HPX Content Management System - Principal Software Architect

HP • Vancouver, WA

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About The Position

The Principal Software Architect is responsible for the design, ownership, and ongoing development of mission‑critical platforms supporting the HP App and HP Smart content management systems. This role provides architectural leadership across foundational systems, custom‑built tools, and emerging AI capabilities that directly enable campaign execution, revenue generation, and long‑term platform scalability. The position plays a central role in ensuring platform continuity, development velocity, and operational stability by maintaining deep institutional knowledge of core systems and reducing dependency on external vendors.

Requirements

• Proven experience architecting and owning large scale, business critical platforms
• Deep experience with custom built systems, APIs, and platform tooling
• Demonstrated ability to deliver revenue impacting capabilities in production environments
• Strong understanding of AI enabled solutions and their application to translation, automation, and future agent based systems.
• Four-year or Graduate Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or any other related discipline or commensurate work experience or demonstrated competence.
• Typically has 10+ years of work experience, preferably in software designing & development, software architecture, programming languages, or a related field.
• System analysis
• Project management
• C++ (Programming Language)
• Java (Programming Language)
• Python (Programming Language)
• Software design principles
• Strong communication
• Problem solving
• Strategic thinking
• Leadership
• Effective Communication
• Results Orientation
• Learning Agility
• Digital Fluency
• Customer Centricity

Nice To Haves

• Programming Language/s Certification (Java, C++, Python)

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain the contentstack that supports all HP App and HP Smart campaigns, ensuring reliability and on time delivery of customer facing releases.
• Architect, develop, and evolve foundational platforms and infrastructure critical to campaign operations and program delivery.
• Build and maintain revenue driving capabilities within the platform.
• Partner closely with product, engineering, and monetization stakeholders to align platform capabilities with business and revenue objectives.
• Design and deliver custom proprietary tools.
• Provide technical leadership and platform ownership.
• Support future focused initiatives, including defining and enabling AI agent development.
• Leads the building of standards, designs, and automates the deployment of software.
• Assists supervisors with project development, including documentation of features, recording of progress, and creation of the testing plan.
• Assists in scheduling, determining manpower requirements, and estimating costs to project completion in order to meet user requirements.
• Contributes innovative ideas and may lead large cross-functional teams, exercising independent judgment to solve unique and complex problems impacting the business.
• Acts as a functional manager within area of expertise, developing strategy and setting functional policy and direction.
• Provides mentorship and guidance to lower-level employees.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Long term/short term disability insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Life insurance
• Generous time off policies, including; 4-12 weeks fully paid parental leave based on tenure
• 11 paid holidays
• Additional flexible paid vacation and sick leave

What This Job Offers

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