Principal Enterprise Architect
Core
Principal Enterprise Architect responsible for building and maintaining the coherent technical foundation of First Student's custom digital products and cloud-native infrastructure on AWS, with a focus on enabling autonomous, agent-based software development.
Role type
Senior individual-contributor enterprise architect (cloud & agentic systems)
Builds
Custom digital products (parent app, customer-facing applications, internal platforms), AWS cloud paved road (landing zones, reference architectures), and guardrails for agent-based software development.
Domain
Education technology / Student transportation / Cloud-native architecture / AI & Autonomous systems
Required skills
Enterprise architecture, AWS cloud architecture, AI and agent-based systems design, large-scale custom software integration, security and compliance by design, team topology design, emerging technology assessment.
Preferred skills
TOGAF certification, AWS Solutions Architect – Professional certification, EV technology, IoT, on-bus technology solutions.
Technologies
AWS, TOGAF, Zachman, FEAF, Agile/Scrum, ITIL.
Responsibilities
Synthesize competing inputs into coherent target architecture, design shared digital services and enterprise integration layer, build cloud paved road with automated provisioning, design guardrail layer for agent-based development, encode security and regulatory requirements into policy-as-code, drive adoption of architecture standards, translate business goals into architecture, evaluate and pilot emerging technologies.
Seniority
Principal, hands-on IC
