Palo Alto Principal Architect Enterprise AI Distinguish 

United States, California 

547467151

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Your Career

,you will be driving the design, implementation, scaling, and evangelism of the end-to-end platform that will be used across IT and Enterprise business functions (Sales, Marketing, Finance, HR, Legal, etc).

Distinguished Enterprise Architect to lead our transformation toward AI-first development practices while optimizing developer productivity and modernizing our enterprise application landscape.

Your Impact

• Vision & Design: Define and evangelize enterprise-wide architectural vision for engineering excellence, developer productivity platforms, and AI-integrated applications.
• Engg Excellence: Establish architectural principles, design patterns, and engineering standards that prioritize quality, reliability, maintainability, and AI-first approaches.Drive technical strategy for internal developer platforms (IDPs), code quality frameworks, development toolchains, reducing tech debt and improving delivery velocity. Design and implement comprehensive code quality frameworks including automated testing, static analysis, and security scanning. Architect self-service capabilities, automated testing frameworks, and deployment pipelines with built-in quality gates.
• Technology & Platforms: Champion platform engineering practices, infrastructure-as-code methodologies, and shift-left quality approaches.Drive selection of AI tools, frameworks, cloud solutions, and hybrid infrastructure that align with business and engineering needs.
• Governance: Establish metrics and observability systems to measure and continuously improve both developer productivity, code quality and improve security posture. Promote adoption of a consistent technology stack reducing complexity. Lead the integration of AI/ML capabilities into enterprise applications and development workflows.
• Cross functional leadership: Collaborate with engineering leadership to align architectural decisions with business objectives and quality standards. Foster a culture of continuous learning, technical excellence, and engineering craftsmanship.
• Innovation Leadership: Actively learn and incorporate advances in AI, GenAI, LLMs, AIOps, and scalable architectures. Bring emerging innovations into production through POCs, hackathons, and controlled experimentation.

Your Experience

• 15+ years in software engineering, distributed systems, or enterprise architecture, including 7+ years leading enterprise and application architecture at scale.
• Proven expertise in designing complex, enterprise-grade platforms (custom applications and SaaS solutions), ideally across multiple domains (e.g., customer support, finance, sales)
• Experience with application modernization, cloud native architecture, API first design principles, integration strategies, event driven architecture, disaster recovery, and application security patterns.
• Deep knowledge of AI innovations and practical understanding of the full AI lifecycle for developer experience, building agents, apps.
• Extensive experience with distributed systems architecture, microservices, multi cloud, hybrid cloud, Integration platforms, data platforms, and data lakes.
• Strong communication skills with a track record of influencing across VP+ and cross-org stakeholders.
• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Must be located in SF Bay area

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $243000 - $335000/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found .

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.