Principal Architect

  Architecture Strategy & Technical Direction   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. Cross-System Integrity & Feasibility   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. Standards & Governance   Propose R&D-wide architecture standards, reference architectures, and patterns to the Architecture Guild, which owns and adopts them. Guide the design documentation process, and apply governance that doesn't block delivery wherever possible. AI-Native Architecture Enablement   Turn standards, reference architectures, and decision records into machine-readable context that AI coding agents use to follow our patterns. Build and guide the adoption of automated architectural checks, such as fitness functions, architecture-as-code, and AI-assisted design review. Build feedback loops that turn design decisions, review findings, and incident lessons into reusable context and patterns for future work. Design standards and agent context that work across tools, and back them with evals that catch regressions against our architectural standards. Help teams keep their delivery gains through tool changes and failed experiments. Stay hands-on with prototypes, reference implementations, and design work. Use AI agents to draft and test designs, explore trade-offs, and shorten feasibility work from weeks to days. Maintains technical credibility and leadership through prototypes, reference implementations, architecture automation, and hands-on experimentation. Architecture Community & Guild Enablement   Develop domain and squad architects through mentoring and design coaching, and help define how architects grow in scope and influence at OneTrust. Support R&D's Guilds, including the Architecture and AI Enablement Guilds, as centers of excellence that own and evolve engineering standards. Provide the structure, facilitation, and hands-on help they need to define, pilot, and roll out those standards. Lead the Architecture Guild as a community of practice through regular forums, design clinics, and retrospectives that share knowledge and bring systemic problems to light. Define architecture scorecards for system health and standards adoption, and work with Developer Experience to build scorecards, templates, and catalog ownership into the developer workflow. Executive & Cross-Functional Partnership   Partner with Engineering, Product, and UX leadership on R&D's key technical decisions, and represent architecture in executive forums. Advise leadership on trade-offs in cost, risk, and delivery speed, and make the business case for architecture investments.