Principal Platform Architect

The Principal Platform Architect is one of the most senior technical roles at Liatrio. You are accountable for the strategic technical direction of major enterprise Platform transformation engagements — setting the architectural vision, defining how enterprises evolve their delivery capabilities, and ensuring what we deliver creates durable, lasting change. 

You walk into complex enterprise organizations with fragmented toolchains and years of accumulated technical debt, and you build a credible path forward — articulating it to a CTO in the morning and working through the details with a platform engineer in the afternoon.

Enterprise Technical Strategy and Architecture

You're making architectural decisions that shape how a large enterprise builds, delivers, and operates software at scale — decisions that affect dozens of teams and how the organization moves for years to come. Leading teams of 30-40+ engineers, that looks like:

• Defining the entire technical direction for major enterprise Platform transformation engagements — the target state architecture, the platform strategy, the sequencing, and the standards that dozens of teams will build against

• Designing the cloud-native platform architecture that determines how the organization operates at scale — how workloads run, how pipelines deliver, how teams self-serve, and how the business stays secure and compliant as it grows

• Shaping enterprise-scale CI/CD strategy that transforms how engineering teams deliver software — standardizing toolchains, establishing governance models, and building the foundation that makes continuous delivery a reality across the organization

• Defining the observability and DevSecOps architecture that changes how the organization operates and secures its systems — not just implementing tools, but establishing the practices and standards that become the new way of working

• Building the technical roadmap that connects the organization's current state to its future state — balancing investment, risk, regulatory constraints, and the speed of change the business actually needs

• Partnering with the Strategic Principal to shape SOWs, working directly with C-suite, CTO, CIO, VP of Engineering, and Chief Architect stakeholders to align technical strategy to organizational goals

• Anticipating where engagements are heading — surfacing risks and proactively shaping strategy before problems become crises

 

Client Relationship and Influence

• Build and maintain deep, trusted relationships with CTO, CIO, VP of Engineering, and Chief Architect stakeholders — the kind of relationships where clients call you before making major platform or delivery decisions

• Guide clients through complex Platform transformations — removing impediments, building consensus, and keeping transformation on track when it gets hard

• Influence how engineering organizations operate and help clients build the capabilities to sustain transformation after Liatrio's engagement ends

 

Architecture and Engineering

• You've defined and driven Platform transformation roadmaps for large enterprises — the technical architecture, sequencing, change management, and organizational adoption plan that made new ways of working actually take hold across dozens of teams and multiple business units

• You've overseen complex, multi-workstream engagements leading teams of 30-40+ engineers — making the architectural decisions that shape how the organization builds, delivers, and operates its platform at scale for years to come

• You have deep expertise in CI/CD at enterprise scale — standardizing pipelines across large engineering organizations, rationalizing toolchains, and building governance structures that let teams move fast without losing control

• You've led cloud-native platform adoption at enterprise scale — Kubernetes, managed container services, or other orchestration platforms — including the platform engineering layer that defines how the organization operates its software at scale

• You've built observability cultures at enterprise scale — the practices, runbooks, on-call structures, and feedback loops that make large engineering organizations genuinely capable of operating what they build

 

AI and Intelligent Systems

• You've built or integrated AI capabilities into production systems — delivery pipelines, developer tooling, or operational workflows — and understand the architecture, failure modes, and what it takes to keep them reliable

• You can have a credible executive-level conversation about where AI creates genuine leverage in a Platform transformation — grounded in what's real, not just what's on the roadmap