# Principal Digital Architect > Diversified Services Network, Inc. · United States (Remote) · Full-time · Posted 2026-06-26 **Salary:** USD 125,000–130,000 **Workplace:** remote ## Description Diversified Services Network, Inc. (DSN) is seeking a full-time **Principal Digital Architect** to join our team! We offer full benefits, PTO, 401k, and more! This is a fully remote role for candidates residing in the US, with a preferred location near **Chicago, IL or Peoria, IL.** If you are a seasoned architect ready to own end-to-end solutions for complex systems and influence enterprise technology strategy within an extremely reputable, stable Fortune 500 company — let’s talk! ### Position Overview We are seeking a Principal Digital Architect to play a key role owning end-to-end architecture solutions for complex systems - balancing scalability, performance, security, and rapid delivery - while influencing enterprise technology strategy. This role requires strong technical depth, architectural judgment, and the ability to translate ambiguous business needs into durable, scalable solutions. You will join a team of 18. ### Key Contributions & Responsibilities - Own and define solution and platform architectures for large-scale, distributed systems from concept through production, meeting high standards for scalability, performance, resilience, and security. - Partner closely with business leaders, product owners, engineering managers, and delivery teams to ensure architectural alignment with business outcomes. - Assess, select, and introduce new technologies, including proof of concept development and architectural spikes. - Establish and enforce architectural standards, patterns, and best practices across platform teams; provide architectural guidance and mentorship to engineering teams. - Ensure solutions meet security, compliance, and regulatory requirements; produce and maintain clear architecture documentation, including rationale and trade-offs. - Continuously evolve platform architecture to improve developer productivity, system reliability, and cost efficiency. ### Team Structure & Work Environment - You will be part of a team of 18, partnering closely with business leaders, product owners, engineering managers, and delivery teams. ## Requirements ### Education & Experience - Bachelor’s degree required with 5+ years of relevant experience. ### Required Technical Skills - Architectural thinking — ability to decompose complex problem spaces and develop pragmatic architecture options with clearly articulated trade-offs. - Technical leadership — ability to influence without authority and guide teams through architectural decisions and implementation challenges. - Strong communication skills — ability to clearly articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. - Requirements analysis — ability to translate business and non-functional requirements into scalable technical designs. - Platform and application architecture — strong foundation in designing modern application and platform architectures using established patterns and standards. ### Desired Technical Skills - Experience defining AI reference architectures and standards for enterprise adoption; ability to explain and defend architectural trade-offs between classical ML, LLM-based approaches, and non-AI solutions. - Proven experience taking AI systems from proof of concept to scaled production use, including hands-on Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) architecture design — data ingestion pipelines, document preprocessing/chunking strategies, vectorization and embedding models, and query-time retrieval, ranking, and context assembly. - Deep understanding of embedding techniques, similarity search, and related trade-offs (vector dimensions, chunk size/overlap, latency vs. recall vs. cost); experience with vector databases and search layers and their integration into application architectures. - Experience with agentic frameworks and the ability to architect end-to-end AI workflows, including prompt design and versioning, context management and memory patterns, and model routing/fallback strategies. - Knowledge of LLM lifecycle considerations — model selection (hosted vs. self-hosted), fine-tuning vs. RAG vs. hybrid approaches, and evaluation, monitoring, and drift detection. - Strong understanding of AI system non-functional requirements, including performance/latency optimization, cost controls and token efficiency, and security, data privacy, and guardrails. - Experience integrating AI capabilities into existing enterprise platforms via APIs and event-driven architectures; ability to assess, prototype, and productionize emerging AI technologies aligned to business use cases. - Strong programming background in Python and Java, with the ability to reason at the code level. - Proven experience designing and building enterprise-scale, distributed systems; hands-on experience with cloud-native architectures, including AWS services, containerization, and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes). - Deep understanding of data architecture, including SQL and NoSQL databases, data warehouses (Snowflake specifically), data modeling, replication, and sharding. - Experience with modern DevOps practices, including CI/CD, infrastructure as code, observability, and automated testing. - Strong API design experience (REST, GraphQL, gRPC), including versioning and documentation; ability to evaluate and introduce emerging technologies aligned to business goals. ## Benefits - 401(k) - Dental insurance - Vision Insurance - Disability insurance - Employee assistance program - Health insurance - Health savings account - Life insurance - Paid time off - Paid Holidays Please follow the link to our website for a list of job openings in Engineering, IT, Project Management, and more! [https://www.dsnworldwide.com](https://www.dsnworldwide.com) Compensation: $125,000 - 130,000 per year ## Apply [Apply at Diversified Services Network, Inc.](https://apply.workable.com/dsn/j/E8CCDDC91E/apply) --- Powered by [Workable](https://www.workable.com)