Required Skills & Experience

- 10+ years of Principal-level Architect experience within large-scale technology organizations.
- Strong background designing and evolving high-volume consumer-facing platforms.
- Deep experience leading legacy modernization, re-platforming, cloud migration, and platform consolidation initiatives in complex enterprise environments.
- Expertise in AWS, Kafka, event-driven architectures, distributed systems, and modern microservices patterns.
- Experience working with data platforms and analytics ecosystems, including Databricks and data architecture concepts (modeling, governance, and integration).
- Strong understanding of Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and how to define domain boundaries, ownership models, and scalable architectural patterns.
- Proven ability to evaluate technical tradeoffs and make architecture decisions balancing business goals, scalability, cost, risk, and engineering effort.
- Able to influence without authority, build consensus across teams, and communicate effectively from the C-suite to hands-on engineers.
- Experience in large, complex environments with significant platform sprawl, technical debt, and modernization challenges.

Nice to Have Skills & Experience
- Enterprise Architecture frameworks (TOGAF, etc.)
- Broader Enterprise Architecture or Data Architecture experience
- Experience supporting organizations with 1,000+ engineers and multiple product lines





A client in the live events and ticketing space is seeking a highly senior Principal Architect (T7 / Principal II) to help shape the architecture strategy across a global technology organization supporting 1,000+ engineers and some of the highest-scale consumer platforms in the world. This role sits within Enterprise Architecture and acts as a blend of Solutions Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, and Data Architecture, with a heavier emphasis on solutions/application architecture. You'll lead cross-functional initiatives, influence technical direction across multiple engineering teams, and drive modernization efforts across a complex ecosystem of legacy and modern platforms.

The ideal candidate brings deep experience designing and evolving consumer -facing applications, with expertise in AWS, Kafka, Databricks, event-driven architectures, microservices, distributed systems, and modern data platforms. They should be battle-tested in legacy modernization, re-platforming, cloud transformation, and platform consolidation, with a solid understanding of Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and architectural tradeoffs. This person must be able to operate autonomously, influence without direct authority, and communicate effectively from the C-suite down to engineering teams, balancing technical, business, and organizational priorities while driving alignment across a highly complex environment.

📌 Principal Architect (Canada)
🏢 Insight Global
📍 Canada