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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• 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.

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.

Ask strong questions and listen before prescribing solutions.

Lead with empathy and seek to understand the client's business and operating environment.

Think across organizational silos and technology practices.

Connect strategy to execution.

Create opportunities rather than wait for them.

Influence without formal authority.

Represent Myriad360 with credibility internally, externally, and across the partner ecosystem.

Model a One Team mindset across Sales, Pre-Sales, Services, PMO, Delivery, and the broader Myriad360 /

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Desired skills and experience:

15+ years of experience in enterprise technology, consulting, solution architecture, technology strategy, systems integration, or related roles.

Significant experience engaging with CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, and senior technology executives.

Broad knowledge across enterprise infrastructure, networking, cloud, cybersecurity, data center, automation, AI, and services.

Demonstrated ability to translate emerging technologies into practical business strategies.

Experience shaping complex enterprise technology programs and transformation initiatives.

Strong executive communication, facilitation, whiteboarding, and presentation skills.

Proven ability to influence strategic opportunities without owning the day-to-day pursuit.

Experience working across Sales, Pre-Sales, Professional Services, Managed Services, and Delivery organizations.

Strong understanding of technology partner and OEM ecosystems.

Experience at a national technology integrator, consulting company, VAR, MSP, or major enterprise technology provider.

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Experience developing executive technology roadmaps and strategic account plans.

Familiarity with Enterprise AI, AI infrastructure, RAG, agentic AI, automation, observability, hybrid cloud, and cybersecurity strategy.

Experience speaking at client events, industry panels, executive briefings, or technology conferences.

Experience helping create new offerings, services, or go-to-market motions based on fie l d demand.

A Little About Us

Our mission is to challenge and enable our employees to achieve great things.

We live and breathe our core values:

We Before Me:

We demonstrate empathy through our actions and solicit diverse voices and opinions. We put ourselves in each other’s shoes, readily admit our mistakes, and generously share our time and knowledge.

Dare To Be Great:

We are big-picture thinkers who focus on solutions to problems. We solicit and offer actionable feedback to others without hesitation. We embrace opportunities to improve ourselves, our teams, and our work. We aim to be the best of the best.

Own It:

We set clear expectations, communicate proactively, and follow through on our commitments. We take pride in the experiences we create and the outcomes we deliver. We are personally invested in the success of our team and our clients. We iterate to deliver ever better results.

We are consistently listed among Inc & Crain's "Best Places to Work" and we're proud of our accessible & engaged executive team. We believe in cultivating an atmosphere of inclusion and providing an environment that enables every employee to work to the best of their ability.

• Some of Our Benefits
• Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Incentive compensation plans for all employees
• Company-funded 401k contributions
• Zero-cost employer-covered health insurance
• Annual BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) reimbursement up to $500
• Paid Parental Leave
• Transparent, candid culture with 1:1 coaching, performance reviews, and a consistent feedback loop

Quirky, diverse, respectful, high-performing coworkers you’ll want to achieve greatness with!

Pursuant to the NYC Pay Transparency Law, the base salary range in New York City for this position is

$

250,000-350,000

, plus opportunities for profit-sharing bonus and/or commission. Compensation in other geographies may vary.