Hiring: Principal Architect-Platform Company: Reltio Location: United States Job Posted Time: 2026-09-17 12:09:54 Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, Airflow, Apache, Azure, CI/CD, Cassandra, ClickHouse, Data Lake, Digital Transformation, Druid, EKS, Elasticsearch, Encryption, Event-Driven, Flink, GCP, GDPR, Go, Grafana, Hadoop, Istio, Java, Kafka, Keycloak, Kubeflow, Kubernetes, LLM, LangChain, Linkerd, MLflow, MVP, Microservices, OpenSearch, Prometheus, Python, RAG, Rust, SAP, SBOM, SOA, SaaS, Scala, Service Mesh, Spark About the job Experience: •20+ years in product/platform architecture for large-scale, cloud-native SaaS; recent Principal/Distinguished Architect scope leading end-to-end product decisions and migrations across multi-cloud. Required Skills: •Set the vision: Author and socialize the product/platform architecture strategy; maintain ADRs and tech radars. •Design at scale: Lead designs for multi-tenant isolation, data models, schemas, indexing/OLAP, and event-driven systems. •Evolve the platform: Standardize service meshes, API gateways, policy-as-code, and multi-cloud deployment patterns. •Operational excellence: Embed SRE practices (SLOs, error budgets, incident learning), capacity planning, and chaos testing. •Security & privacy: Lead threat models, data classification, encryption, secrets, key management, and SBOM/SLSA controls. •AI architecture: Define patterns for RAG/agents, prompt & model governance, telemetry, evaluations, and fallbacks. •Mentor & scale: Coach Staff/Principal engineers and architects; chair architecture reviews; build a healthy review culture. •Executive partnering: Communicate options/trade-offs to C-suite; align decisions with business value and customer impact. Qualifications: •Cloud & Kubernetes depth: EKS/AKS/GKE; service mesh (Istio/Linkerd), observability (Prometheus/Grafana), platform control planes, operators/CRDs. Able to define golden paths/paved roads for teams. •Data platform & streaming expertise: Kafka/Flink/Spark; columnar/OLAP (Druid, ClickHouse), NoSQL (Cassandra), search (Elasticsearch/Opensearch); real-time + batch patterns. •Microservices & integration at enterprise scale: API gateways, event-driven design, SOA/EAI (Apache Camel/Mule/WSO2/JBoss Fuse). •AI/ML & Agentic AI in production: ML pipelines (MLflow/Kubeflow/Airflow) and LLM/agent frameworks (OpenAI APIs, LLaMA, LangChain/LangGraph; tool-use, memory, evals). •Security, privacy, and compliance by design: threat modeling, data classification, encryption/keys, and EU GDPR awareness through real product work. •Executive communication & customer leadership: converts complex trade-offs into simple choices; partners with CXO/stakeholders globally; architecture evangelism with customers. •C-suite influence & decision facilitation: runs architecture reviews/SteerCos with crisp options, risk/ROI framing, and written decision records; pre-wires global stakeholders to land decisions quickly. •Customer-back product thinking: meets enterprises regularly, translates requirements into phased designs (MVP → scale), and defends non-negotiables (SLOs, security, privacy). •Cross-geo orchestration: proven delivery across US/EU/India time zones; builds async rituals, documentation standards, and handoff mechanisms that raise velocity and quality. •Culture carrier & coaching: uplevels Staff/Principal engineers, codifies paved roads (CI/CD, testing, observability), and scales architectural patterns via ADRs/radars. Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!