OneTrust

Principal Architect

OneTrust
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Atlanta, GA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$197k - $295k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead multi-year architecture strategy across OneTrust product domains and align domain architecture plans.
  • Resolve cross-domain architectural challenges and establish platform-wide technical direction.
  • Define non-functional requirements covering security, privacy, reliability, performance, scalability, and cost.
  • Assess technical feasibility and risks during product discovery and roadmap planning.
  • Propose architecture standards, reference architectures, design patterns, and governance practices.
  • Build AI-native architecture enablement through machine-readable context, automated architectural checks, architecture-as-code, AI-assisted design review, and evaluation feedback loops.
  • Develop architects through mentoring and design coaching, and lead the Architecture Guild through forums, design clinics, and retrospectives.
  • Define architecture scorecards and collaborate with Developer Experience on scorecards, templates, and catalog ownership.
  • Partner with Engineering, Product, UX, and executive leadership on technical decisions, investment trade-offs, and delivery risks.
  • Remain hands-on through prototypes, reference implementations, design work, and architecture automation.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
  • 16+ years of professional software engineering experience.
  • Demonstrated organization-wide technical strategy impact across multiple products or domains.
  • Deep expertise in distributed, cloud-native architecture, including microservices, microfrontends, event-driven integration, and API design.
  • Experience defining non-functional requirements and architecture governance at platform scale.
  • Experience designing for security, privacy, and compliance requirements in enterprise SaaS.
  • Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or similar.
  • Track record helping teams adopt AI-native engineering practices.
  • Preferred experience with GDPR, SOC 2, ISO/IEC 27001, or ISO/IEC 27701.
  • Preferred experience applying Team Topologies or similar operating models to architecture functions.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive healthcare coverage, flexible paid time off, equity RSUs, annual performance bonus opportunities, retirement account support, 14+ weeks of paid parental leave, career development opportunities, and company-paid privacy certification exam fees.
  • Office-first work culture encouraging three days per week in the office for most roles, with role-specific flexibility confirmed with the recruiter.
  • Additional benefits vary by country.

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About OneTrust

1,001-5,000 employees

OneTrust builds an enterprise data governance and compliance platform used to manage privacy, consent, and AI governance across global operations. Its products span privacy impact assessment and data‑mapping automation, cookie and consent management, vendor risk, subject access requests, incident management, and policy enforcement, sold as subscription software. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Atlanta, the privately held company serves thousands of organizations worldwide across regulated industries.

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