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Principal Software Architect

HackerTrailSingapore, Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Japan, New Zealand
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About the role

Principal Software Architect


What You Will Do
  • Define architecture and technical strategy across multiple engagements, platforms, and teams.
  • Lead the design of complex, large-scale, secure production systems for regulated enterprise clients.
  • Set engineering standards, reference architectures, and best practices adopted firm-wide.
  • Provide deep technical leadership on the most challenging delivery and reliability problems.
  • Partner with delivery leadership, architects, and senior client stakeholders on technical direction and proposals.
  • Drive build-vs-buy, technology selection, and platform investment decisions.
  • Mentor senior and staff engineers, and grow the technical bench across teams.
  • Contribute reusable platforms, accelerators, and frameworks that scale delivery.
  • Champion responsible, effective use of AI tools across engineering.

What you’ll bring

What We Are Looking For

You should have the following skills and experience:
  • 10 to 15 years of experience delivering and architecting production software at scale.
  • Recognized depth in system design, distributed systems, and cloud-native architecture.
  • Extensive AWS expertise, including security, networking, and enterprise deployment patterns.
  • Track record setting technical direction across multiple teams or a business line.
  • Experience in regulated industries (financial services, telco, insurance) is strongly valued.
  • Strong influence, communication, and stakeholder leadership skills.
  • Continued hands-on engineering credibility.

Benefits and perks

Skills

Required

ArchitectureAWSStakeholder managementDistributed SystemsCloud-Native ArchitectureMentoringSecurityNetworkingSystem Design

Nice to have

AIWorkflow AutomationAWS Certified Solutions Architect ProfessionalPlatform engineeringFinancial servicesTelecommunicationsInsuranceRegulatory complianceDelivery Management

Your contact

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