nexus-cognitive - Principal Solutions Architect
Requirements
• 12–18 years in enterprise data/cloud architecture as an SA, principal engineer, or equivalent • At least one prior multi-year embedded engagement at a Tier 1 bank or equivalent regulated enterprise — you know what it means to be a vendor inside another organization's culture for 12+ months • Hands-on or recent hands-on depth in the modern OSS data stack: Spark, Trino, Airflow, Iceberg, Kubernetes, S3-compatible object storage, Kafka — at petabyte scale, with hundreds of pipelines • Experience producing and defending design documents in front of hostile architecture review boards • Track record of identifying expansion or net-new use cases through architectural insight at a large customer — named examples of "I saw the customer's next workload before they did, qualified it, and partnered with sales to expand" • Willingness to be on-site in Charlotte, NC (primary) and NYC (secondary) at 80%+ cadence • Deep familiarity with bank IT culture and governance: risk and control frameworks, TPRM, change management, audit cycles, regulatory reporting patterns • Strong differentiators • Prior embedded experience in a highly regulated industry, as a vendor SA • Hands-on with relevant workloads: regulatory reporting pipelines, CCAR/DFAST data, AML/KYC, customer 360, treasury and liquidity • Open-source contributions in NX1 stack components (Iceberg, Spark, Trino, Airflow) • Conference presence at Subsurface, Trino Summit, or Airflow Summit in FS-adjacent tracks
Responsibilities
• Architecture & Technical Farming (65%) • Hold design authority over NX1 deployment patterns at the customer — attend and actively contribute to architecture review boards, security reviews, and data governance forums • Design and defend the integration architecture across the customer's data stack: identity federation, CDC patterns, governance metadata, data lineage, network segmentation, encryption • Identify the next workloads NX1 is positioned to support before the customer has fully articulated them — and qualify those opportunities with stakeholder context and technical depth before handing them to the AE • Produce high-quality design documents that hold up to hostile review boards without you in the room • Serve as the technical escalation point when NX1 deployment issues arise at the customer • Engagement & Commercial Partnership (35%) • Own the NX1 internal cadence on the account — keep engineering, FDEs, product, and the AE aligned on what's happening at the customer • Maintain executive-level relationships with customer business and IT leadership at the appropriate cadence • Translate architectural farming insights into AE-usable expansion theses: technical case, stakeholder map, rough scope, customer political context — qualified opportunities, not loose architectural musings • Own escalation leadership when something breaks — you're the person in the room • Navigate vendor governance at a major bank: third-party risk reviews, audit responses, change management, vendor due diligence
Benefits
• At Nexus, we value people who want to grow — and support each other while doing so. • You can expect: • A collaborative team culture built on curiosity and respect • Challenging work where your contributions clearly matter • A leadership team that invests in learning and development
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