Principal Solutions Archtect

Chicago, IL, 60602

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Type: Contract

Reference ID: 32508959

Date Posted: 06/26/2026



Apply now: Senior Principal Solutions Architect, location is Remote (U.S. - Central or Eastern Time preferred). The start date is ASAP for this 6-month contract position with strong potential for extension.

Job Title: Senior Principal Solutions Architect
Location-Type: Remote (U.S. - Central or Eastern Time Preferred)
Start Date Is: ASAP
Compensation Range: $85-95/ hr W2
Duration: 6-Month Contract (Likely Extension)
Benefits: Eligible for Health, Dental, Vision, 401K
Must be authorized to work in the U.S. This position is not eligible for sponsorship.

Job Description

The Senior Principal Solutions Architect will provide enterprise architecture leadership for a large-scale digital transformation initiative focused on modernizing distributed systems, enabling AI-powered decision making, and designing scalable event-driven architectures. This is a highly strategic, client-facing consulting role responsible for defining technical direction, facilitating architecture decisions, and partnering with executive stakeholders to solve complex business and technology challenges.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

  • Lead enterprise architecture strategy across complex distributed systems.
  • Design scalable event-driven and real-time streaming architectures.
  • Map enterprise application dependencies and system capabilities.
  • Create architecture diagrams, technical roadmaps, decision records, and planning artifacts.
  • Facilitate architecture workshops and technical design sessions with engineering teams and executive stakeholders.
  • Drive modernization initiatives for legacy applications and services.
  • Evaluate technical tradeoffs, scalability, concurrency, resiliency, and fault-tolerant system design.
  • Partner with engineering, product, and business teams to align architecture with business objectives.
  • Contribute to AI-enabled enterprise architecture initiatives, including enterprise context graphs and MCP server strategy.
  • Guide technical direction while mentoring engineering teams and influencing architecture best practices.
  • Collaborate across multiple business units to improve data flow, pricing systems, and enterprise integration strategies.

Minimum Requirements

  • 10 years of Enterprise or Solutions Architecture experience.
  • Experience architecting large-scale distributed systems.
  • Strong background designing event-driven and real-time streaming applications.
  • Deep understanding of enterprise architecture, dependency mapping, and system integration.
  • Experience designing highly available, low-latency, fault-tolerant architectures.
  • Strong knowledge of:
    • Java
    • Kafka
    • Kubernetes
    • Spring Boot
    • AWS
    • Cassandra
    • TypeScript
    • GraphQL
    • REST APIs
    • Databricks
    • Protocol Buffers (Protobuf)
  • Experience leading architecture strategy rather than hands-on software development.
  • Exceptional executive communication and stakeholder management skills.
  • Experience facilitating architecture decision-making across multiple engineering teams.
  • Strong understanding of Domain-Driven Design (DDD).
  • Experience documenting architecture decisions, tradeoff analysis, and technical roadmaps.
  • Experience working with AI-assisted development tools and modern engineering practices.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with MCP (Model Context Protocol).
  • Experience leveraging Claude or similar AI platforms.
  • Experience designing enterprise context graphs.
  • Dynamic pricing, pricing optimization, or revenue optimization experience.
  • Experience within ticketing, eCommerce, fintech, or other high-volume transactional platforms.
  • Consulting or technology advisory background.
  • Experience mentoring senior engineers and architects.
  • Familiarity with SPADE or Architecture Decision Records (ADRs).

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