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.