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Xforia, Inc.

Data Technical Architect

New York, NY · On-site

$69.75 - $89.75/hr

Serve as the principal technical mentor and coach for the Data Quality Engineering team, guiding them on architectural patterns, design principles, and best practices for data quality solutioning.

Auria

Principal Technical Lead

Albuquerque, NM · On-site

$165K - $205K/yr

This opening requires full-time presence in Kirtland AFB, NM The Hybrid Architecture and ... The Principal Technical Lead serves as the senior technical authority for the HADES Program and is ...

GM Financial

Technical Principal - GenAI

Irving, TX · Hybrid

Expertise in software engineering that includes architecture, development, and testing experience ... The Principal AI Engineer is a handson technical leader and thought partner who guides teams in ...

Mondo

Principal Cloud Architect

Newtown Square, PA · On-site

$85 - $95/hr

Principal Cloud Architect, location is Hybrid (Herndon, VA). The start date is ASAP for this ... Design technical architectures spanning SAP BTP, S/4HANA, ECC, integration, security, and cloud ...

GM Financial

Technical Principal - GenAI

Irving, TX · On-site

The Principal AI Engineer is a hands-on technical leader and thought partner who guides teams in ... This role partners closely with product, enterprise architecture, security, and engineering ...

HDR

Associate Technical Design Principal

Dallas, TX · On-site

We believe architecture is more than designing buildings, it's about providing solutions to ... In the role of Associate Technical Design Principal, we'll count on you to: * Take responsibility ...

Caxy

Principal Technical Lead

Chicago, IL · On-site

They are looking for a Principal Technical Lead to take over technical leadership and architecture for a mature platform that powers gaming experiences. The role involves leading a team of engineers ...

VeridianTech

ServiceNow Solution Architect

Holly Springs, NC · On-site

$54.50 - $71.75/hr

Partner with Platform Architects and Principal Technical Consultants to define: * Technical architecture and module boundaries * Integration patterns (REST/SOAP APIs, Integration Hub, MID Server)

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How much do principal technical architect jobs pay per month?

As of Aug 15, 2026, the average monthly pay for principal technical architect in the United States is $13,006.33, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $10,166.67 and $15,833.33 per month, depending on experience, location, and employer.

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A Principal Technical Architect plays a central role in cross-functional collaboration, working closely with product managers, development teams, operations, and business stakeholders. They are often responsible for aligning technical solutions with business goals, facilitating design reviews, and ensuring architectural consistency across multiple teams. This role involves regular communication to resolve technical challenges, mentor other architects or engineers, and guide the adoption of best practices throughout the project lifecycle. Effective collaboration is key to ensuring the successful delivery of complex, enterprise-level solutions.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as a principal technical architect, and why are they important?

To thrive as a Principal Technical Architect, you need deep expertise in software architecture, systems design, and a strong background in computer science or engineering, often supported by a relevant degree or certifications. Familiarity with architectural frameworks (like TOGAF), cloud platforms (such as AWS or Azure), and DevOps tools is typically required. Exceptional leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills set top performers apart in this role. These competencies are crucial for designing robust, scalable solutions and aligning technical strategy with business objectives.

What is a principal technical architect?

A Principal Technical Architect is a senior-level professional responsible for designing and overseeing the overall technical architecture of large-scale systems or projects within an organization. They provide strategic direction, set technology standards, and ensure that solutions align with business objectives and technical requirements. Principal Technical Architects often lead technical teams, mentor other architects and engineers, and collaborate with stakeholders to deliver robust, scalable, and secure systems.
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Principal Technical Coach, IT

American Airlines

Phoenix, AZ • On-site

Full-time

Medical, Dental, Vision, Retirement

Posted 8 days ago

American Airlines rating

8.0

Company rating: 8.0 out of 10

Based on 370 frontline employees who took The Breakroom Quiz

6th of 26 rated airlines

Job description

8/7/26
Location: Rio West E Bldg (PHX-RWE1)
Cities: Phoenix - AZ
Requisition ID: 87388
Job Description
Intro
Are you ready to explore a world of possibilities, both at work and duringyour time off? Join our American Airlines family, and you'll travel the world, grow your expertise and become the best version of you. As you embark on a new journey, you'll tackle challenges with flexibility and grace, learning new skills and advancing your career while having the time of your life. Feel free to enrich both your personal and work life and hop on board!
Why you'll love this job
American Airlines is looking for Technical coaches of all levels. As a Technical coach at American Airlines, you will be guiding product teams and leaders to achieve the company objectives and product vision through the use of engineering principles. American Airlines believes that our purpose is to care for our people on life's journey, customer or team member. You will be part of a team of coaches making a difference for millions of customers and more than 100,000 team members.
Our goal is to create an enviable, engineering-centric workplace. What does that mean though? Deploying is painless, you have a strong voice, communication flows, we experiment with our products, and we exploit new technology to continuously improve how we work. Of course, we also want to make sure we are having fun, working with, and caring for amazing people.
  • The role of the Principal Technical coach is to help teams, products, portfolios, or even an entire organization to the next level of customer delivery
  • As a Principal Technical coach, you will leverage your technical and engineering experience getting hands on to solve real world problems, guiding leaders and teams to understand, embrace and evangelize modern engineering practices
  • This will be an opportunity to help shape the go forward technical strategies and reinforce current strategies to deliver amazing tech products to our customers
  • The Principal Technical coach will also play an integral role in developing technical coaching strategies as well as mentoring other coaches to build a world class coaching organization
  • The Principal Technical coach will be developing cutting edge code side by side with teams every day

