Principal Architect

SBP Careers•Duluth, GA

2d•Remote

About The Position

Specialty Building Products is currently looking for a Principal Architect to join our VALUES based organization to define and evolve the enterprise technology architecture supporting SBP’s cloud-native and digital initiatives. This role establishes the long-term architectural vision, reference models, and technology roadmaps that guide application, platform, integration, and data engineering efforts. The Principal Architect ensures alignment between business strategy and technical direction while partnering closely with engineering leadership to translate architecture into executable plans. This is a strategic technical leadership role focused on architectural direction and cross-domain coherence rather than day-to-day implementation governance.

Requirements

10+ years in software architecture and engineering, including 5+ years designing enterprise-scale systems on Microsoft Azure.
Demonstrated experience defining enterprise architecture standards adopted across multiple teams.
Proven success aligning architecture with business strategy.
Experience guiding modernization of legacy systems into cloud-native architectures.
Strong background in distributed systems, integration patterns, and enterprise data flows.
Experience influencing technical direction in collaborative environments.
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, or related field.
Azure cloud architecture patterns
Microservices and API-first architectures
Event-driven systems (Event Hubs, Service Bus, Kafka concepts)
Identity and access management (Azure AD / Entra ID, OAuth/OIDC)
Containerization and AKS concepts (design-level guidance)
Enterprise integration patterns
Data platform awareness (Synapse, Databricks, ADLS concepts)

Nice To Haves

AZ-305 (Azure Solutions Architect Expert)
TOGAF or similar architectural framework experience
Experience supporting digital commerce or revenue-impacting systems
Familiarity with AI-enabled systems and emerging platform capabilities

Responsibilities

Define and publish target architecture across microservices, integration, data, and cloud domains.
Maintain architectural decision records (ADRs) and reference models to guide engineering teams.
Establish architectural principles governing modularity, interoperability, security, scalability, and maintainability.
Develop and refine multi-year technology roadmaps aligned to business strategy and operational priorities.
Provide architectural guidance across application, data, integration, and cloud domains.
Facilitate architecture forums and design reviews for major initiatives.
Evaluate and recommend technology selections in partnership with engineering and platform leadership.
Ensure new solutions align with enterprise integration patterns, data governance standards, and security requirements.
Guide modernization and migration initiatives.
Define high-level patterns for cloud-native architectures on Microsoft Azure.
Establish principles for event-driven systems, API-first development, identity, and distributed data management.
Guide resiliency, availability, and scalability expectations for enterprise systems.
Define reference models for containerization, integration messaging, and service boundaries.
Partner with business and IT leadership to translate strategic objectives into architectural direction.
Collaborate with Security, Networking, Data, and Engineering leaders to ensure cohesive enterprise solutions.
Provide architectural risk assessments during major initiative planning.
Mentor senior engineers and architects.
Foster architectural literacy across the organization.
Promote long-term thinking, technical debt reduction, and architectural consistency.
Engage in critical incident discussions when architectural decisions are implicated.