Expert Architect

One of the best-known names in cruising, Princess is the world’s leading international premium cruise line and tour company, carrying millions of guests each year to hundreds of destinations around the globe. We give our guests the Medallion Class experience others simply can’t. The Love Boat promises something for everyone. The Principal Enterprise Architect, Advanced Performance Monitoring and Middleware serves as the organization’s highest-level professional authority and global thought leader for application performance monitoring, enterprise observability, middleware, integration platforms, and operational telemetry. The role defines and materially shapes the long-term global technology strategy, enterprise architecture, governance model, and innovation agenda for these disciplines across a complex, multinational operating environment. This position applies broad and comprehensive expertise in leading-edge theories, technologies, and architectural practices to identify and solve the organization’s most complex and consequential technology challenges. The role establishes mandatory enterprise standards and target-state architectures that govern the design, reliability, scalability, security, resilience, and performance of mission-critical services supporting guest-facing, shipboard, shoreside, and corporate operations. The Principal Enterprise Architect leads the organization’s largest and most strategically significant multidisciplinary architecture and transformation initiatives, with impact across brands, business units, geographies, technology platforms, and external strategic partners. The role proactively identifies emerging technologies and creates innovative architecture models, engineering practices, and industry-leading solutions that influence the future direction of the organization and advance the broader observability and middleware profession. Operating with substantial autonomy, the role advises senior executives on technology strategy, enterprise risk, platform investments, and long-term capability development. The position represents the organization externally with technology providers, professional communities, industry forums, and strategic partners and is recognized as a leading authority in the field. Here’s a summary of what Princess is looking for in a Principal Enterprise Architect. Is this you?

Global Enterprise Architecture and Strategy Define, own, and materially shape the long-term global strategy, target-state architecture, and innovation roadmap for enterprise observability, application performance monitoring, middleware, integration, and telemetry capabilities. Serve as the organization’s highest technical authority for these disciplines, establishing mandatory architecture principles, enterprise standards, reference architectures, governance requirements, and investment priorities. Translate enterprise business strategy, operational priorities, and emerging industry developments into multiyear technology strategies that shape the future direction of mission-critical platforms and services. Determine the objectives and architectural direction for the organization’s most complex technology assignments and independently design innovative solutions where established methods or industry precedent do not exist. Advise senior executives on significant technology investments, strategic risks, emerging capabilities, and decisions affecting the long-term reliability, resilience, scalability, and competitiveness of the business. Represent the organization as an external thought leader through strategic technology partnerships, professional forums, industry working groups, and relationships with leading technology providers. Create and promote innovative architecture practices and technology capabilities that establish new standards for the organization and contribute to the advancement of the observability, middleware, and enterprise architecture professions.