What you'll do
As noted above, this list is intended to reflect the current job but there may be additional essential functions (and certainly non-essential job functions) that are not referenced. Management will modify the job or require other tasks be performed whenever it is deemed appropriate to do so, observing, of course, any legal obligations including any collective bargaining obligations.
  • Serve as a go-to expert on modern technology, architecture, engineering, and DevOps practices
  • Work with technical leaders and teams throughout the enterprise to influence and support the engineering culture at American Airlines
  • Collaborate with teams, products, portfolios, or an entire org on reaching the next level of customer delivery leveraging technology and modern engineering practices
  • Be a mentor and getting hands on with other technical coaches, software engineers, technical leads, or architects on learning and applying modern architecture, DevOps and engineering practices to solve business problems
  • Design and develop facilitator-lead materials related to modern engineering practices
  • Bring your real-world software engineering experience to the enablement organization to help build a viable community of technical coaches and practitioners throughout the enterprise
  • Through coaching soft skills, build trust, evaluate team's current practices /methodologies and recommend appropriate next steps to achieve modern engineering outcomes
  • Develop and influence learning strategies for software engineers, technical leads, architects, and other technical leaders
  • This list is intended to reflect the current job, but there may be additional essential functions (and certainly non-essential job functions) that are not referenced

All you'll need for success
Minimum Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience
Required (At least 3 of the following):
  • 6 years of software engineering and/or DevOps experience
  • 2 years of experience as a tech lead on a software engineering team
  • Bachelor's Degree in computer science, computer engineering or related fields or equivalent work experience
  • Hands-on experience with engineering practices such as object-oriented design patterns, Extreme Programming, cloud design patterns, TDD, BDD, refactoring, automation, or continuous integration
  • Experience with implementing and operating DevOps tools/platforms across some part of the development lifecycle.
    • These could include but may not be limited to Azure cloud computing, GitHub, Jenkins, Maven, Nexus, Hygieia, SonarQube, New Relic, or other similar tools
  • Proven experience in SQL and ability to design relational database schemas
  • Experience in coaching and mentoring others on various development, build, and deployment practices as well as DevOps principles

Preferred Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience
    • Experience in multiple programing languages and IDE
    • Experience in designing and implementing automated test suites
    • Proven experience in web framework
    • Experience designing, implementing and using end to end Continuous Delivery pipelines
    • Deep infrastructure experience delivering and operating either virtualized on-premises or public cloud services in a large-scale production environment (for example: network, security, or deployment automation)
    • Familiarity with microservices architecture
    • Experience delivering software using an agile methodology like Extreme Programming, Kanban, or Scrum

Skills, Licenses & Certifications
    • Ability to assess agility needs and make recommendations based on team, product, or portfolio needs
    • Ability to identify when /where flow of work is impeded and work with the team to remove those impediments
    • A growth mindset with enthusiasm for learning new technologies quickly and applying the gained knowledge to address business problems
    • Expert communication skills with teams and leaders at all levels
    • Ability to find creative ways of improving and simplifying solutions, systems, and processes without getting bogged down in blockers or bottlenecks

What you'll get
Feel free to take advantage of all that American Airlines has to offer:
  • Travel Perks: Ready to explore the world? You, your family and your friends can reach 365 destinations on more than 6,800 daily flights across our global network.
  • Health Benefits: On day one, you'll have access to your health, dental, prescription and vision benefits to help you stay well. And that's just the start, we also offer virtual doctor visits, flexible spending accounts and more.
  • Wellness Programs: We want you to be the best version of yourself - that's why our wellness programs provide you with all the right tools, resources and support you need.
  • 401(k) Program: Available upon hire and, depending on the workgroup, employer contributions to your 401(k) program are available after one year.
    • Additional Benefits: Other great benefits include our Employee Assistance Program, pet insurance and discounts on hotels, cars, cruises and more

Feel free to be yourself at American
From the team members we hire to the customers we serve, inclusion and diversity are the foundation of the dynamic workforce at American Airlines. Our 20+ Team Member Business Resource Groups are focused on connecting our team members to our customers, suppliers, communities and shareholders, helping team members reach their full potential and creating an inclusive work environment to meet and exceed the needs of our diverse world.
Are you ready to feel a tremendous sense of pride and satisfaction as you do your part to keep the largest airline in the world running smoothly as we care for people on life's journey? Feel free to be yourself at American.

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