Principal Enterprise Architect, Multiple Teams

This is an onsite position, located in Springfield, Missouri. Relocation assistance is provided, if necessary. Enterprise Architecture LeadershipOwn and evolve theenterprise architecture vision, blueprint, and multi‑year roadmap.Lead execution of modern architectural patterns includingdomain‑driven design, microservices, event-driven integration, cloud-native platforms, andAPI-first ecosystems.Head theArchitecture Review Board (ARB); establish decision frameworks and Architecture Decision Records (ADRs).People Leadership & Organizational DevelopmentDirectly lead and manage a team of architects, providing coaching, 1:1s, performance development, and career growth.Build and mature thearchitecture practice, including standards, reusable patterns, reference architectures, templates, and best practices.Foster a strong culture ofcollaboration, continuous learning, technical excellence, and psychological safety across architecture and engineering.Provide thought leadership and partner closely with Engineering Managers, Product, Security, and Infrastructure leadership to drive alignment.Support the recruitment, onboarding, and development of top architecture talent; identify skill gaps and create development plans.Platform Engineering, DevOps & SREDefine the enterprise strategy for DevOps, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, GitOps, and platform engineering (“golden paths” and self‑service developer platforms).Establish and enforceSRE practices—SLO/SLI definitions, error budgets, observability, incident response, resilience engineering, and performance/scalability patterns.Drive adoption ofZero Downtime,Canary,Blue/Green, andprogressive delivery strategies.Cloud, Security & Data ArchitectureLead cloud strategy and architecture: multi-account landing zones, networking, service mesh, identity, secrets, encryption, policy-as-code, DR/HA, and FinOps optimization.Oversee data architecture patterns (streaming pipelines, CDC, lake/lakehouse, governance, lineage, quality, cataloging).Ensure alignment with enterprise security standards and partner with security architecture on threat modeling, secure design, and compliance.Solution & Delivery LeadershipProvide architectural oversight for key programs—review designs, approve patterns, unblock teams, and support high-risk technical initiatives.Serve as a trusted advisor to engineering leadership and senior business stakeholders.Communicate architectural decisions, trade-offs, and impacts clearly to executives and delivery teams.EXPERIENCE/QUALIFICATIONS: Performs duties within scope of general company policies, procedures, and objectives. Qualified individuals with known disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act and certain state or local laws.

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