Principal Technical Architect – Composable, AI Platforms

Responsibilities

• Partner with the Chief Technical Architect to define and evolve Conduent’s multi‐year architectural vision across platforms, products, and client solutions.
• Continuously evaluate emerging technologies and architectural paradigms to ensure Conduent adopts capabilities that improve speed, resilience, maintainability, and cost efficiency.
• Drive architectural decisions that emphasize composable, modular, and reusable platform components, enabling rapid solution assembly and adaptation across clients.
• Balance near‐term delivery needs with long‐term sustainability, ensuring architectures avoid vendor lock‐in and excessive technical debt.
• Serve as a principal architect for the design of hybrid (on‐prem + cloud) and multi‐region production architectures supporting large‐scale transaction processing.
• Define and refine reference architectures, patterns, and standards used across Commercial solutions.
• Ensure architectures are engineered for resiliency, scalability, observability, and operational simplicity.
• Act as an escalation point for complex architectural trade studies, risk assessments, and production impact decisions.
• Lead research and technical design for application and platform modernization, including containerization, workload decomposition, and cloud‐native transformation.
• Promote architectures that enable composable services, API‐driven integration, and platform reuse, reducing time‐to‐market for new client solutions.
• Drive enterprise‐level AI adoption strategy, including GenAI, ML‐driven automation, intelligent document processing, decision engines, and agent‐based workflows.
• Ensure AI‐enabled architectures are secure, governed, auditable, and production‐ready, aligning innovation with enterprise guardrails.

Requirements

• 15+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, platform architecture, or large‐scale systems engineering.
• Demonstrated success architecting high‐availability, high‐throughput, mission‐critical production systems.
• Deep expertise designing and operating hybrid and cloud‐enabled platforms.
• Strong experience driving architectural modernization and composability at enterprise scale.
• Proven ability to evaluate and balance resiliency, cost, performance, security, and maintainability.
• Ability to communicate complex architectural concepts clearly to technical and executive stakeholders.
• Proven experience decomposing monolithic architectures into microservices or modular monoliths.
• Ability to provide guidance and best practices to design bridge architectures that allow modern cloud modules to communicate securely with remaining on‐prem via APIs or Event-Driven buses.