Principal, Platform Architecture
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency1 day ago
Base Salary
$179k - $289k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and own enterprise platform architecture for Kubernetes, Kafka, Flink, AWS infrastructure, CI/CD, GitOps, and observability capabilities.
- Develop target-state architectures, reference architectures, transition plans, standards, and guardrails for platform modernization.
- Lead migration of workloads to cloud-native AWS patterns across compute, networking, storage, and security services.
- Define GitOps, infrastructure-as-code, pipeline, environment-promotion, configuration-management, and release-automation practices.
- Lead proof-of-concept efforts and evaluate platform technologies and tooling before architectural commitments.
- Identify and reduce platform risks involving availability, capacity, dependencies, single points of failure, and operational gaps.
- Collaborate with application architecture, engineering, security, operations, technical leads, and business stakeholders.
- Establish platform-level standards for logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, capacity planning, and performance engineering.
- Participate in incident reviews and post-mortems and translate findings into durable architecture improvements.
- Ensure platform architecture supports Regulation SCI and CPMI-IOSCO resilience principles.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform, or systems architecture roles with enterprise-scale platform ownership.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, or a similar technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Deep hands-on expertise with Kubernetes cluster architecture, workload design, networking, security, and operations at scale.
- Hands-on experience architecting Apache Kafka deployments, including topic design, partitioning, consumer groups, schema management, and operations.
- Practical experience with Apache Flink or equivalent stream-processing frameworks, including job design, state management, and Kubernetes deployment.
- Strong AWS architecture experience with VPC, EC2, EKS, MSK, S3, IAM, KMS, networking, and security services.
- Experience designing and implementing GitOps pipelines using tools such as Flux, ArgoCD, Terraform, or Helm.
- Experience working with brownfield and legacy environments alongside cloud-native programs.
- Ability to produce architecture diagrams, ADRs, reference architectures, and transition plans.
- Strong communication skills for presenting platform decisions to executives and resolving technical trade-offs with engineering teams.
- Financial-services experience in regulated environments is preferred.
- Familiarity with Regulation SCI, CPMI-IOSCO resilience requirements, or equivalent regulatory frameworks is preferred.
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, or equivalent observability tooling is preferred.
- Familiarity with high-performance and low-latency computing patterns for risk and clearing workloads is preferred.
- Experience with enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF is preferred.
- AWS Solutions Architect Associate or Professional certification is preferred.
- Experience with Unix/Linux environments and container or image management is preferred.
Benefits
- Hybrid work environment with up to 2 days per week of remote work.
- Tuition reimbursement and student loan repayment assistance.
- Technology stipend for remote network access and device choice.
- Generous PTO and parental leave.
- 401(k) employer match.
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
- Potential discretionary incentive compensation is available, separate from base salary.
Tech Stack
Apache FlinkApache KafkaAWSDockerGitHub ActionsGrafanaHelmJenkinsKubernetesLinuxPrometheusSplunkTerraform