled products. Guide engineering teams and senior stakeholders through implementation decisions, risks, modernization, and strong engineering and governance practices.

Job details

Technical Architect / Principal Technical Architect Location: US Remote / New York, or Europe Contract: 6–12 months Working pattern: US-aligned hours NewPage Solutions is supporting a major global organisation as it expands its AI, data and digital-product capability. We are looking for experienced Technical Architects and Principal Technical Architects to shape modern, scalable technology solutions across high-impact programmes. This is a hands-on, consultative architecture role for someone who enjoys turning complex business challenges into clear technical direction. You will work with product, engineering, data and business stakeholders to define practical solutions, guide delivery teams and ensure platforms are secure, reusable and built to scale. What you’ll be doing Designing end-to-end architectures for modern digital, data and AI-enabled products. Turning business and product requirements into clear, pragmatic technical roadmaps. Defining scalable, secure and reusable patterns across cloud, applications, integrations and data. Partnering with engineers and delivery teams to guide technical decisions through to implementation. Working closely with senior stakeholders, explaining complex ideas in a clear and commercially minded way. Identifying technical risks, dependencies and trade-offs early, helping teams make informed decisions. Supporting modernisation initiatives, including legacy-platform transformation and cloud adoption. Promoting strong engineering, security, governance and documentation practices. What we’re looking for Significant experience as a Technical Architect, Solution Architect, Enterprise Architect or Principal Engineer. Strong background designing and delivering complex, cloud-based software platforms. Experience across modern engineering environments such as AWS, Azure or GCP, APIs, distributed systems, integration architecture and data platforms. Knowledge of AI, data, automation or digital-product architecture would be highly beneficial. Comfortable operating between senior business stakeholders and hands-on engineering teams. Excellent communication skills, with the ability to make complex technology decisions easy to understand. Experience in healthcare, life sciences, financial services or another regulated environment is helpful, but not essential. Able to work US-aligned hours. This is an opportunity to play a visible role in shaping technology strategy and delivery for large-scale, business-critical digital initiatives. If you are interested, please apply with your CV or get in touch for a confidential conversation.

What you’ll do

Design end-to-end architectures and practical technical roadmaps for scalable, secure digital, data, and AI-enabled products. Guide engineering teams and senior stakeholders through implementation decisions, risks, modernization, and strong engineering and governance practices.

Requirements

Significant experience in technical, solution, or enterprise architecture, or as a principal engineer, with a strong record designing complex cloud-based platforms. Requires expertise across cloud environments, APIs, distributed systems, integrations, and data platforms, plus clear communication and the ability to work US-aligned hours; regulated-industry experience is helpful but not essential.

Listed skills

• Amazon Web Services · Preferred
• Microsoft Azure · Preferred
• Google Cloud · Preferred

Other relevant skills

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• Technical Architecture
• Solution Architecture
• Cloud Architecture
• AWS
• Azure
• GCP
• API Architecture
• Distributed Systems
• Integration Architecture
• Data Platforms
• AI Architecture
• Digital Product Architecture
• Technical Roadmapping
• Legacy Modernization
• Cloud Adoption
• Security Governance

Job areas

• Technology
• Software
• Engineering
• Management & Leadership
• Consulting

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