Principal Solution Architect

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $97.4k - $154.9k / year

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The Nature Conservancy

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5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 1951

🤲 Charity

🤝 Non-profit

Charity • Non-profit • Environmental

The Nature Conservancy is a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the lands and waters on which all life depends. Operating in over 80 countries and territories, it addresses critical issues like climate change and biodiversity loss through strategic conservation efforts. The organization focuses on protecting vital ecosystems such as forests, oceans, and freshwater resources, while actively engaging communities and influencing environmental policies. Through various initiatives, The Nature Conservancy aims to ensure a sustainable and thriving planet for future generations.

📋 Description

• Provide architectural guidance to feature teams to accelerate speed to market while reducing long-term maintenance costs and ensuring alignment with non-functional and enterprise requirements. • Lead trade-off analysis and decision-making for complex, high-impact architectural choices, resolving technical conflicts across teams. • Collaborate to develop and promote reusable patterns, best practices, and reference implementations through proof-of-concepts (POCs), research, and experimentation. • Establish “paved roads” by defining pre-approved reference architectures that streamline development and enable self-service capabilities. • Partner across multiple business units and collaborate closely with other architects and technology leaders. • Act as a thought leader and strategic advisor to delivery and product teams. • Advocate for and evolve the Architecture Review Board (ARB), shifting from a governance-only model to an enablement-focused approach. • Present architecture strategies, designs, and recommendations to technical and business leadership across TNC. • Define, implement, and continuously improve architecture processes and governance models. • Engage with internal and external technology partners to enhance TNC’s capabilities and drive adoption of new solutions. • Contribute to the development of cloud, data, and enterprise technology standards to ensure interoperability and alignment with best practices. • May serve as a lead member of a Center of Excellence (CoE), mentoring team members and advancing organizational knowledge in key technology areas. • Maintain expertise in current and emerging technologies through training, research, and professional development. • Stay current on industry trends, with a particular focus on cloud, data, AI/ML, and generative AI advancements.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience. • 8 years of experience in Information Technology field with 6 years of recent relevant experience in a cloud environment (AWS / Azure) • Demonstrated expertise in cloud architecture, including: • Designing and deploying highly available, scalable, and secure solutions on AWS and/or Azure • Developing cloud-native solutions using APIs and services across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS models • Effectively communicating cloud concepts and architectures to technical and non-technical stakeholders • Strong understanding of modern architecture challenges and patterns, including: • Migration to cloud-native, microservices-based, event-driven, and decoupled architectures • Driving enterprise data and analytics modernization strategies (e.g., leveraging platforms such as Databricks) • Enabling adoption of cloud and AI workloads across the organization • Deep understanding of the Well-Architected Framework, including security and compliance considerations • DevSecOps practices, including CI/CD pipeline design and implementation • Experience driving the adoption of generative AI and machine learning capabilities across enterprise systems, leveraging AWS or other leading AI platforms (e.g., Azure AI, Google Cloud, OpenAI) • Experience architecting and implementing AI-enabled enterprise solutions, including LLM-based applications, data pipelines, and modern cloud-native architectures for scalable production deployment • Demonstrated ability to lead and mentor technical teams in architecture and solution development • Working knowledge across enterprise domains, including application, data, infrastructure, and security architectures • Proven ability to build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships • Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to tailor messaging to different audiences.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health care benefits • Flexible spending accounts • 401(k) plan with an 8% employer match • Parental leave • Accrued paid time off • Life insurance • Disability coverage • Employee assistance program • Other life and work well-being benefits