Principal Architect Resume Example

Principal Architect, Enterprise Data & AI · Capital One

Plano, TX · 2019 - Present

• Led the architectural design and implementation of a new real-time fraud detection platform, processing over 10,000 transactions/second with 99.99% uptime, reducing fraud losses by 15% ($50M+ annually).
• Architected a scalable data lakehouse solution on AWS, unifying petabytes of customer and transactional data, improving data query performance by 40% and enabling new ML model development.
• Championed adoption of MLOps best practices, establishing automated pipelines for model training, deployment, and monitoring across 50+ production ML models, decreasing deployment time by 60%.
• Drove cost optimization initiatives on cloud infrastructure, reducing annual spending on data processing and storage by 20% through efficient resource utilization and architectural redesigns.

Senior Data Architect · Fidelity Investments

Dallas, TX · 2015 - 2019

• Designed and implemented a distributed streaming data platform using Kafka and Spark for real-time portfolio analytics, handling over 5TB of daily financial market data.
• Developed data governance frameworks and security protocols for sensitive financial data, ensuring compliance with industry regulations (FINRA, SEC) and achieving 100% audit success.
• Optimized existing ETL processes, reducing data processing time by an average of 35% and improving data availability for critical business intelligence dashboards.
• Mentored junior architects and engineers on best practices for data modeling, pipeline development, and performance tuning for large-scale data systems.

Data Engineer · Dell Technologies

Austin, TX · 2012 - 2015

• Built and maintained robust data pipelines for sales and marketing analytics using Hadoop, Hive, and SQL, supporting quarterly business reviews for executive leadership.
• Developed automated data quality checks and monitoring tools, improving data accuracy by 25% and reducing manual data reconciliation efforts.
• Contributed to the design and implementation of an enterprise data warehouse, integrating data from disparate sources to provide a unified view of customer interactions.
• Implemented performance enhancements for database queries and data ingestion processes, resulting in a 15% reduction in report generation times.

M.S. in Computer Science · University of Texas at Austin

Austin, TX · 2010 - 2012

• GPA: 3.9/4.0
• Thesis: Scalable Machine Learning Models for Real-time Financial Anomaly Detection

B.S. in Computer Engineering · Texas A&M University

College Station, TX · 2006 - 2010

• Magna Cum Laude
• Dean's List 6 semesters

Principal Architect · Workday

Chicago, IL (Remote) · 2021 - Present

• Led architectural strategy for a new global HR analytics platform serving over 500 enterprise clients, reducing query latency by 35% and supporting 2x data volume growth.
• Mentored and guided 4 architecture teams across different product lines, establishing best practices for cloud migration and microservices adoption that improved release velocity by 20%.
• Designed and oversaw the implementation of a multi-cloud data governance framework, achieving 99.9% data compliance for sensitive customer information.
• Pioneered the adoption of FinOps principles across cloud infrastructure, resulting in a 15% reduction in annual cloud spend while enhancing service resilience.

Senior Solutions Architect · HERE Technologies

Chicago, IL · 2017 - 2021

• Architected scalable backend services for real-time traffic and location data, processing over 1 billion API calls daily with 99.99% uptime.
• Collaborated with product and engineering leads to define technical roadmaps, influencing product strategy for the next-generation mapping platform.
• Implemented a new CI/CD pipeline leveraging Kubernetes and ArgoCD, accelerating deployment cycles by 40% and reducing manual errors by 60%.
• Drove the adoption of event-driven architectures using Apache Kafka, improving system decoupling and enabling new data integration capabilities across 10+ teams.

Senior Software Engineer, Technical Lead · Trading Technologies

Chicago, IL · 2014 - 2017

• Led a team of 5 engineers in developing high-performance trading algorithms and execution systems, improving transaction speeds by 25% for critical trading functions.
• Redesigned a core component of the order management system, decreasing memory footprint by 30% and enabling support for 50% more concurrent users.
• Implemented automated testing frameworks and code quality standards, reducing production defects by 18% over two years.
• Mentored junior engineers on best practices in C++ and distributed system design, improving team code delivery efficiency by 15%.

M.S. in Computer Science · Georgia Institute of Technology

Atlanta, GA · 2012 - 2014

• GPA: 3.9/4.0, Dean's List recipient for academic excellence.

B.E. in Electrical Engineering · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Urbana, IL · 2008 - 2012

• Graduated Magna Cum Laude, GPA: 3.8/4.0.
• Recipient of the Engineering Merit Scholarship for four consecutive years.