Principal Architect

Atlanta · USD 196,500-294,750 · 16+ years experience · Posted Oct 2, 2026

At a glance

OneTrust is looking for a Principal Architect to set technical direction across OneTrust's product platform as part of Architecture Services, its central architecture team.
Principal Architects are among the most senior individual-contributor technologists in R&D, shaping multi-year architecture strategy and working across product domains.

Lead the multi-year architecture strategy across OneTrust's product domains, working with domain architects to align their technical plans into one platform direction.
Lead resolution of cross-domain architectural challenges and align stakeholders on platform-wide technical direction.
Set direction for the platform's non-functional requirements, including security, privacy, reliability, performance, scalability, and cost.
Take part early in product discovery and roadmap planning to assess feasibility and identify risks before designs are final.
Propose R&D-wide architecture standards, reference architectures, and patterns to the Architecture Guild.
Guide the design documentation process, and apply governance that doesn't block delivery wherever possible.
Turn standards, reference architectures, and decision records into machine-readable context that AI coding agents use to follow patterns.
Build and guide the adoption of automated architectural checks, such as fitness functions, architecture-as-code, and AI-assisted design review.
Develop domain and squad architects through mentoring and design coaching.
Partner with Engineering, Product, and UX leadership on R&D's key technical decisions, and represent architecture in executive forums.

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
16+ years of professional software engineering experience
Demonstrated impact on organization-wide technical strategy across multiple products or domains
Deep expertise in distributed, cloud-native architecture, including microservices, microfrontends, event-driven integration, and API design
Track record defining non-functional requirements and architecture governance at platform scale
Experience designing for security, privacy, and compliance requirements in enterprise SaaS
Hands-on experience using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or similar), and a track record of helping teams adopt AI-native engineering practices

Experience with compliance frameworks such as GDPR, SOC 2, and ISO/IEC 27001 or 27701
Experience applying Team Topologies or similar operating models to architecture functions