Principal Architect

Putting people first, every day

BDO is a firm built on a foundation of positive relationships with our people and our clients. Each day, our professionals provide exceptional service, helping clients with advice and insight they can trust. In turn, we offer an award-winning environment that fosters a with a high priority on your personal and professional growth.

Your Opportunity

The Principal Architect is a highly technical enterprise and solution architecture lead who sets architecture direction and ensures technology designs align with business strategy, standards, and roadmaps. In this existing vacancy, as an individual contributor, the successful candidate leads complex architecture work, provides technical leadership and mentorship to architects, and gives the Manager, Architecture & Design informed feedback on performance and development.

Job responsibilities:

• Serve as the technical lead for enterprise and solution architecture, setting direction, reviewing deliverables, and ensuring architecture work is rigorous, pragmatic, and aligned with business strategy.
• Develop enterprise architecture principles, reference architectures, roadmaps, patterns, and standards that guide technology investment and delivery.
• Lead the architecture of complex, cross-enterprise initiatives and oversee design reviews to ensure solutions are secure, scalable, resilient, and supportable.
• Guide decisions across application, data, integration, infrastructure, cloud, identity, security, and emerging technology domains, resolving complex trade-offs and architecture exceptions.
• Partner with business, delivery, engineering, operations, vendors, and domain architects to produce cohesive, executable designs and advance modernization, reuse, rationalization, and technical debt reduction.
• Coach and mentor architects and provide the Manager, Architecture & Design with evidence-based feedback to support performance management, development planning, and work allocation.

How do we define success for your role?

• You demonstrate BDO's core values through all aspect of your work: Integrity, Respect and Collaboration
• You understand our client’s industry, challenges, and opportunities; clients describe you as positive, professional, and delivering high-quality work
• You identify, recommend, and are focused on effective service delivery to our clients
• You share in an inclusive and engaging work environment that develops, retains, and attracts talent
• You actively participate in the adoption of digital tools and strategies to drive an innovative workplace
• You grow your expertise through learning and professional development

Qualifications & Requirements:

• Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent education and experience.
• At least 10 years of progressive enterprise technology experience, including substantial hands-on enterprise and solution architecture experience in a large, complex organization.
• Demonstrated success as a senior technical authority leading architects through technical credibility, influence, coaching, mentoring, and design governance.
• Deep expertise in enterprise and solution architecture, with broad knowledge of cloud, applications, integration, identity, infrastructure, security, data, AI, and modern software delivery.
• Proven ability to develop and critically assess complex designs using technologies such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, Microsoft Entra ID, Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft Foundry, integration and messaging platforms, event-driven architecture, and API management.
• Strong systems thinking, technical judgment, communication, and stakeholder influence, with the ability to explain complex decisions to senior leaders and delivery teams.
• Relevant certifications, such as TOGAF, Azure Solutions Architect, AWS Solutions Architect, or ITIL, are considered an asset.