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INTRODUCTION
AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together advances in cloud infrastructure, automation and analytics, and software delivery, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation.
At AHEAD, we prioritize creating a culture of belonging, where all perspectives and voices are represented, valued, respected, and heard. We create spaces to empower everyone to speak up, make change, and drive the culture at AHEAD.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and do not discriminate based on an individual's race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived.
We embrace all candidates that will contribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives at AHEAD.
AHEAD is seeking a Principal Observability & Reliability Architect to join AHEAD’s Observability Practice within Intelligent Operations. This is a senior, client-facing architecture and delivery leadership role focused on helping enterprise clients improve operational visibility, service reliability, incident response, telemetry governance, and business-service visibility. The role operates as a player-coach, pairing senior advisory leadership with hands-on architecture guidance across observability platforms, telemetry pipelines, AIOps, and SRE-aligned operating models. It spans the full engagement lifecycle: pursuit solutioning, discovery, architecture design, estimation, delivery governance, escalation, and practice enablement.
Responsibilities
- Lead client discovery, architecture workshops, and solution design across observability, telemetry, reliability, and operational intelligence initiatives.
- Design enterprise observability architectures spanning monitoring, logging, metrics, tracing, telemetry pipelines, alerting, event correlation, service visibility, and platform integrations.
- Define scalable standards for telemetry onboarding, naming, tagging, RBAC, service ownership, dashboards, alert governance, runbooks, and operational handoff.
- Advise on telemetry governance, including data quality, retention, access control, sampling, cardinality, and cost optimization.
- Lead modernization initiatives including tool rationalization, dashboard and alert rationalization, telemetry strategy, and migration from legacy monitoring platforms.
- Guide SRE practices including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, production readiness, and incident response maturity.
- Design integration patterns across ITSM, CMDB, event management, and automation platforms.
- Support pursuits by shaping solution strategy, validating scope, informing estimates, and building client-facing technical narratives.
- Serve as a senior escalation point and provide architecture governance during delivery.
- Build reusable reference architectures, playbooks, and accelerators while mentoring architects, consultants, and offshore teams.
QUALIFICATIONS
- 10+ years in observability, monitoring, APM, platform operations, SRE, or related enterprise technology domains, including 5+ years leading architecture and delivery strategy for enterprise observability or reliability initiatives.
- Deep, hands-on experience designing and implementing across monitoring, logging, metrics, tracing, telemetry collection, and pipeline patterns in hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
- Strong knowledge of telemetry governance, including routing, transformation, normalization, enrichment, retention, access control, and cost management.
- Experience defining enterprise standards for dashboards, alerts, tagging, naming, service ownership, RBAC, and operating model adoption.
- Strong command of incident response, event correlation, alert strategy, service health, and business-service visibility, plus applied SRE concepts including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and production readiness.
- Ability to lead executive and technical workshops and translate business needs into actionable architecture and delivery plans.
- Consulting or professional services experience with strong client-facing communication, estimation, risk management, and cross-functional leadership.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Platform experience such as Dynatrace, Splunk, Grafana, LogicMonitor, Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Elastic, Prometheus, or OpenTelemetry.
- Experience with telemetry pipeline tools such as OpenTelemetry Collector, Grafana Alloy, Fluent Bit, Kafka, Cribl, or Vector, along with familiarity with cloud, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code.
- Experience integrating with platforms such as ServiceNow, Jira Service Management, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, BigPanda, or xMatters.
- Experience developing reusable consulting assets such as reference architectures, governance models, playbooks, POVs, and accelerators; relevant cloud, SRE, ITIL, or FinOps certifications are a plus.
The compensation range indicated in this posting reflects the On-Target Earnings (“OTE”) for this role, which includes a base salary and any applicable target bonus amount. This OTE range may vary based on the candidate’s relevant experience, qualifications, and geographic location.
Why AHEAD:
Through our daily work and internal groups like Moving Women AHEAD and RISE AHEAD, we value and benefit from diversity of people, ideas, experience, and everything in between.
We fuel growth by stacking our office with top-notch technologies in a multi-million-dollar lab, by encouraging cross department training and development, sponsoring certifications and credentials for continued learning.
