Principal Architect (Remote)

Who You Are

You are a

highly

experienced technology strategist, consultant, or principal architect with 15+ years of experience advising enterprise organizations and engaging CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, and other senior technology leaders. They bring broad knowledge across infrastructure, cloud, cybersecurity, networking, data center, AI, automation, and managed services, along with the ability to translate complex technology trends into clear business strategies, executive roadmaps, and practical transformation initiatives.

About The Role

The Principal Architect is a senior client-facing technology leader responsible for helping Myriad360's clients understand, prioritize, and navigate major technology shifts while connecting those priorities to practical business outcomes.

The Principal Architect operates at the intersection of technology strategy, executive advisory, account development, and solution orchestration. This role works closely with Account Executives, Client Solution Architects, Specialists, Practice leaders, Professional Services, Managed Services, and strategic technology partners to deepen executive relationships, shape strategic opportunities, and expand Myriad360's relevance within key accounts.

Unlike a CSA, who typically leads broad technical discovery and orchestrates active pursuits, the Principal Architect is focused on executive-level technology strategy, thought leadership, account influence, and long-range opportunity creation.

Must be based in the United States.

Other responsibilities include:

Executive Client Advisory

Serve as a trusted technology advisor to CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, infrastructure leaders, and other senior client stakeholders.

Lead executive-level conversations around technology strategy, transformation priorities, risk, modernization, and emerging technology.

Help clients translate complex technology shifts into practical business decisions.

Facilitate executive workshops, strategy sessions, roadmap discussions, and innovation briefings.

Build long-term relationships that extend beyond individual products, projects, or vendors.

Strategic Account Development

Partner with Account Executives and CSAs to

identify

where executive engagement can materially expand the client relationship.

Support strategic account planning by helping

identify

technology priorities, executive initiatives, transformation programs, organizational challenges, competitive threats, technical debt, and whitespace opportunities.

Help move client conversations from tactical purchases toward multi-year strategic relationships.

Create new opportunities by introducing ideas, perspectives, and solutions the client may not yet be considering.

Technology Strategy & Thought Leadership

Maintain strong awareness of major enterprise technology trends and translate them into relevant client conversations.

• Provide thought leadership across Enterprise AI, AI infrastructure, RAG and agentic AI, data center modernization, networking, cybersecurity, hybrid cloud, automation and observability, platform engineering, Managed Services, Enterprise Service Management, and operating
• -model transformation.

Develop clear points of view on where technologies are headed and how they may affect client strategy.

Represent Myriad360 in executive briefings, client events, industry panels, technology summits, webinars, and partner engagements.

Opportunity Creation & Expansion

Help identify strategic opportunities before they become formal projects or RFPs.

Partner with Sales and CSA leadership to turn executive conversations into actionable opportunities.

Connect strategic client initiatives to Myriad360 capabilities across advisory, infrastructure, security, cloud, AI, Professional Services, Managed Services, and

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Services.

Help broaden opportunities beyond

an initial

technology request by considering the complete client lifecycle.

Cross-Functional Solution Orchestration

Work closely with CSAs to ensure executive strategy translates into technical discovery and execution.

Bring together

appropriate Specialists

, Practice leaders, Professional Services, Managed Services, and partners for strategic opportunities.

Avoid becoming the technical owner for every pursuit; instead, help ensure the right expertise is engaged.

Support complex, multi-practice opportunities where executive context and technical strategy are critical to success.

CSA & Sales Enablement

Help CSAs and Sales teams elevate client conversations beyond products and features.

Coach teams on executive communication, technology storytelling, business outcome alignment, strategic discovery, opportunity creation, whiteboarding, and workshop facilitation.

Share repeatable client insights, market trends, and strategic plays across the organization.

Help build confidence among technical teams in engaging senior client executives.

OEM & Ecosystem Engagement

Build strong relationships with CTOs, Chief Architects,

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C

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s, and technical executives across strategic OEM partners.

Bring OEM insights, roadmaps, and innovation into relevant client conversations.

Help

identify

where Myriad360 can create differentiated joint solutions with strategic partners.

• Participate in executive briefings and joint account strategy where appropriate
• .

Voice of the Client

Bring market and client feedback back into Myriad360 leadership.

Identify

recurring client challenges, emerging needs, and gaps in

Myriad360's

capabilities.

Help influence service development, practice strategy, technology investment, partner strategy, enablement priorities, and the Managed Services roadmap.

Provide leadership with a practical

fie

l

d

perspective on where client demand is moving.

Complete ongoing security awareness training and

comply with

company policies to the requirements section.

Identify

and escalate security risks to the

appropriate Executive

Leadership Team member and actively contribute to remediation efforts.

Other duties as assigned.

Business Impact & Measurement

The

Principal Architect

should have meaningful business accountability without becoming a traditional quota-carrying overlay. Success should be measured through strategic influence and the business outcomes created from executive engagement.

Executive client relationships created or expanded

Strategic account engagement

Executive workshops and advisory sessions

Opportunities proactively created

Influenced pipeline

Opportunity expansion

Cross-practice opportunity creation

Professional Services and Managed Services attach

Strategic account penetration

Executive sponsorship within major accounts

Client retention and expansion

OEM executive relationships

Thought leadership contributions

Client feedback and market intelligence

Enablement and coaching impact across Sales and CSA teams

Leadership Expectations

Operate comfortably with CIO, CTO, CISO, and senior technology executives.

Communicate complex technology in clear business language.

Build trust without relying on a sales pitch.

Be intellectually curious across multiple technology domains.

Have enough technical depth to

establish

credibility while knowing when to bring in deeper

expertise

.

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