# Principal Solutions Architect at Nexus Cognitive

- Company: Nexus Cognitive
- What the company does: The composable, out-of-the-box data architecture that gives organizations complete freedom to build, adapt, and scale any data workload — from legacy databases to real-time AI pipelines — without vendor lock-in. Backed by Insight.
- Company website: https://www.nexuscognitive.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Remote - US
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-07-27
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/nexus-cognitive/edfeed4e-ed89-4bd1-bb23-cda703844c3f
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/nexus-cognitive-principal-solutions-architect/

## About the role

Produce high-quality design documents that hold up to hostile review boards without you in the room Own escalation leadership when something breaks — you're the person in the room

## What they're looking for

- 12–18 years in enterprise data/cloud architecture as an SA, principal engineer, or equivalent
- At least one prior multi-year embedded engagement at a Tier 1 bank or equivalent regulated enterprise — you know what it means to be a vendor inside another organization's culture for 12+ months
- Hands-on or recent hands-on depth in the modern OSS data stack: Spark, Trino, Airflow, Iceberg, Kubernetes, S3-compatible object storage, Kafka — at petabyte scale, with hundreds of pipelines
- Experience producing and defending design documents in front of hostile architecture review boards
- Track record of identifying expansion or net-new use cases through architectural insight at a large customer — named examples of "I saw the customer's next workload before they did, qualified it, and partnered with sales to expand"
- Willingness to be on-site in Charlotte, NC (primary) and NYC (secondary) at 80%+ cadence

Tags: Customer Delivery and Operations