Principal Architect

Presidio, Where Teamwork and Innovation Shape the Future
At Presidio, we're at the forefront of a global technology revolution, transforming industries through cutting-edge digital solutions and next-generation AI. We empower businesses - and their internal customers - to achieve more through innovation, automation, and intelligent insights.

The Role
As a Principal Architect – Digital, you will operate at the intersection of technology, consulting, and business transformation, partnering with senior client stakeholders to shape, design, and deliver large-scale digital solutions.

This is a high-impact, client-facing leadership role where you will not only define architecture but also bring forward innovative ideas, create value-led solutions, and actively contribute to growing and expanding client accounts. You will play a key role in positioning Presidio as a trusted digital transformation partner across global markets, particularly the US.

Job Responsibilities

• Design and lead end-to-end architecture for large-scale digital transformation programs, combining deep technical expertise with a strong builder mindset. Actively shape, prototype, and deliver modern, cloud-native, and AI-driven solutions that create measurable business impact for clients. Operate at the intersection of consulting, engineering, and innovation within Presidio’s Digital Practice, translating complex business challenges into scalable, future-ready platforms.
• Act as a trusted advisor to C-level stakeholders, influencing technology strategy, shaping roadmaps, and driving adoption of AI, data, and emerging technologies. Lead the design of architectures across cloud, data, integration, and application layers, ensuring alignment with enterprise goals around scalability, resilience, security, and cost efficiency, while promoting a product and platform mindset.
• Stay hands-on by building reference implementations, accelerators, and proof-of-concepts across GenAI, intelligent automation, and next-generation digital platforms. Drive adoption of AI/ML and GenAI capabilities, including LLMs and RAG-based architectures, to unlock new business value. Champion modern engineering practices such as DevSecOps, CI/CD, platform engineering, and SRE to enable high-velocity delivery.
•  Collaborate across multidisciplinary teams, including engineers, data scientists, designers, and product leaders, to deliver integrated digital solutions. Play a key role in pre-sales and solutioning by crafting compelling, differentiated proposals. Contribute to thought leadership through reusable frameworks, industry insights, and client engagements, while mentoring teams and elevating the broader architecture and engineering community.

Required Skills

• Deep expertise in enterprise and solution architecture, with a strong foundation in distributed systems, microservices, APIs, and event-driven architectures. Proven experience with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP), including cloud-native design, containers, Kubernetes, and serverless paradigms.
• Strong hands-on experience with AI/ML and GenAI solutions, including LLMs, prompt engineering, and retrieval-augmented generation, along with solid knowledge of modern data platforms and data engineering practices. Demonstrated builder mindset with the ability to write high-quality code (Python, Java, or similar), develop POCs, and solve complex technical challenges.
• Well-developed consulting mindset, with exceptional problem-solving ability, business acumen, and the capability to influence both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Experience in modern engineering practices, including AI accelerated development, infrastructure as code, observability, reliability engineering, and secure-by-design principles.
• Strong architectural judgment, with the ability to evaluate trade-offs across scalability, performance, cost, and time-to-market. Proven leadership in guiding cross-functional teams, mentoring architects and engineers, and driving alignment in complex environments.
•  Excellent communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear, compelling narratives. A passion for continuous learning, innovation, and leveraging AI and emerging technologies to redefine possibilities for clients and Presidio’s Digital Practice.

Your future at Presidio
Joining Presidio means stepping into a culture of trailblazers - thinkers, builders, and collaborators - who push the boundaries of what's possible. With our expertise AI-driven analytics, cloud solutions, cybersecurity, and next-gen infrastructure, we enable businesses to stay ahead in an ever-evolving digital world.

Here, your impact is real. Whether you're harnessing the power of Generative AI, architecting resilient digital ecosystems, or driving data-driven transformation, you'll be part of a team that is shaping the future.

Ready to innovate? Let's redefine what's next-together.

About Presidio
Presidio is committed to hiring the most qualified candidates to join our amazing culture. We aim to attract and hire top talent from all backgrounds, including underrepresented and marginalized communities. We encourage women, people of color, people with disabilities, and veterans to apply for open roles at Presidio. Diversity of skills and thought is a key component to our business success.

At Presidio, speed and quality meet technology and innovation. Presidio is a trusted ally for organizations across industries with a decades-long history of building traditional IT foundations and deep expertise in AI and automation, security, networking, digital transformation, and cloud computing. Presidio fills gaps, removes hurdles, optimizes costs, and reduces risk. Presidio's expert technical team develops custom applications, provides managed services, and enables actionable data insights and builds forward-thinking solutions that drive strategic outcomes for clients globally. For more information visit

Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis.

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