Principal Technical Architect - Billing Platform (Town of Texas)

• Lead architectural design decisions and provide technical leadership to ensure scalable and maintainable end-to-end solutions across multiple systems and Metro Billing capabilities.
• Develop and maintain solution designs from concept through deployment, ensuring alignment with architecture standards, engineering best practices, and business requirements.
• Partner closely with engineering teams to review application code, validate implementation approaches, and provide technical guidance throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Translate business initiatives and requirements into scalable technical solutions while identifying implementation risks, dependencies, and opportunities for modernization.
• Balance innovation with platform stability by recommending where new technologies and approaches should be adopted and where existing solutions should be maintained.
• Own overall architecture for multiple capabilities, collaborating on frameworks, standards, and reusable components to support enterprise technology consistency.
• Engage with business stakeholders during project ideation to define solution options and support business case development prior to project initiation.
• Communicate solution designs through architecture diagrams, technical documentation, and design reviews using tools such as Lucid and Confluence.
• Collaborate with Agile delivery teams using Jira to support planning, execution, and solution governance.
• Coach and mentor engineers through architecture discussions, design reviews, and technical decision‑making while promoting engineering best practices.
• Evaluate and leverage AI‑assisted engineering tools, such as Claude, to improve engineering productivity where appropriate.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree plus 7 years of related work experience OR Advanced degree with 5 years of related experience (Required)
• Acceptable areas of study include Computer Science, Engineering or a related field. (Required)
• 7-10 years Progressive experience in software engineering/enterprise architecture/technology leadership across multiple products, systems and/or platforms coupled with strong business acumen and executive presence. (Required)
• 7-10 years Experience working in solutions design and enterprise architecture delivering IT solutions. (Required)
• 7-10 years Experience in Enterprise applications, PLM, middle-tier services, database, storage, distributed computing, virtualization and/or application technology. (Required)

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in architectural design and technical leadership, ensuring scalable solutions and alignment with engineering best practices. Proficient in collaborating with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to translate business requirements into effective technical strategies.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Enterprise Architecture
• Solutions Design
• Technical Leadership
• Agile Methodologies
• Software Development Lifecycle

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• Architectural Design
• Software Engineering
• Technical Documentation
• Application Code Review
• AI-Assisted Engineering Tools

Soft Skills

• Coaching
• Mentoring
• Communication
• Collaboration

Industry Keywords

• Enterprise Applications
• PLM
• Distributed Computing
• Virtualization
• Middle-Tier Services

Tools & Technologies

• Lucid
• Confluence
• Jira