Principal Architect

Bounteous is a global AI Services firm where agentic engineering and human experience converge to deliver transformative business outcomes for the enterprise. We help organisations design, build, and scale AI-driven products, platforms, and processes. Job Role: Principal Architect Location: United States (Remote/Hybrid, client-facing travel as needed) Experience: 11+ years minimum, 8+ years in Solution/Technical Architecture Role Summary: The Principal Architect is the senior-most technical authority and executive-facing owner of the overall solution architecture for the account. This is a client-facing, decision-making role accountable for technical credibility with the client's executive and engineering leadership, and for the integrity of the architecture across every workstream. Key Responsibilities: Own the end-to-end solution architecture for the account, ensuring alignment with business goals and enterprise architecture standards. Define and defend the target-state architecture and roadmap directly to client executive stakeholders and governance/Change Board forums. Drive technical design decisions across application architecture, APIs, integrations, cloud infrastructure, and non-functional requirements. Set coding standards, design patterns, and technology choices across workstreams. Review and approve high-level designs (HLDs) before implementation begins. Evaluate and integrate new tools, frameworks, and AI/agentic development capabilities into the delivery model. Direct and prompt AI coding agents for architecture-level proofs of concept, technical spikes, and feasibility validation. Partner with the Tech Product Manager and Delivery Lead to align architecture with delivery timelines and prioritisation. Provide technical leadership and mentoring to the India-based Principal Architect and Solution Architect. Escalate cross-cutting architectural risks and represent the account technically to the client's engineering leadership. Required Qualifications: 11+ years in enterprise technology roles with 8+ years owning solution architecture on client-facing, multi-workstream programs. Proven experience as the client-facing architecture owner, comfortable defending design decisions to VP/C-level stakeholders and formal governance bodies. Deep, current fluency in modern application architecture, API/integration design, cloud infrastructure, and non-functional requirements. Hands-on experience directing or prompting AI coding agents as part of an agent-orchestrated delivery model. Track record of resolving ambiguous, evolving requirements into a defensible, phased architecture. Good To Have: Enterprise architecture certification (e.g., TOGAF) or a cloud/platform architect certification relevant to the eventual stack. Experience in pharmaceutical/healthcare distribution or another regulated industry. Prior experience architecting within an AI-agent-orchestrated or "generative" development delivery model. Information Security Responsibilities: Promote and enforce awareness of key information security practices. Identify, assess, and report security risks. Understand and evaluate how data is stored, processed, or transmitted, ensuring compliance with data privacy and protection standards. Ensure data protection measures are integrated throughout the information lifecycle to safeguard sensitive information. Job Data by YubHub .