Principal Platform Architect
Role Overview
The Forge Platform team is seeking a visionary and hands-on Principal Platform Architect to define and drive the platform architecture strategy. You will establish technical direction, guide strategic investments, and create reusable capabilities that improve product delivery, developer experience, and operational excellence.
You will influence architecture and engineering decisions across teams through expertise, collaboration, and clear communication.
What You'll Do
Define the Platform Vision
Own the architecture, vision, principles, and long-term technology roadmap for the Forge Platform.
Develop reference architectures, standards, and reusable design patterns that enable consistency and scale.
Drive cloud-native, API-first, event-driven, and microservices-based architectural approaches.
Align platform evolution with product priorities, business outcomes, and enterprise technology strategy.
Lead Technical Direction and Governance
Serve as the principal technical authority for platform architecture decisions and complex design challenges.
Lead architecture reviews and establish pragmatic governance, standards, and engineering guardrails.
Guide teams on scalability, resilience, security, performance, maintainability, and technical debt.
Drive architectural consistency and reuse across products, services, and engineering teams.
Advance Cloud and Platform Engineering
Define patterns for cloud-native development, deployment, and operations across Azure, AWS, GCP, or hybrid environments.
Shape architecture for Kubernetes, containers, CI/CD, DevSecOps, infrastructure-as-code, automation, and observability.
Enable secure, highly available platform services, APIs, identity capabilities, and self-service developer experiences.
Establish approaches for reliability, performance, disaster recovery, and operational readiness at scale.
Drive Innovation and Organizational Influence
Evaluate emerging technologies and lead proofs of concept for strategic platform investments.
Advance capabilities in AI/ML enablement, data integration, analytics, automation, and intelligent services.
Partner with Engineering, Product, Security, Infrastructure, Operations, and Enterprise Architecture teams.
Communicate architecture strategy, tradeoffs, and decisions to technical and executive stakeholders.
Mentor architects, principal engineers, technical leads, and senior engineers.
Key Skills for This Role
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About the Role
The Forge Platform team is seeking a visionary and hands-on Principal Platform Architect to define and drive the platform architecture strategy. You will establish technical direction, guide strategic investments, and create reusable capabilities that improve product delivery, developer experience, and operational excellence.
You will influence architecture and engineering decisions across teams through expertise, collaboration, and clear communication.
What You'll Do
Define the Platform Vision
Own the architecture, vision, principles, and long-term technology roadmap for the Forge Platform.
Develop reference architectures, standards, and reusable design patterns that enable consistency and scale.
Drive cloud-native, API-first, event-driven, and microservices-based architectural approaches.
Align platform evolution with product priorities, business outcomes, and enterprise technology strategy.
Lead Technical Direction and Governance
Serve as the principal technical authority for platform architecture decisions and complex design challenges.
Lead architecture reviews and establish pragmatic governance, standards, and engineering guardrails.
Guide teams on scalability, resilience, security, performance, maintainability, and technical debt.
Drive architectural consistency and reuse across products, services, and engineering teams.
Advance Cloud and Platform Engineering
Define patterns for cloud-native development, deployment, and operations across Azure, AWS, GCP, or hybrid environments.
Shape architecture for Kubernetes, containers, CI/CD, DevSecOps, infrastructure-as-code, automation, and observability.
Enable secure, highly available platform services, APIs, identity capabilities, and self-service developer experiences.
Establish approaches for reliability, performance, disaster recovery, and operational readiness at scale.
Drive Innovation and Organizational Influence
Evaluate emerging technologies and lead proofs of concept for strategic platform investments.
Advance capabilities in AI/ML enablement, data integration, analytics, automation, and intelligent services.
Partner with Engineering, Product, Security, Infrastructure, Operations, and Enterprise Architecture teams.
Communicate architecture strategy, tradeoffs, and decisions to technical and executive stakeholders.
Mentor architects, principal engineers, technical leads, and senior engineers.
Qualifications
- Must Haves
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related technical field.
- 12+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, or architecture roles.
- 5+ years of proven experience architecting and delivering enterprise-scale software platforms.
- 7+ years of expertise in distributed systems, APIs, microservices, event-driven architectures, and integration patterns.
- 3+ years of experience with at least one major cloud platform: Azure, AWS, or GCP.
