Principal Platform & Engagement Architect

Job description

Why Join Exadel We’re an AI-first global tech company with 25+ years of engineering leadership, 2,000+ team members, and 500+ active projects powering Fortune 500 clients, including HBO, Microsoft, Google, and Starbucks. From AI platforms to digital transformation, we partner with enterprise leaders to build what’s next. What powers it all? Our people are ambitious, collaborative, and constantly evolving. Project Duration: 6-month engagement with the possibility of extension What You’ll Do: - Lead structured technical discovery with the hardware and platform engineering teams to establish the API surface, platform readiness, and target workload definitions - Author the Architecture Decision Record (ADR) documenting the integration approach, technology choices, and key design decisions - Define the requirements baseline, functional and non-functional, and produce the risk register - Negotiate and agree the revised Statement of Work for Phases 1 and 2 with the client - Establish the reference workload definition and benchmark criteria to be used through the POC - Maintain technical governance and architectural coherence across the integration build - Direct the engineering team on co...