Principal Architect – Digital Platform
Overview
Catalyst Brands is accelerating its digital transformation and seeks a Principal Architect to lead the strategy, architecture, and evolution of its digital platform ecosystem. This role combines platform architecture, performance strategy and design, DevOps transformation, and AI innovation to build scalable, secure, and intelligent multi-tenant platforms that leverage AI for automation, observability, and optimization. Reporting to the Distinguished Architect, this leader provides architectural direction across Catalyst Brands for digital commerce platform.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and evolve the digital platform architecture aligned with business goals.
- Architect multi-tenant, cloud native, API first, and event driven platforms for scalability and resilience.
- Lead DevOps and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices integrating automation, observability, and security.
- Establish frameworks for AI driven insights, predictive analytics, and operational intelligence.
- Define performance strategy and design principles ensuring scalability, reliability, and efficiency.
- Oversee networking architecture including VPC design, service mesh, routing, and secure connectivity across hybrid environments.
- Collaborate with product, engineering, and security teams to align architecture goals and standards.
- Provide thought leadership on site reliability, optimization, and cost efficiency.
- Mentor technical architects and engineers to foster innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence.
Success Metrics
- Measurable improvements in scalability, reliability, and platform performance.
- Increased automation, observability, and AI enabled operational intelligence.
- Standardized architectural patterns drive consistency, efficiency, and resilience.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field
- Fifteen or more years of experience in software, cloud, or platform architecture leadership roles.
- Expertise in multi-tenant, distributed, microservices based systems on AWS, experience in Azure or GCP valued.
- Strong proficiency in Kubernetes, containers, networking (VPCs, service mesh, load balancing), Infrastructure as Code, and CI/CD.
- Proven experience designing and governing high performance, high traffic digital platforms.
- Experience with AI, machine learning, and automation for intelligent operations and observability.
- Familiarity with cloud networking, security, and cost optimization best practices.
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional certification preferred.
About the Role
This is a high impact leadership opportunity for a visionary architect defining the next generation of Catalyst Brands digital platform. The Principal Architect will play a pivotal role in shaping Catalyst Brands digital future, delivering secure, scalable, multi-tenant, and AI powered systems that enable growth, innovation, and exceptional customer experiences.
