Principal Quality Architect

Job description

Overview The Principal Quality Architect defines, evolves, and champions the enterprise quality strategy to ensure consistent, measurable product quality across engineering domains. This role operates at an enterprise level, influencing quality engineering practices, establishing standards and metrics, and embedding quality into the architecture, development, and delivery of software systems. This leader partners closely with engineering leadership, domain quality leaders, and architects to improve reliability, testability, observability, and delivery confidence across the organization. Responsibilities: - Define and continuously evolve the enterprise quality strategy, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and consistency across engineering domains. - Establish and maintain enterprise quality standards, frameworks, and practices across the software development lifecycle, including cloud‑based and SaaS platforms. - Guide enterprise‑level testing strategies and quality architectures, with a strong emphasis on automation‑first approaches. - Define, collect, and monitor enterprise software quality metrics (e.g., defect trends, test coverage, pipeline quality signals, production...