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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 55 days Zafin's roles stay open a median of 25 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 34% of Zafin's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Zafin
- high 14 stale, 2 reposted of 32 open
- Hiring momentum
- 48 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-27
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Zafin's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Zafin.
About this role
The Principal Architect at Zafin is a senior technical leadership role focused on defining and maintaining architectural standards for the AI Operating System (AIOS) across client engagements. This position involves providing architectural leadership, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards, and mentoring junior architects while overseeing the development of reusable architecture and integration patterns. The role requires collaboration with various squads to drive the adoption of platform standards and to address technical debt in architecture.
- benefits
- 5/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 5/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Zafin as an employer.
What you need
- 15+ years of experience in enterprise technology delivery, including senior leadership or executive client-facing roles.
- Experience designing enterprise-scale AI platforms incorporating agentic AI, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), orchestration frameworks, API ecosystems, and cloud-native architectures.
- Experience providing technical leadership across multiple enterprise transformations simultaneously.
- Deep expertise in agent orchestration frameworks, integration architecture, API design, and enterprise software architecture patterns.
- Demonstrated experience defining and scaling reusable technical standards across multiple teams or at an enterprise scale.
- Strong grounding in security and data governance patterns for AI/ML systems in regulated environments.
Nice to have
- Prior experience as a Principal Architect, Chief Architect, at a software/SaaS or AI company.
- Experience with Azure AI, AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, Open AI, Anthropic or comparable enterprise AI ecosystems.
- Track record of building reusable component libraries or platforms that drove measurable adoption and reduced duplicate engineering effort.
- Experience with enterprise architecture governance frameworks.
- Background in financial services technology or regulated industries.
What you get
- Fully company-paid health benefits
- Annual bonus opportunities
- Generous vacation and holidays
- RRSP matching
- Employer-paid insurance coverage
- Wellness resources
Worth weighing
- No salary listed
- Role involves significant influence without direct authority over engineers
- Hybrid work mode may require flexibility in work location.
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Listed by Zafin on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-27. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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