- We Value
- Master's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Experience building or scaling an internal developer platform, SaaS platform, or enterprise digital platform.
- Experience with AI/ML platforms, data ecosystems, or advanced analytics capabilities.
- Expertise in security architecture, DevSecOps, SRE, and enterprise architecture governance.
- Experience with Kubernetes, containers, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, automation, and observability.
- Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction across multiple teams without direct authority.
- Excellent communication, systems thinking, and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Relevant cloud or architecture certifications.
- What Success Looks Like
- A clear, actionable Forge Platform architecture roadmap aligned with business and product priorities.
- Broader adoption of reusable platform services, standards, and architectural patterns.
- Improved platform reliability, scalability, security, performance, and operational efficiency.
- Faster product delivery and a simpler, more productive developer experience.
- Strong architectural alignment across engineering organizations without unnecessary process overhead.
- Why Join Us?
- This is an opportunity to shape the technical foundation of the Forge Platform and influence technology strategy at an enterprise scale. Your work will help engineering teams innovate faster, build more consistently, and deliver greater value to customers.
About Honeywell
Honeywell International Inc. (Nasdaq: HON) invents and commercializes technologies that address some of the world’s most critical challenges around energy, safety, security, productivity, and global urbanization. We are a leading software-industrial company committed to introducing state of the art technology solutions to improve efficiency, productivity, sustainability, and safety in high growth businesses in broad-based, attractive industrial end markets. Our products and solutions enable a safer, more comfortable, and more productive world, enhancing the quality of life of people around the globe. https://www.honeywell.com/us/en
Honeywell is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants for employment with Honeywell will be considered without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, age, sex (including sexual orientation, gender identity, and pregnancy) disability, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected status. Learn more
Benefits of Working for Honeywell
In addition to a performance-driven salary, cutting-edge work, and developing solutions side-by-side with dedicated experts in their fields, Honeywell employees are eligible for a comprehensive benefits package. This package includes employer-subsidized Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance; Short-Term and Long-Term Disability; 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, Health Savings Accounts, EAP, and Educational Assistance; Parental Leave, Paid Time Off (for vacation, personal business, sick time, and parental leave), and 12 Paid Holidays. For more information: https://benefits.honeywell.com/
Due to compliance with U.S. export control laws and regulations, candidate must be a U.S. person, which is defined as a U.S.citizen, a U.S. permanent resident, or have protected status in the U.S. under asylum or refugee status or have the ability to obtain an export authorization
The application period for the job is estimated to be 40 days from the job posting date; however, this may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates. Job Posting Date: October 13, 2026
Responsibilities
- Define the Platform Vision
- Own the architecture, vision, principles, and long-term technology roadmap for the Forge Platform.
- Develop reference architectures, standards, and reusable design patterns that enable consistency and scale.
- Drive cloud-native, API-first, event-driven, and microservices-based architectural approaches.
- Align platform evolution with product priorities, business outcomes, and enterprise technology strategy.
- Lead Technical Direction and Governance
- Serve as the principal technical authority for platform architecture decisions and complex design challenges.
- Lead architecture reviews and establish pragmatic governance, standards, and engineering guardrails.
- Guide teams on scalability, resilience, security, performance, maintainability, and technical debt.
- Drive architectural consistency and reuse across products, services, and engineering teams.
- Advance Cloud and Platform Engineering
- Define patterns for cloud-native development, deployment, and operations across Azure, AWS, GCP, or hybrid environments.
- Shape architecture for Kubernetes, containers, CI/CD, DevSecOps, infrastructure-as-code, automation, and observability.
- Enable secure, highly available platform services, APIs, identity capabilities, and self-service developer experiences.
- Establish approaches for reliability, performance, disaster recovery, and operational readiness at scale.
- Drive Innovation and Organizational Influence
- Evaluate emerging technologies and lead proofs of concept for strategic platform investments.
- Advance capabilities in AI/ML enablement, data integration, analytics, automation, and intelligent services.
- Partner with Engineering, Product, Security, Infrastructure, Operations, and Enterprise Architecture teams.
- Communicate architecture strategy, tradeoffs, and decisions to technical and executive stakeholders.
- Mentor architects, principal engineers, technical leads, and senior engineers.
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