Hiring: Principal Enterprise Architect Company: Celigo Location: United States Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 12:39:17 Employment Type: Contract / Remote Target Skills & Keywords : Accessibility, Embedded Systems, Enterprise Architecture, SaaS About the job Experience: •10+ years in enterprise or solution architecture, with demonstrated ownership of an application portfolio and architecture standards at a software or high-growth company. •Demonstrated success in application rationalization and SaaS cost reduction. You have personally driven consolidation and renegotiation that produced real, measurable savings. •Deep fluency with enterprise architecture frameworks and lifecycle governance, including TOGAF-style practice, adopt/hold/retire classification, and architecture review board processes. •Strong build-vs-buy and total-cost-of-ownership judgment, with experience partnering with Procurement, Finance, and Security on vendor decisions. •Solid functional working knowledge of AI and agentic governance concepts, including least-privilege and least-agency architecture, control points, and data access patterns. Required Skills: •This is a founding role: you will build Celigo’s enterprise architecture practice from scratch, turning a highly federated, ungoverned technology portfolio into a rationalized, outcome-aligned estate. •Govern through influence rather than authority, use AI to analyze the portfolio at scale, and work through GTO’s domain leads to turn findings into real action. •Set the scope, prioritize what to govern first, publish a standards catalog and decision log, and create the shared language GTO works from. •Know the practice is working when business teams come to you before they commit to a new vendor. Compensation: •$200,000 per year •Flexible work environment (work from home / hybrid options) 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!