Principal Enterprise Architect

The role

The Principal Enterprise Architect provides technical leadership for complex global sales engagements. This role acts as a bridge between the field and product management to influence product direction and market strategy.

What you will do

• Serve as a principal technical advisor for complex global sales opportunities.
• Define and maintain reusable enterprise reference architectures and integration blueprints.
• Co-create and evangelize solution visions with C-level executives.
• Set technical objectives and architectural approaches for proof-of-value engagements.
• Own the technical strategy and architectural narrative for multi-million-dollar pursuits.
• Synthesize customer and competitive insights into recommendations for product strategy.
• Partner with Product Management on high-stakes pursuits for emerging capabilities.
• Lead cross-functional resolution of strategic architectural issues.
• Develop architectural capabilities of senior Solutions Consulting ICs through mentorship.
• Represent Reltio as a thought leader at conferences and executive councils.

Required qualifications

• Minimum 15 years of pre-sales, solution architecture, or enterprise architecture experience in enterprise software.
• Extensive track record on complex data unification, AI, and platform engagements.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a deeply related technical field.
• Expertise in enterprise data architecture, master data management, cloud-native technologies, and advanced AI/ML applications.
• Ability to design and defend end-to-end solution architectures in heterogeneous enterprise environments.
• Ability to build trusted advisor relationships with C-suite executives at Fortune 500 companies.
• Experience winning landmark, multi-year, multi-million-dollar enterprise software deals globally.
• Experience working directly with Product Management to translate field insight into product direction.
• Deep expertise in enterprise data platforms, master data management, and data unification.
• Ability to evaluate emerging technology trends for customer architecture and product direction.
• Superior communication, presentation, and storytelling skills.
• Ability to lead complex technical initiatives through influence and mentor senior professionals.

Nice to have

• Ph.D. or Master's degree in Computer Science, AI, Data Science, or a related advanced technical field.
• Hands-on architectural expertise and at least one certification with a major cloud platform (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Familiarity with the SAP ecosystem and SAP Business Data Cloud.
• Prior experience in a product-facing, field-CTO, or design-partner role.
• A frequent event speaker or author of content in data unification, AI, distributed systems, or enterprise architecture.
• Proven ability to invent and prototype novel solutions.
• Ability to build productive relationships with industry experts, technology partners, and customer architecture leaders.

About the company

Reltio, an SAP company, provides a context intelligence solution that turns fragmented data into connected context for AI agents and systems. The company was founded on a distributed workforce and offers flexible work arrangements.