Principal Solutions Architect

Posted 15 Days Ago
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Hiring Remotely in PA, USA
Remote
Senior level
Information Technology
The Role
Lead end-to-end solution architecture for complex client engagements, providing architectural oversight and acting as a trusted advisor to clients. Ensure compliance with governance frameworks and drive modernization initiatives.
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What success looks like in this role:

Architecture & Solution Leadership
  • Lead the end‑to‑end solution architecture for complex client engagements across hybrid infrastructure, cloud, security, automation, and modern workplace domains, ensuring alignment to Unisys architectural standards and client business outcomes.
  • Own current‑state and future‑state architecture designs, including high‑level and detailed architecture diagrams, solution blueprints, and design artefacts.
  • Provide architectural oversight across design, transition, transformation, and steady‑state operations for managed services and project‑based work.
Client Advisory & Stakeholder Engagement
  • Act as a trusted technical advisor for clients, engaging with senior client stakeholders to shape technology strategy, roadmaps, and transformation journeys.
  • Translate business requirements into scalable, secure, and operable solutions, balancing technical excellence, cost optimisation, and risk.
  • Support RFPs, RFIs, SOWs, scope expansions, and account growth initiatives through solution definition and value articulation.
Governance, Risk & Compliance
  • Ensure solutions comply with Unisys governance frameworks, security standards, and regulatory requirements (e.g., risk assessments, privacy impact assessments, vendor risk reviews).
  • Review and approve architectural decisions through design authorities and solution governance forums.
  • Identify technical risks and drive mitigation strategies through design changes or service improvement plans (SIPs).
Transformation, Optimisation & Innovation
  • Lead or contribute to modernisation initiatives including cloud migration, platform standardisation, automation, SRE, FinOps, AIOps, and resilience improvements.
  • Identify and propose cost optimisation, performance optimisation, and resilience improvements within client environments, even where execution is outside direct control.
  • Create reusable solution assets, reference architectures, and best‑practice documentation to support organisational scale and reuse.

You will be successful in this role if you have:

BA/BS degree and 6-8 years’ relevant experience OR equivalent combination of education and experience.

  • Proven experience delivering large‑scale, complex enterprise solutions in a managed services or systems integration environment.
  • Strong background working with global clients, distributed delivery teams, and multi‑vendor ecosystems.

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This role may require access to export-controlled commodities and technology.  Therefore, to conform to U.S. export control regulations, applicant should be eligible for any required authorizations from the U.S. Government.

Unisys is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that considers all qualified applicants without regard to age, caste, citizenship, color, disability, family medical history, family status, ethnicity, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, national origin, parental status, pregnancy, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, transgender status, veteran status or any other category protected by law.

This commitment includes our efforts to provide for all those who seek to express interest in employment the opportunity to participate without barriers. If you are a US job seeker unable to review the job opportunities herein, or cannot otherwise complete your expression of interest, without additional assistance and would like to discuss a request for reasonable accommodation, please contact our Global Recruiting organization at [email protected] or alternatively Toll Free: 888-560-1782 (Prompt 4).  US job seekers can find more information about Unisys’  EEO commitment here.

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The Company
Albany, NY
22,588 Employees
Year Founded: 1986

What We Do

Unisys is a global information technology company that builds high-performance, security-centric solutions for the most demanding businesses and governments on Earth. Unisys offerings include security software and services; digital transformation and workplace services; industry applications and services; and innovative software operating environments for high-intensity enterprise computing. We build better outcomes securely for our clients across the Government, Financial Services and Commercial

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