Principal Engineer - Platform Architecture & Transformation
About The Position
We are looking for an exceptional Principal Engineer to help lead the architectural transformation of Conexiom's platform. This is not a traditional individual contributor role. You will serve as one of the company's most senior technical leaders, helping define the future architecture of our platform while influencing engineering, product, data, AI, and infrastructure decisions across the organization. You will partner closely with executive leadership, engineering teams, product management, and reliability engineering to evolve our architecture from a collection of successful products into a unified, modern platform. This includes driving API-first design, cloud-native architecture, AI enablement, platform scalability, developer productivity, and operational excellence.
Requirements
- 15+ years of software engineering experience building large-scale SaaS platforms.
- 5+ years operating at Staff, Principal, Distinguished Engineer, or equivalent architecture leadership level.
- Deep expertise in distributed systems, platform architecture, cloud-native development, and software modernization.
- Proven success leading architectural transformations in complex production environments.
- Strong experience with public cloud platforms.
- Expertise in APIs, event-driven architectures, distributed messaging, microservices, and modern integration patterns.
- Experience operating highly available, mission-critical systems at scale.
- Strong understanding of software delivery, DevOps, CI/CD, and cloud operations.
- Exceptional communication and influence skills.
Nice To Haves
- Experience modernizing monolithic applications into modular platform architectures.
- Experience with AI/ML platforms, LLM integrations, agent frameworks, and AI-powered products.
- Experience building platforms that integrate deeply with ERP ecosystems such as SAP, Epicor, Infor, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, or Salesforce.
- Experience with containerization, Kubernetes, platform engineering, and developer experience tooling.
- Experience leading architecture in growth-stage SaaS organizations.
Responsibilities
- Define and champion Conexiom's long-term technical architecture vision.
- Drive modernization initiatives across applications, services, integrations, data, and infrastructure.
- Establish architectural principles, standards, and governance processes.
- Lead architecture reviews and guide critical technology decisions.
- Create reference architectures that enable scale, resiliency, extensibility, and rapid innovation.
- Help evolve Conexiom toward a unified platform architecture.
- Drive modernization initiatives around containerization, service boundaries, shared platform capabilities, developer tooling, and common services.
- Improve consistency across user experiences, integrations, APIs, observability, and operational workflows.
- Mentor senior engineers, staff engineers, architects, and engineering leaders.
- Raise the technical bar across the organization through coaching, reviews, and standards.
- Improve software quality, reliability, security, and performance.
- Promote modern engineering practices including DevSecOps, platform engineering, observability, and automated testing.
- Collaborate directly with customers, partners, and strategic prospects on architecture discussions.
- Support enterprise-scale integrations with ERP, CRM, eCommerce, and partner ecosystems.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and lead proof-of-concepts where appropriate.
- Balance innovation with practical business outcomes.
Benefits
- We hire for skills, experiences, and accomplishments — not where you've been, but what you've done.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
Education Level
No Education Listed
