Principal Enterprise Architect
Core
Senior individual-contributor authority responsible for building and maintaining the coherent technical foundation of First Student's custom digital products, cloud infrastructure, and emerging agent-based autonomous software systems.
Role type
Principal Enterprise Architect (hands-on IC)
Builds
Custom digital products (parent app, customer-facing applications, internal platforms), AWS cloud paved road (landing zones, reference implementations), and guardrails for agent-based software development.
Domain
Transportation industry + Cloud-native architecture + Autonomous/Agent-based AI systems
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Enterprise architecture strategy, AWS cloud architecture (landing zones, automated provisioning), AI and agent-based system design, large-scale custom software integration, security-by-design (policy-as-code), team topology design, emerging technology assessment.
Preferred skills
TOGAF certification, AWS Solutions Architect – Professional certification, EV/IoT/on-bus technology experience.
Technologies
AWS, TOGAF, Agile/Scrum, ITIL, policy-as-code frameworks.
Responsibilities
Synthesize competing inputs into coherent target architecture, design shared digital services and integration layers, build cloud reference architectures and golden paths, prototype guardrails for autonomous agent runtimes, encode security/compliance into construction pipelines, design team boundaries and interaction modes, evaluate and pilot emerging technologies.
Seniority
Principal, hands-on IC with enterprise-wide remit
