Principal Software Architect
Role Overview
The Principal Software Architect at Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions will lead the design and implementation of major retail platforms, ensuring high-impact solutions meet business requirements. This senior role involves mentoring teams, making critical architectural decisions, and overseeing both discovery and delivery tracks in an Agile environment, ultimately driving engineering excellence in the retail domain.
Perks & Benefits
This position is primarily remote but requires candidates to reside within the Seattle metropolitan area for occasional on-site engagements. The role offers opportunities for professional growth in a dynamic environment, emphasizing innovative solutions while maintaining operational integrity. The culture encourages collaboration and the integration of cutting-edge AI tools to enhance development processes.
Full Job Description
Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions is seeking a hands-on Principal Software Architect to lead end-to-end solution delivery for major retail platforms. This position is primarily remote, with the expectation of regular on-site engagement at client locations throughout the greater Seattle, Washington area. Candidates must reside within the Seattle metropolitan region. In this role, you will own architecture leadership (design, trade-offs, governance), active implementation (mentoring, code reviews, select hands-on features), and operational ownership (delivery sign-off, post-release support) of high-impact solutions, bridging business requirements to working implementations. You will drive Dual-Track Agile processes, guiding the Discovery Track for clarity and design exploration, and the Delivery Track to ensure quality, traceability, and measurable outcomes. The ideal candidate combines deep architecture expertise with hands-on coding, practical prototyping, and AI/agent workflow integration across the software lifecycle—from analysis and design to testing, documentation, and code generation. You will mentor teams, make critical technical trade-offs, and take full accountability for delivery sign-off and post-release support. This role requires strong retail platform domain knowledge (POS systems, store operations), cloud-native architecture experience, and fluency with generative and agentic AI tools to accelerate development while preserving architectural integrity. You will be a key driver of engineering excellence, ensuring solutions are both innovative and operationally robust.
Key Responsibilities
Instrument and leverage AI/agentic workflows to accelerate design, prototyping, code generation, test-case creation, specification drafting, and automated validation across the software lifecycle. AI-assisted development oversight, ethical compliance, and integration of generative AI tools. Own end-to-end solution delivery across Discovery and Delivery TrPlease mention the word **INVENTIVE** and tag RMTQyLjEzMi4yMTcuMjMw when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMTQyLjEzMi4yMTcuMjMw). This is a beta feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.