Principal Tech Consultant

Description:

Principal Tech Consultant - Solution Architect

Job Title: Principal Tech Consultant Solution Architect (Hands-on Engineering)
Location: Arlington, VA, New York, NY and St. Louis, MO; Hybrid work model | Local candidates preferred.
Overall Experience: 10+ Years

Role Summary:

• We are seeking an experienced Solution Architect with strong hands-on coding capabilities to design and deliver scalable, secure, resilient, and high-performing enterprise applications. The ideal candidate should combine deep software engineering expertise with strong solution architecture capabilities and remain actively involved in development, prototyping, and technical problem-solving.
• The role requires close collaboration with business stakeholders, product owners, engineering teams, DevOps, security, and enterprise architects to translate business requirements into practical technology solutions while providing hands-on technical leadership throughout the delivery lifecycle.

Day to Day Job Duties

• Define end-to-end solution architecture for complex enterprise applications and platforms.
• Remain actively involved in hands-on coding, development, prototyping, and implementation of critical application components.
• Design scalable Microservices, REST APIs, distributed systems, and cloud-native applications.
• Develop Proof of Concepts (PoCs) to evaluate technologies, frameworks, and architectural approaches.
• Translate business and functional requirements into scalable technical designs and implementation strategies.
• Establish application architecture, coding standards, design patterns, and engineering best practices.
• Conduct architecture reviews, technical design reviews, and code reviews.
• Work closely with engineering teams to resolve complex technical and performance challenges.
• Mentor senior developers and provide hands-on technical guidance to development teams.
• Drive application modernization, refactoring, and cloud transformation initiatives.
• Collaborate with DevOps teams to improve CI/CD, deployment automation, and application reliability.
• Ensure solutions meet requirements for security, scalability, availability, performance, and maintainability.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues and provide architectural and code-level solutions.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend their adoption based on business and technical requirements.

Basic Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, application development, and enterprise solution design.
• 7+ years of strong hands-on coding experience with Java/Spring Boot, .NET, Python, or similar enterprise technologies.
• 5+ years of experience designing and developing Microservices, REST APIs, distributed systems, and enterprise integrations.
• 3+ years of experience designing and developing cloud-native applications on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.

Nice to Have

• Strong expertise in software architecture, object-oriented design, design patterns, and clean coding principles.
• Experience with modern frontend technologies such as React or Angular.
• Strong understanding of Microservices and event-driven architecture.
• Experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ, IBM MQ, or similar messaging technologies.
• Knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps.
• Understanding of application security, IAM, API security, and secure coding practices.
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, Datadog, Prometheus, or Grafana.
• Exposure to Generative AI and AI-assisted software engineering is an advantage.
• Experience leading and mentoring engineering teams while remaining a hands-on technical contributor.
• Strong consulting, architecture, stakeholder management, communication, and problem-solving skills.