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Principal Architect, Enterprise AI (Distinguish IT SWE)
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Principal Architect, Enterprise AI (Distinguish IT SWE)
role at Jobs via Dice. Our Mission: At Palo Alto Networks everything starts and ends with our mission: Becoming the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life. Company Description: Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we're looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are. Your Career
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Distinguished Architect for Enterprise AI Platform , you will be driving the design, implementation, scaling, and evangelism of the end-to-end platform used across IT and Enterprise business functions (Sales, Marketing, Finance, HR, Legal, etc). You will lead our transformation toward AI-first development practices while optimizing developer productivity and modernizing our enterprise application landscape. This role bridges the gap between emerging AI technologies and practical enterprise needs while establishing architectural standards that accelerate delivery velocity across the organization. The Distinguished Architect will ensure that all transformation efforts are strategically aligned, scalable, reusable, and sustainable. This role directly impacts the organization’s ability to innovate faster, reduce time-to-market, and maintain engineering excellence while scaling AI capabilities across all business functions. Your Impact Vision & Design: Define and evangelize enterprise-wide architectural vision for engineering excellence, developer productivity platforms, and AI-integrated applications. Engg Excellence: Establish architectural principles, design patterns, and engineering standards that prioritize quality, reliability, maintainability, and AI-first approaches. Drive technical strategy for internal developer platforms (IDPs), code quality frameworks, development toolchains, reducing tech debt and improving delivery velocity. Design and implement comprehensive code quality frameworks including automated testing, static analysis, and security scanning. Architect self-service capabilities, automated testing frameworks, and deployment pipelines with built-in quality gates. Technology & Platforms: Champion platform engineering practices, infrastructure-as-code methodologies, and shift-left quality approaches. Drive selection of AI tools, frameworks, cloud solutions, and hybrid infrastructure that align with business and engineering needs. Governance: Establish metrics and observability systems to measure and continuously improve developer productivity, code quality, and security posture. Promote adoption of a consistent technology stack reducing complexity. Lead the integration of AI/ML capabilities into enterprise applications and development workflows. Cross functional leadership: Collaborate with engineering leadership to align architectural decisions with business objectives and quality standards. Foster a culture of continuous learning, technical excellence, and engineering craftsmanship. Innovation Leadership: Actively learn and incorporate advances in AI, GenAI, LLMs, AIOps, and scalable architectures. Bring emerging innovations into production through POCs, hackathons, and controlled experimentation. Qualifications
Your Experience 15+ years in software engineering, distributed systems, or enterprise architecture, including 7+ years leading enterprise and application architecture at scale. Proven expertise in designing complex, enterprise-grade platforms (custom applications and SaaS solutions), ideally across multiple domains (e.g., customer support, finance, sales). Experience with application modernization, cloud native architecture, API first design principles, integration strategies, event driven architecture, disaster recovery, and application security patterns. Deep knowledge of AI innovations and practical understanding of the full AI lifecycle for developer experience, building agents, apps. Extensive experience with distributed systems architecture, microservices, multi cloud, hybrid cloud, integration platforms, data platforms, and data lakes. Strong communication skills with a track record of influencing across VP+ and cross-org stakeholders. Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field. Must be located in SF Bay area Additional Information The Team: Working at a high-tech cybersecurity company within Information Technology is a unique opportunity. You will join a team focused on protecting our digital way of life and enabling global teams. We value collaboration, learning, and problem-solving. EEO & Immigration: Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship? Yes. Compensation: The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates offered at the posted level, the starting base salary is expected to be between $243,000 – $335,000 per year, plus potential stock units and a bonus. Benefits are described in our benefits documentation.
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Principal Architect, Enterprise AI (Distinguish IT SWE)
role at Jobs via Dice. Our Mission: At Palo Alto Networks everything starts and ends with our mission: Becoming the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life. Company Description: Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we're looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are. Your Career
As a
Distinguished Architect for Enterprise AI Platform , you will be driving the design, implementation, scaling, and evangelism of the end-to-end platform used across IT and Enterprise business functions (Sales, Marketing, Finance, HR, Legal, etc). You will lead our transformation toward AI-first development practices while optimizing developer productivity and modernizing our enterprise application landscape. This role bridges the gap between emerging AI technologies and practical enterprise needs while establishing architectural standards that accelerate delivery velocity across the organization. The Distinguished Architect will ensure that all transformation efforts are strategically aligned, scalable, reusable, and sustainable. This role directly impacts the organization’s ability to innovate faster, reduce time-to-market, and maintain engineering excellence while scaling AI capabilities across all business functions. Your Impact Vision & Design: Define and evangelize enterprise-wide architectural vision for engineering excellence, developer productivity platforms, and AI-integrated applications. Engg Excellence: Establish architectural principles, design patterns, and engineering standards that prioritize quality, reliability, maintainability, and AI-first approaches. Drive technical strategy for internal developer platforms (IDPs), code quality frameworks, development toolchains, reducing tech debt and improving delivery velocity. Design and implement comprehensive code quality frameworks including automated testing, static analysis, and security scanning. Architect self-service capabilities, automated testing frameworks, and deployment pipelines with built-in quality gates. Technology & Platforms: Champion platform engineering practices, infrastructure-as-code methodologies, and shift-left quality approaches. Drive selection of AI tools, frameworks, cloud solutions, and hybrid infrastructure that align with business and engineering needs. Governance: Establish metrics and observability systems to measure and continuously improve developer productivity, code quality, and security posture. Promote adoption of a consistent technology stack reducing complexity. Lead the integration of AI/ML capabilities into enterprise applications and development workflows. Cross functional leadership: Collaborate with engineering leadership to align architectural decisions with business objectives and quality standards. Foster a culture of continuous learning, technical excellence, and engineering craftsmanship. Innovation Leadership: Actively learn and incorporate advances in AI, GenAI, LLMs, AIOps, and scalable architectures. Bring emerging innovations into production through POCs, hackathons, and controlled experimentation. Qualifications
Your Experience 15+ years in software engineering, distributed systems, or enterprise architecture, including 7+ years leading enterprise and application architecture at scale. Proven expertise in designing complex, enterprise-grade platforms (custom applications and SaaS solutions), ideally across multiple domains (e.g., customer support, finance, sales). Experience with application modernization, cloud native architecture, API first design principles, integration strategies, event driven architecture, disaster recovery, and application security patterns. Deep knowledge of AI innovations and practical understanding of the full AI lifecycle for developer experience, building agents, apps. Extensive experience with distributed systems architecture, microservices, multi cloud, hybrid cloud, integration platforms, data platforms, and data lakes. Strong communication skills with a track record of influencing across VP+ and cross-org stakeholders. Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field. Must be located in SF Bay area Additional Information The Team: Working at a high-tech cybersecurity company within Information Technology is a unique opportunity. You will join a team focused on protecting our digital way of life and enabling global teams. We value collaboration, learning, and problem-solving. EEO & Immigration: Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship? Yes. Compensation: The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates offered at the posted level, the starting base salary is expected to be between $243,000 – $335,000 per year, plus potential stock units and a bonus. Benefits are described in our benefits documentation.
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