Principal Architect Azure AI - 3pillarglobal

3Pillar is an AI transformation partner on a mission to help enterprises build the AI-native products and intelligent agents that will define the next era of business. With teams across North America, Europe, Latin America, and Asia, we work with the most ambitious companies in financial services, healthcare, media, and technology — helping them move faster, modernize boldly, and compete on their own terms. Our HelixAI platform and Helix Pods delivery model put our engineers at the center of real agentic transformation — doing work that is open, portable, and built to last. We are building the future of enterprise AI.

Enterprise Architect (AI)

🌟 Distinguished Tech Innovator:

3Pillar warmly extends an invitation for you to join an elite team of visionaries. Beyond software development, we are dedicated to engineering solutions that challenge conventional norms. Envision you: steering projects that redefine urban living, establishing new media channels for enterprise companies, or driving innovation in healthcare. Your invaluable expertise will serve as the cornerstone in shaping the future direction of our endeavors.

This role is the foremost technical authority within a technology stack. The Enterprise Architect (AI) not only owns high-level design decisions and technical standards - they define the architectural vision that shapes how 3Pillar engineers build and how our clients compete. The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker and practitioner in equal measure, as comfortable advising executive stakeholders on technology investment as they are resolving the toughest architectural governance challenges on the ground.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Act as the emissary of the architecture and own the design authority: Lead the Architecture Review Board (ARB) to ensure technical alignment, compliance, and standardization across the enterprise portfolio.

Define 3Pillar’s AI architecture vision and engineering standards, establishing the patterns and governance frameworks that Solution Architects, Tech Leads, and engineers across the organization follow.

Own the Azure Cloud and Data Standards: Serve as a deep Azure-native expert at the reference-architecture altitude. Define the sanctioned Azure landing-zone, the Fabric data standard, and the sanctioned Azure AI consumption patterns. Design and oversee modern data architectures that fuel AI systems, leveraging Data Lakehouse paradigms and integrating native tools like Microsoft Fabric and Azure SQL to ensure seamless data flows and high-performance querying.

Build the Enterprise Reference Architectures and Reusable Patterns Library: Drive original IP creation by defining and governing concrete, reusable architectural frameworks and internal tooling that increase 3Pillar’s competitive advantage. Make these patterns concrete by establishing multi-tenant isolation for regulated data, PII-segregated AI, and audit/provenance controls for fed