PRINCIPAL ARCHITECT ENGINEER

Dollar General • Goodlettsville, TN

1d • $150,000 - $160,000

About The Position

This position provides senior technical leadership for architecture and engineering standards supporting agentic systems. The role defines scalable and secure technical patterns, guides major solution designs, and raises engineering quality across the agent portfolio.

The Principal Architect Engineer establishes target architectures, reference patterns, and technical standards; leads complex design decisions; reviews significant designs and implementations; and works across security, data, platform, and engineering teams to create resilient, secure, observable, and supportable agent solutions. The role also mentors engineers and technical leaders, shares knowledge across teams, and evaluates emerging technologies and patterns for practical improvements to the agent portfolio.

Requirements

• Expert-level software architecture and engineering knowledge, with strong experience designing distributed or cloud-based systems.
• Strong understanding of AI/agent architectures, APIs, integrations, data flows, and production engineering practices.
• Deep knowledge of security, reliability, scalability, observability, and performance engineering.
• Exceptional technical judgment and ability to explain complex tradeoffs to technical and executive audiences.
• Strong mentoring, influence, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Ability to establish standards while balancing speed, innovation, and maintainability.
• Strong written communication and technical documentation skills.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information technology, or a related field, and 10+ years of progressive software engineering or architecture experience, including significant experience as a principal engineer, architect, or equivalent technical leader. An equivalent combination of education and/or experience may be considered.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with AI/agent systems is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Define target architectures, reference patterns, and technical standards for agentic systems and supporting services.
• Provide technical leadership for complex solution designs, evaluating tradeoffs across scalability, reliability, security, performance, cost, and maintainability.
• Review and approve significant technical designs and implementations, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture and engineering standards.
• Partner with security, data, platform, and engineering teams to establish resilient, secure, observable, and supportable agent solutions.
• Mentor engineers and technical leaders, promote engineering best practices, and facilitate knowledge sharing across teams.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and patterns and recommend practical innovations that improve the agent portfolio.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal