5 days ago
Principal Strategic Architect
Palo Alto, California
$187,000-$253,000 / year
full-timeseniorEnterprise Software
Tech Stack
Description
You will serve as the senior-most technical authority for flagship customers, shaping long-term technology strategy including enterprise automation, integration, and AI-driven architectures on the Workato platform. You'll influence multi-year roadmaps and executive decision-making to ensure customers realize sustained business value at scale. This role blends deep consulting expertise, enterprise architecture leadership, and fluency in emerging technologies to guide complex transformation initiatives.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
- 20+ years of technology transformation consulting experience including integration, middleware, or API management platforms
- 15+ years in Enterprise Architect, Digital Architect, or similar senior architecture role
- Demonstrated experience advising C-level executives on technology strategy and enterprise transformation
- Strong understanding of enterprise security, governance, and operating models
- Proven track record of driving platform expansion and value realization through professional services
- Excellent executive communication skills including board-level presentations and strategic documentation
- Ability to operate independently in complex, ambiguous environments and take ownership of outcomes
- Travel to client site up to 50%
Responsibilities
- Serve as primary executive technical advisor to customer CIOs, CTOs, and senior business stakeholders
- Own long-term customer architecture and automation strategy aligned to business priorities
- Lead executive-level discussions on platform adoption, operating models, and governance maturity
- Shape and guide customers' AI and agentic automation journeys leveraging Workato's capabilities
- Advise on design and adoption of agent-based workflows and human-in-the-loop models
- Define enterprise MCP strategies including context management and secure orchestration
- Drive software expansion, adoption depth, and renewal confidence through strategic advisory
- Identify and shape multi-year expansion opportunities tied to automation and AI transformation
- Lead high-impact professional services engagements requiring executive-level judgment
- Apply and evolve Workato advisory methodologies across customer environments
- Define and enforce architecture principles, standards, and guardrails across implementations
- Contribute to evolution of Workato's architecture frameworks, AI patterns, and best practices
- Create reusable executive-level assets such as reference architectures and strategy decks
- Serve as a Workato evangelist articulating platform value
- Mentor and enable Strategic Advisors, Technical Architects, and post-sales teams
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