Software Engineering Principal Application Architect Professional Bellevue, US

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Your role and responsibilities

As an Application Architect, you will design applications that automate business processes and meet business needs, resulting in designs that may run on multiple platforms and comprise multiple software packages and custom components.

Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Design Applications: Define and develop comprehensive application designs that meet business requirements, ensuring quality, performance, availability, scalability, and integrity.
• Evaluate and Select Components: Critically evaluate and select software components, hardware requirements, and development methods, defining best practices for application development.
• Ensure Application Usability: Develop functional interfaces to applications, ensuring usability and seamless user experience.
• Define Development Processes: Establish development processes, best practices, and tools to ensure efficient and effective application development.
• Ensure Quality and Performance: Oversee application-related quality, performance, availability, scalability, and integrity, driving excellence in application architecture.

Required education

High School Diploma/GED

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Deep Expertise in Data Cloud Architecture: Proven experience designing comprehensive data cloud solutions that unify, govern, and activate enterprise data across business processes, with a strong understanding of data quality, performance, availability, scalability, and integrity considerations across ingestion, storage, transformation, and consumption layers.
• Critical Evaluation and Selection: Deep expertise in critically evaluating and selecting data platform components, compute and storage architectures, integration patterns (ETL/ELT, streaming, CDC, reverse ETL), and modeling methodologies, with a proven track record of defining best practices for data cloud implementation.
• Technical Leadership in Data Engineering Processes: Experience establishing data development processes, governance frameworks, and tooling (orchestration, observability, lineage, catalog) to ensure efficient and effective data product delivery, with a focus on driving excellence in data architecture and platform engineering.
• Mastery of Data Consumption and Activation: Proven experience developing semantic layers, data products, and self-service interfaces that ensure usability and seamless analyst, business, and downstream system experience, with a strong understanding of data contracts, schema design, and consumer‑centric modeling principles.
• Enterprise Vision for Data Trust and Performance: Deep expertise in overseeing data quality, performance, availability, scalability, and integrity across the platform, with a proven ability to drive strategic decision‑making and shape the enterprise vision for data cloud architecture, governance, and value realization.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Advanced Technical Knowledge: Deep expertise in emerging technologies, programming languages, and software development methodologies, with the ability to apply this knowledge to drive innovation and excellence in application architecture.
• Cross‑Domain Expertise: Experience working across multiple domains, industries, or technical areas, with the ability to integrate knowledge and drive strategic decision‑making in application architecture.
• Enterprise Architecture: Deep understanding of enterprise architecture principles, frameworks, and best practices, with the ability to shape the enterprise vision for application architecture and drive strategic alignment.

Other relevant job details

• Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being
• Financial programs such as 401(k), cash balance pension plan, the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long‑term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance‑based salary incentive programs
• Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law
• Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI‑driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry‑recognized certifications to achieve their career goals
• Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full‑time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job‑related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part‑time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro‑rated for those who start working during the calendar year.

IBM is proud to be an equal‑opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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Job Title

Date posted

03-Jun-2026

Job ID

116994

City / Township / Village

Bellevue

State / Province

Washington

Country

United States

Work arrangement

Onsite

Area of work

Software Engineering

Employment type

Regular

Contract type

Regular

Projected Minimum Salary per year

175,000.00

Projected Maximum Salary per year

327,000.00

Position type

Professional

Some travel may be required based on business demand

Company

(0147) International Business Machines Corporation

Shift

General (daytime)