USA Employment Benefits include:
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- 401(k)
- Paid company holidays
- Paid time off
- Paid parental and caregiver leave
- Plus more! See benefits for additional details.
Use of AI:
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, assessing responses, or to capture recordings and create transcriptions or summaries during interviews. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans.
If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please refer to the Candidate Privacy Notice or contact us at privacy@ahead.com.
You may opt-out of the review or analysis of your application and resume by AI tools by using the General Application. Please include the role you wish to apply for in the Additional Information field. You may also choose to opt-out of recording and transcription at any time, including after joining an interview. Candidates will not be penalized for choosing to opt-out.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
INTRODUCTION
AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together advances in cloud infrastructure, automation and analytics, and software delivery, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation.
At AHEAD, we prioritize creating a culture of belonging, where all perspectives and voices are represented, valued, respected, and heard. We create spaces to empower everyone to speak up, make change, and drive the culture at AHEAD.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and do not discriminate based on an individual's race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived.
We embrace all candidates that will contribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives at AHEAD.
AHEAD is seeking a Principal Observability & Reliability Architect to join AHEAD’s Observability Practice within Intelligent Operations. This is a senior, client-facing architecture and delivery leadership role focused on helping enterprise clients improve operational visibility, service reliability, incident response, telemetry governance, and business-service visibility. The role operates as a player-coach, pairing senior advisory leadership with hands-on architecture guidance across observability platforms, telemetry pipelines, AIOps, and SRE-aligned operating models. It spans the full engagement lifecycle: pursuit solutioning, discovery, architecture design, estimation, delivery governance, escalation, and practice enablement.
Responsibilities
- Lead client discovery, architecture workshops, and solution design across observability, telemetry, reliability, and operational intelligence initiatives.
- Design enterprise observability architectures spanning monitoring, logging, metrics, tracing, telemetry pipelines, alerting, event correlation, service visibility, and platform integrations.
- Define scalable standards for telemetry onboarding, naming, tagging, RBAC, service ownership, dashboards, alert governance, runbooks, and operational handoff.
- Advise on telemetry governance, including data quality, retention, access control, sampling, cardinality, and cost optimization.
- Lead modernization initiatives including tool rationalization, dashboard and alert rationalization, telemetry strategy, and migration from legacy monitoring platforms.
- Guide SRE practices including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, production readiness, and incident response maturity.
- Design integration patterns across ITSM, CMDB, event management, and automation platforms.
- Support pursuits by shaping solution strategy, validating scope, informing estimates, and building client-facing technical narratives.
- Serve as a senior escalation point and provide architecture governance during delivery.
- Build reusable reference architectures, playbooks, and accelerators while mentoring architects, consultants, and offshore teams.
QUALIFICATIONS
- 10+ years in observability, monitoring, APM, platform operations, SRE, or related enterprise technology domains, including 5+ years leading architecture and delivery strategy for enterprise observability or reliability initiatives.
- Deep, hands-on experience designing and implementing across monitoring, logging, metrics, tracing, telemetry collection, and pipeline patterns in hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
- Strong knowledge of telemetry governance, including routing, transformation, normalization, enrichment, retention, access control, and cost management.
- Experience defining enterprise standards for dashboards, alerts, tagging, naming, service ownership, RBAC, and operating model adoption.
- Strong command of incident response, event correlation, alert strategy, service health, and business-service visibility, plus applied SRE concepts including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and production readiness.
- Ability to lead executive and technical workshops and translate business needs into actionable architecture and delivery plans.
- Consulting or professional services experience with strong client-facing communication, estimation, risk management, and cross-functional leadership.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Platform experience such as Dynatrace, Splunk, Grafana, LogicMonitor, Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Elastic, Prometheus, or OpenTelemetry.
- Experience with telemetry pipeline tools such as OpenTelemetry Collector, Grafana Alloy, Fluent Bit, Kafka, Cribl, or Vector, along with familiarity with cloud, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code.
- Experience integrating with platforms such as ServiceNow, Jira Service Management, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, BigPanda, or xMatters.
- Experience developing reusable consulting assets such as reference architectures, governance models, playbooks, POVs, and accelerators; relevant cloud, SRE, ITIL, or FinOps certifications are a plus.
The compensation range indicated in this posting reflects the On-Target Earnings (“OTE”) for this role, which includes a base salary and any applicable target bonus amount. This OTE range may vary based on the candidate’s relevant experience, qualifications, and geographic location.
Why AHEAD:
Through our daily work and internal groups like Moving Women AHEAD and RISE AHEAD, we value and benefit from diversity of people, ideas, experience, and everything in between.
We fuel growth by stacking our office with top-notch technologies in a multi-million-dollar lab, by encouraging cross department training and development, sponsoring certifications and credentials for continued learning.
USA Employment Benefits include:
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- 401(k)
- Paid company holidays
- Paid time off
- Paid parental and caregiver leave
- Plus more! See benefits for additional details.
Use of AI:
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, assessing responses, or to capture recordings and create transcriptions or summaries during interviews. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans.
If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please refer to the Candidate Privacy Notice or contact us at privacy@ahead.com.
You may opt-out of the review or analysis of your application and resume by AI tools by using the General Application. Please include the role you wish to apply for in the Additional Information field. You may also choose to opt-out of recording and transcription at any time, including after joining an interview. Candidates will not be penalized for choosing to opt-out.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
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Who's Hiring
- Humana63
- Speechify63
- CVS Health49
- Akumin20
- Sentara20
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software355
- Healthcare & Medical Services155
- Insurance87
- Consulting & Professional Services74
- Banking & Financial Services23
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote architect jobs.
- Bachelor's or Master of Architecture degree from an accredited program
- Proficiency in Revit and AutoCAD for design documentation and coordination
- Active architectural license or documented progress toward ARE completion
- Experience across multiple project phases from schematic design through construction administration
- LEED accreditation or demonstrated familiarity with sustainable design principles
- Strong verbal and written communication skills for client presentations and consultant coordination
Tips for Your Remote Architect Job Search
Tailor your portfolio to the firm type
Boutique residential firms and large commercial practices look for very different work samples. Lead with two or three projects that match the firm's focus, and annotate each one with your specific role, the program size, and the delivery phase you owned.
List your licensure status precisely
Many postings filter candidates by licensure. State whether you are a registered architect, an architectural intern, or ARE-in-progress, and list every state where you hold a license. Ambiguity here gets resumes skipped before a human reads them.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists architect openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Match your software stack to the posting
Revit, AutoCAD, Rhino, SketchUp, and Enscape each signal different project types. Read the required and preferred tools in the job description and mirror that language in your resume skills section, using the exact product names the firm uses.
Prepare a project narrative for interviews
Interviewers at architecture firms ask you to walk through a project from brief to construction administration. Practice a two-minute version that covers the design challenge, your decision-making process, any value-engineering moments, and the built outcome.
Negotiate scope before you negotiate salary
Project type, delivery method, and client mix shape your long-term career more than starting pay. Before accepting an offer, ask which projects you would own, what the firm's BIM standards look like, and whether you would have client-facing responsibility in the first year.
Remote Architect Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote architect job?
Target companies that already run distributed teams, since they hire remotely by default and know how to onboard someone they never meet in person. Remote architect employers screen hard for self-direction and clear written communication on top of the core skills, so show evidence you can own work without someone over your shoulder. Apply to the openings above that match your experience.
Which companies hire remote architects?
Companies hiring remote architects include Humana, Speechify, and CVS Health, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of June 2026. Remote-first firms and large companies running distributed teams post the most remote architect roles.
Can you get a remote architect job with no experience?
Yes, but it is harder than an on-site role, because remote work expects you to operate independently from the start. Entry-level remote architect openings do exist, especially at remote-first companies, and a portfolio of real work helps more than a long resume. Applying broadly to the roles that fit improves your odds.
Do you need a degree for remote architect jobs?
Not always. Many employers hire remote architects on demonstrated skills and prior work rather than a specific degree, though some larger companies still prefer one. Showing relevant results matters more than a credential for most remote architect roles.
Which industries hire the most remote architects?
Remote architect roles concentrate in Technology & Software, Healthcare & Medical Services, and Insurance, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of June 2026. These sectors run distributed teams and hire architects remotely most consistently.
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