Principal Software Architect

Overview

As a Principal Software Architect, you will define the technical vision for SPX’s evolving software ecosystem and align hardware, firmware, cloud, and applications toward a coherent, scalable architecture. You’ll lead architectural direction, governance, and strategy while validating ideas through prototyping. You’ll partner with domain leads and program managers to translate architecture into practical outcomes, balancing long-term direction with delivery realities. This role offers strategic impact across firmware, cloud, and applications in a global, innovation-driven environment.

Pay / Benefits

• Competitive and performance-based compensation and bonus plans
• Educational assistance and leadership development programs
• Commitment to diversity and inclusion in the workplace

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve end-to-end architecture across firmware, cloud, and client apps
• Establish and enforce system design principles, boundaries, and integration patterns
• Define and maintain a coherent technology strategy and aligned tech stack
• Drive architectural governance, standards, and decision processes
• Assess current software landscape and propose transformation roadmaps
• Provide cross-domain alignment and enable delivery through clarity
• Prototype and validate architectural ideas using lightweight PoCs and AI-assisted tooling
• Communicate architectural concepts effectively to executives, engineering leadership, and engineers

Key requirements

• 15+ years of software engineering experience with significant architectural roles
• Proven design of distributed systems across cloud and application layers
• Strong experience with at least one major cloud platform (Azure, AWS, or GCP)
• Experience integrating hardware or embedded systems with cloud-based platforms
• Strong understanding of modern software architecture patterns and best practices
• Ability to influence technical direction across multiple teams
• Excellent communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences

• Cross-functional collaboration
• Strategic thinking
• Stakeholder management
• Distributed systems design
• Cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP)
• Hardware-software integration / IoT

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