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. Responsibilities also include setting strategic architectural direction, acting as the technical bridge between teams and stakeholders, and producing documentation such as architectural decision records and guidelines. Active development work is expected, covering code reviews, proof‑of‑concepts, AI pipeline design and critical component implementation, while maintaining overall technical coherence. You will also help raise internal capability by mentoring colleagues, monitoring AI technology trends and promoting best‑practice improvements. 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 hands‑on work with LLM APIs, retrieval‑augmented generation pipelines and agentic systems is essential. Candidates must have a strong background in either Java Spring Boot or .NET, and proven ability to build resilient systems using Docker, Kubernetes and cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS.