Expert Architect

Carnival Corporation•Fort Lauderdale, FL

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

One of the best-known names in cruising, Princess is the world’s leading international premium cruise line and tour company, carrying millions of guests each year to hundreds of destinations around the globe. We give our guests the Medallion Class experience others simply can’t. The Love Boat promises something for everyone. The Principal Enterprise Architect, Advanced Performance Monitoring and Middleware serves as the organization’s highest-level professional authority and global thought leader for application performance monitoring, enterprise observability, middleware, integration platforms, and operational telemetry. The role defines and materially shapes the long-term global technology strategy, enterprise architecture, governance model, and innovation agenda for these disciplines across a complex, multinational operating environment. This position applies broad and comprehensive expertise in leading-edge theories, technologies, and architectural practices to identify and solve the organization’s most complex and consequential technology challenges. The role establishes mandatory enterprise standards and target-state architectures that govern the design, reliability, scalability, security, resilience, and performance of mission-critical services supporting guest-facing, shipboard, shoreside, and corporate operations. The Principal Enterprise Architect leads the organization’s largest and most strategically significant multidisciplinary architecture and transformation initiatives, with impact across brands, business units, geographies, technology platforms, and external strategic partners. The role proactively identifies emerging technologies and creates innovative architecture models, engineering practices, and industry-leading solutions that influence the future direction of the organization and advance the broader observability and middleware profession. Operating with substantial autonomy, the role advises senior executives on technology strategy, enterprise risk, platform investments, and long-term capability development. The position represents the organization externally with technology providers, professional communities, industry forums, and strategic partners and is recognized as a leading authority in the field.

Requirements

Demonstrated success defining enterprise technology strategy and leading large, multidisciplinary transformations with impact across business units, geographic regions, and technology domains.
Demonstrated record of creating innovative architecture solutions, frameworks, or engineering practices for complex problems where established precedent was unavailable or insufficient.
Recognized thought leadership within the observability, middleware, integration, performance engineering, or enterprise architecture profession.
Experience advising senior executives and influencing material technology investments, enterprise policies, platform strategies, and risk decisions.
Experience representing an organization with strategic vendors, professional bodies, industry forums, or external technology communities.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field.
12+ years of experience in enterprise infrastructure, application architecture, middleware engineering, or performance monitoring.
15+ years of experience in enterprise architecture or senior technical leadership roles.
Deep expertise in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and observability platforms.
Extensive experience designing and supporting enterprise middleware environments.
Strong understanding of distributed systems, networking, cloud architecture, and system performance optimization.
Experience with enterprise-scale monitoring, logging, alerting, and telemetry platforms.
Proven ability to lead large-scale technology transformation initiatives.
Understanding of workplace policies and procedures.
Familiarity with team collaboration tools and techniques.
Strong time management and organizational skills.
Ability to maintain reliable and consistent attendance.
Capacity to be punctual and meet deadlines.
Ability to collaborate effectively with colleagues and work as part of a team.
Demonstrated professionalism in all interactions and tasks.
Handles complex, high-stakes guest issues requiring rapid, independent decision-making and creative solutions.
Balances company interests with guest satisfaction, often under time-sensitive and high-pressure conditions.

Nice To Haves

Relevant advanced certifications in enterprise architecture, cloud architecture, Kubernetes, observability, middleware, or performance engineering.
Published thought leadership, professional presentations, standards contributions, patents, recognized innovations, or leadership in relevant industry communities.
Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related discipline.

Responsibilities

Define, own, and materially shape the long-term global strategy, target-state architecture, and innovation roadmap for enterprise observability, application performance monitoring, middleware, integration, and telemetry capabilities.
Serve as the organization’s highest technical authority for these disciplines, establishing mandatory architecture principles, enterprise standards, reference architectures, governance requirements, and investment priorities.
Translate enterprise business strategy, operational priorities, and emerging industry developments into multiyear technology strategies that shape the future direction of mission-critical platforms and services.
Determine the objectives and architectural direction for the organization’s most complex technology assignments and independently design innovative solutions where established methods or industry precedent do not exist.
Advise senior executives on significant technology investments, strategic risks, emerging capabilities, and decisions affecting the long-term reliability, resilience, scalability, and competitiveness of the business.
Represent the organization as an external thought leader through strategic technology partnerships, professional forums, industry working groups, and relationships with leading technology providers.
Create and promote innovative architecture practices and technology capabilities that establish new standards for the organization and contribute to the advancement of the observability, middleware, and enterprise architecture professions.
Set the global architectural direction for enterprise APM, digital experience monitoring, infrastructure monitoring, network observability, log management, distributed tracing, analytics, and operational intelligence.
Lead the design and evolution of a unified, enterprise-wide observability ecosystem spanning hybrid cloud, multicloud, on-premises, shipboard, shoreside, containerized, and distributed application environments.
Establish enterprise policies and standards for telemetry architecture, service-level indicators, service-level objectives, performance engineering, data retention, event correlation, predictive analytics, and automated remediation.
Direct the architectural response to the organization’s most complex and consequential reliability and performance challenges, including issues that cross multiple technology disciplines, business units, platforms, and geographic environments.
Pioneer the application of artificial intelligence, machine learning, automation, and predictive analytics to identify emerging risks, prevent service disruption, accelerate root cause identification, and improve global operational resilience.
Ensure observability capabilities are embedded as foundational architectural requirements within cloud engineering, platform engineering, Infrastructure-as-Code, DevSecOps, and CI/CD practices.
Define the global target-state architecture and strategic roadmap for middleware, messaging, event streaming, API management, enterprise integration, and service-mesh technologies supporting the organization’s most critical business services.
Establish mandatory enterprise architecture patterns for highly available, scalable, secure, and resilient integration services across business-critical and customer-facing environments.
Lead major modernization initiatives that transform legacy middleware and integration environments into cloud-native, API-led, and event-driven technology ecosystems.
Determine the architectural approach for complex cross-platform integration challenges where solutions require the creation of new methods, models, or technical standards.
Govern platform lifecycle, technology selection, vendor strategy, architectural exceptions, and long-range investment decisions for enterprise middleware and integration capabilities.
Influence strategic product roadmaps with technology vendors and partners to ensure future capabilities address the organization’s global operational and architectural requirements.
Establish and lead the global innovation agenda for observability, performance engineering, middleware, integration, and operational intelligence.
Identify emerging technologies, theories, and engineering practices with the potential to fundamentally improve business resilience, guest experience, operational performance, and technology economics.
Develop original architecture models, frameworks, and engineering approaches that address challenges for which external leading practices or established precedents are insufficient.
Serve as a recognized external thought leader and organizational spokesperson in the discipline, sharing architecture perspectives and innovative practices with industry forums, professional bodies, technology partners, and peer organizations.
Build strategic relationships with leading technology companies, research organizations, and professional networks to influence product direction, promote innovation, and advance industry practices.
Maintain the organization’s position at the forefront of global observability, middleware, and enterprise architecture capabilities.
Lead the organization’s largest and most strategically significant multidisciplinary architecture programs and initiatives, with material impact across brands, business units, countries, technology domains, and operational environments.
Provide authoritative technical direction to senior architects, engineering leaders, cybersecurity specialists, application teams, cloud teams, infrastructure teams, vendors, and external strategic partners.
Mobilize and align multidisciplinary stakeholders around complex architecture decisions where priorities, technical perspectives, business requirements, and risk tolerances may conflict.
Exercise enterprise-level decision authority through architecture governance forums, including approval or rejection of material architecture designs, technology selections, standards exceptions, and platform strategies.
Establish formal professional networks and communities of practice that advance technical capability, architecture maturity, innovation, and succession depth across the organization.
Mentor senior technical leaders and recognized experts while defining expectations for professional excellence within the discipline.
Shape multiyear technology investment strategies and portfolio priorities for enterprise observability, middleware, integration, telemetry, and associated platform capabilities.
Evaluate and communicate the global business implications of complex architecture decisions, including impacts on guest experience, business continuity, operational resilience, cybersecurity, regulatory compliance, technology cost, and strategic agility.
Proactively identify systemic risks and future technology constraints that could materially affect the management, direction, or long-term performance of the business.
Provide independent recommendations to senior executives regarding major investments, technology adoption, enterprise risk acceptance, vendor strategy, and platform modernization.
Define measurable enterprise outcomes for reliability, resilience, performance, automation, and operational maturity and hold multidisciplinary initiatives accountable for achieving those outcomes.
Negotiate critical technical and commercial matters with strategic technology providers and materially influence enterprise policies, technology standards, and investment decisions.