Principal Architect

Join Zafin, a leading provider of SaaS solutions for the financial services industry. As a Principal Architect, you will play a crucial role in defining and maintaining architectural standards, integration patterns, and technical governance for our AI-native platform, AI Operating System (AIOS). You will provide architectural leadership across client engagements, establish long-term technical direction, and ensure scalability, security, and alignment with enterprise architecture. This position offers flexible work arrangements, meaningful recognition, and ownership through a stock option plan.

• Defining and maintaining architectural standards, integration patterns, and technical governance for AI Operating System (AIOS).
• Ensuring that all squad-level architecture decisions align with enterprise standards, and that the platform remains scalable and maintainable at scale.
• Leading the development, governance, and adoption of reusable reference architectures, implementation patterns, and technical capabilities across client engagements.
• 15+ years of experience in enterprise technology delivery, including senior leadership or executive client-facing roles
• Excellent communicator who can translate architecture standards and technical concepts into practical guidance for engineers at different levels
• Experience designing enterprise-scale AI platforms incorporating agentic AI, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), orchestration frameworks, API ecosystems, and cloud-native architectures
• Demonstrated experience defining and scaling reusable technical standards across multiple teams or at an enterprise scale
• Ability to influence enterprise architecture decisions at CIO, Chief Architect, and executive technology leadership. This includes technical decisions and drive adoption without direct reporting authority over the engineers implementing the standards
• Experience providing technical leadership across multiple enterprise transformations simultaneously
• Deep expertise in agent orchestration frameworks, integration architecture, API design, and enterprise software architecture patterns
• Experience establishing reference architectures, technical standards, and governance models adopted across multiple delivery organizations
• Strong grounding in security and data governance patterns for AI/ML systems in regulated environments
• Prior experience as a Principal Architect, Chief Architect, at a software/SaaS or AI company
• Experience with Azure AI, AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, Open AI, Anthropic or comparable enterprise AI ecosystems
• Track record of building reusable component libraries or platforms that drove measurable adoption and reduced duplicate engineering effort
• Experience with enterprise architecture governance frameworks
• Background in financial services technology or regulated industries
• Published papers, speaking engagements, or open-source contributions demonstrating thought leadership in architecture
• Experience designing and implementing observability, monitoring, and governance systems for AI/ML platforms