Principal, Platform Architecture

The OCC

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Chicago Posted 45 days ago $178,700–$289,100 / year
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The Principal Platform Architect at OCC leads the design and implementation of critical infrastructure for both legacy and cloud-native environments, focusing on Kubernetes, Kafka, Flink, and AWS services. This senior role involves defining technical direction, establishing platform standards, and ensuring resilience and scalability across all workloads. Responsibilities include leading proof-of-concept efforts, driving GitOps practices, and collaborating with engineering teams to ensure buildable and operable designs. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in Kubernetes cluster architecture, Kafka deployments, AWS services, and observability tooling, along with a background in financial services and regulatory compliance like Regulation SCI.

Skills

Kubernetes AWS GitOps CI/CD Terraform Docker Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry Apache_Kafka Apache_Flink Unix/Linux Jenkins GitHub_Actions VPC IAM EC2 EKS MSK S3 CloudWatch

What you'll do

  • Define and own the technical direction for OCC’s core platform capabilities.
  • Lead architecture design for container orchestration, streaming infrastructure, and cloud services.
  • Develop and maintain target-state platform architectures with clear transition plans.
  • Establish platform architecture standards and guardrails for application teams.
  • Architect migration of workloads to cloud-native patterns on AWS.
  • Evaluate and recommend platform technologies; lead proof-of-concept efforts.
  • Ensure non-functional requirements are addressed at the platform level.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years of experience in enterprise-scale platform architecture roles.
  • Deep hands-on expertise with Kubernetes and AWS foundational services.
  • Practical experience architecting Apache Kafka deployments and stream processing frameworks.
  • Demonstrated ability to design and implement GitOps pipelines using tools like Flux, ArgoCD, Terraform.
  • Strong communication skills for presenting technical decisions to executive audiences.

Market check

Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $202k
This role $234k
$130k most similar roles pay here $306k

This role pays more than 71% of similar roles. Most pay $169,225–$235,750 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $234k versus about $202k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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About The OCC

The OCC (Options Clearing Corporation) is the world''s largest equity derivatives clearing organization, acting as issuer and guarantor for options and futures contracts to promote stability and market integrity. Industry: Financial Clearing & Derivatives

The OCC currently has 24 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $140,800–$208,300 across 24 roles with salary data.

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