Principal Architect - Data & AI at SHI
Olympia, WA
$200,000–$250,000from the description
Aug 11, 2026
Olympia, WA
Sep 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A Principal Architect role at a large IT solutions consultancy, responsible for leading technical delivery across multi-disciplinary data and AI engagements — spanning data engineering, data visualization, data governance, and AI — while also maturing practice-wide delivery standards, accelerators, and frameworks. The position is a player-coach without direct reports, requiring deep expertise in at least one data discipline and working command of the others, with hands-on experience in the Microsoft data and AI ecosystem.
Principal level · 10+ years · Remote · Full-time
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What the occupation pays Median $142,568 (middle half $111,775–$173,013). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Aug 12, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The role spans data engineering, data visualization, data governance, and AI — it is genuinely cross-disciplinary. 15-1243 (Database Architects) was chosen as the primary SOC because data architecture and pipeline design is the broadest common thread, but 15-2051 (Data Scientists) is a plausible runner-up given the AI/ML scope.
No specific work location is stated in the posting; the role requires travel to SHI, partner, and customer sites but no primary city or metro is identified, so no CBSA is set.
The Microsoft ecosystem skills (Fabric, Azure data services, Power BI, Purview, Copilot Studio, Foundry) are listed together as a single 'which may include' clause under required qualifications, indicating the candidate needs hands-on experience within the ecosystem but not necessarily every named product. They are extracted individually with the required/preferred flag reflecting their placement in the requirements section; Purview, Copilot Studio, and Foundry are marked preferred because the posting frames them as illustrative examples aligned to the candidate's area of depth rather than universal gates.
Microsoft certifications (PL-300, DP-600, DP-700, DP-750, GH-300, GH-600, AI-901) appear under 'Preferred Skills and Experience' and are not extracted as individual skills since they are credentials rather than concrete technologies; their presence is noted here.
The compensation range of $200,000–$250,000 includes base salary plus bonus, as stated in the posting.
A Bachelor's degree in a related technical field is listed, but the posting explicitly accepts 'equivalent professional experience' as a substitute, so the degree requirement is set to None.
Ignored 2 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): Data Engineering, Data Governance.
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