Principal Architect

OWT is a strategy and technology consulting firm that works with Anthropic on Alpha Factory, Switzerland’s first centre of excellence for human‑centred AI adoption. The company is expanding its expert team and seeks a Principal Architect to operate from either the Lausanne or Geneva office, guiding transformation for leading Swiss organisations. In this role you will design and deliver cloud‑native, secure solutions that scale, incorporating containerised architectures and CI/CD pipelines enriched with AI capabilities. You will steer the full architectural lifecycle—from pre‑sales discussions through to production rollout—ensuring projects meet deadlines and client expectations. Your duties include setting strategic architectural direction, acting as the technical bridge between teams and stakeholders, and producing documentation such as architectural decision records and guidelines. You will also stay hands‑on by reviewing code, building proofs of concept, designing AI pipelines, and maintaining overall technical coherence, while mentoring colleagues and monitoring emerging AI technologies. The position requires more than ten years of experience in software architecture on large‑scale initiatives, with solid knowledge of modern patterns like microservices, event‑driven, hexagonal and clean architecture, as well as design principles such as SOLID and DDD. A genuine enthusiasm for AI and practical work with LLM APIs, retrieval‑augmented generation pipelines, and agentic systems is essential. Candidates must be proficient in either Java Spring Boot or .NET, and have built resilient systems using Docker, Kubernetes and cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS. Proven technical leadership, stakeholder management, and communication across business and IT are mandatory, together with hands‑on DevSec